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Repairing Door Hinges Recently a client in Wellesley, Massachusetts asked us to change out her bathroom door with a new door slab. When I removed the hinges to install the new hinges I found that someone had previously had screw hole problems and drilled out the holes larger and inserted plastic drywall anchors into the…
Building A Theatre Door Recently we worked at the “Friends Of the Performing Arts Center” [FOPAC] on 51 Walden Street in Concord, MA. They asked us if we were interested in Building A 20′ Foot Stage Door. had fun with this project!! Part of the work we did was to replace their old 20…
Recently we worked at the “Friends Of the Performing Arts Center” [FOPAC] on 51 Walden Street in Concord, MA. We had fun with this project!! Part of the work we did was to replace their old 20 foot high “scene dock” door. This door opens to an unheated storage room where all of the tall…
Installing Crown Molding If you follow this blog with any frequency you may remember seeing the vent, pictured below, in a post titled “Preparing For crown Molding.” In order for the crown molding to be installed we had to move the vent above and remove and relocate a vent below to accommodate the molding size.…
Repairing A Garage Wall Push Out By A Car “Honey…. What was that noise?” A customer of mine called me recently to tell me that her husband accidentally drove into the back of their garage wall. The beauty of having loyal, repeat customers is she didn’t call to ask for an estimate she said, “please…
A past client, and referral from my plumber, called me this week and asked me to build her a closet where this desk now sits. See my past post on the importance of trades referrals. Her bedroom has no closets and this project will give her a 24″ deep by 8′ long closet. The closet…
Designing A Fireplace Mantle and Flanking Bookcase The image below is one I use to give clients ideas on bookcase and mantle design. A fireplace mantle and flanking bookcase seems to be a popular one these days. Besides using design magazine and manufacturer catalogs this simple image spells out the following: ABOVE IMAGE – LEFT…
Weaving Cedar Shingles The picture above shows cedar shingles properly woven into an existing wall of older shingles. The photo below shows how not to do it. In the picture below the shingles were installed into an old window opening and not woven properly. This results in two, large vertical seam lines that…
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