19 May, 2024 | General Handyman, Vehicles, Windows
I fitted side windows in my last van so I got recommended as someone who could do it again! This VW transported needed side windows on the off-side, one in the tailgate, one in the rear quarter of the near-side and one in the near-side sliding door. You can see I used...
19 April, 2023 | General Handyman, Special projects
A friend has asked me to replicate a part that is currently unavailable for his second race bike, the original is aluminium, but to keep it slim and because I don’t currently weld ali I have made them from steel, there are 2x 8mm holes, 1 is threaded, and there...
6 March, 2023 | Detail, General Handyman, Maintenance
I’m not really a locksmith, but when you need to get a key for an old trunk lock and you can’t find another one the same on the internet, you either buy the closest match (which I couldn’t find) or make one yourself. I took an old 5 bar house key,...
22 September, 2022 | Flatpack, General Handyman
Here I built a childs bed and desk storage system from flatpack, actually I build two and some drawers sets but it was getting late and I didn’t want to be taking too many photos.
8 August, 2021 | Decorating, General Handyman, Maintenance
It’s been exactly 2 years to the day that I painted the Old Town Community Library, I thought it would just need a clean, but it definitely needed the new paint too, possibly because of the volume of local traffic, either way it was nice to be asked back. I also...
30 May, 2021 | General Handyman, Signwriting
One of the kids painted a sign, I prepared a spare sheet of ply with white paint, printed off the lettering and used a charcoal pencil on the reverse, then with a biro I firmly drew over the printed lines leaving a dusty but accurate guide to follow with paint:
