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Hiding a safe really well.

Hiding a safe really well.

  I replaced a customer's lower level office vinyl floor with engineered wood. He had been hiding a floor safe beneath a scruffy old rug.   I installed the wood around it and then came back...

How to get a pantry from nothing

How to get a pantry from nothing

I remodeled my 8 x 10 mess of a galley kitchen into an 8 x 13 functional dream. I needed a pantry so I took the blank, zero-lot-line wall at the end and cut the sheetrock to the outside sheathing and...



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Re: A Moldy Crawlspace Nightmare

I went to replace a 4 x 8 ceiling panel over a patio and under an upstairs deck. Somebody had neglected to give the upstairs deck any drainage and the water had eaten away virtually all of the structure and was very close to doing damage to the rim joist and starting on the living room.
I had to almost completely replace the structure and what was supposed to be a $200.00 job ended up costing almost $4000.00.
When people have these problems, somebody eventually has to find them and we're on the front lines. As a handyman, I find all kinds of ugly stuff.
I started a bathroom remodel and, when the lavatory base was removed, I found a huge infestation of termites.
A plumber had made some sort of mistake and had to abandon the lines in the slab and bring water in from the attic. He/she didn't crimp the lines quite good enough so the termites started their feast from the middle of the house.

Re: Lunch Pail Podcast #1: What's the Difference Between a Trim Carpenter and a Fine Woodworker?

I found this informative but the sound level was so low I had difficulty cranking the volume up enough to be able to understand it.