22 November, 2021 | Carpentry, Modernisation, Refurbishment, Shelving
This is a new set of shelving for a section of one of Eastbourne’s bars, the area needed to store significantly more glasses than it previously could. I built the shelving in 3 sections and then brought them to the site to install, the front edging was trimmed...
1 June, 2021 | Carpentry, Decking, Maintenance, Safety
I spotted this landing as being a potential safety risk whilst visiting my customer for another job. It gets regular use in the mornings as a great spot to have coffee with the paper. I have replaced it like-for-like, although, as ever, I’ve tried to do a better job...
28 May, 2021 | Carpentry, Door hanging, Fencing, Safety
One of my regular customers asked me to build them some gates. I used some high quality pressure treated timber, all glued and screwed together. I also used heavy duty ironmongery and modified the field latch to make it wider – I cut it and welded a new section...
9 May, 2021 | Carpentry, Picture hanging
I built some simple shelves for a customer to place their holiday pictures, they needed to be handled so mounting them on hooks wasn’t suitable, they will get painted by the customer.
24 April, 2021 | Carpentry, Fencing, Garden
This morning’s task was to build a slatted screen to hide the top part of a neighbours upvc conservatory. I installed 4 posts, I originally thought 3 would be fine but 4 lined up better with the window frames of the conservatory behind, then simply cut and...
16 April, 2021 | Carpentry, Flooring
This was a long morning’s work to install a new laminate floor, all materials were supplied by the client I was just needed for the skill and labour:
