10 June, 2021 | Bricklaying, Building, Garden, Refurbishment
This old wall has been repaired in the past but there was a large section missing and had become insecure for children and pets. Also a tree root had damaged it and opened up the footing. I have repaired it as sympathetically as I can, following the same construction...
20 November, 2020 | Carpentry, Modernisation, Refurbishment, Roofing, Windows
This was a nice project to work on between lockdown 1 and 2. My customer wanted the old roof, window and doors refurbed. As you can see it was very old and tired, the kerb appeal wasn’t that good. I installed a new roof, new ventilated panel and refurbed an old...
15 November, 2019 | Maintenance, Refurbishment, Roofing
I’ve done a few of these recently as a result of the high winds. This one had easy access and only took an hour and a half to remove the old felt and nails, staple in a polythene membrane and nail on the new felt, with a bonded overlap, then repinned all the...
17 July, 2019 | Bathroom, Refurbishment
A small and easy job this morning: cleaning up old grout edges and replacing with new colour matched mastick, plus a little clean up of the surrounding areas. I’ve been working on the best technique to get the best finish I can and I’m quite happy with the...
28 February, 2019 | Carpentry, Refurbishment
This was a satisfying job, I rebuilt the face of an understairs cupboard so that access to the boiler for servicing is easier and reaching the right hand side is better, putting the vacuum away is also much simpler as the hose doesn’t need to be jiggled in. The...
16 January, 2019 | Refurbishment, Windows
A sticky window catch could lead to a problem, this one just seized without locking properly. After calling some local companies for a new mechanism I tracked down the exact unit for this window in Sovereign Harbour and switched them over. While at this address I...
