6. Replacing attic stairs

The pull down attic stairs are great when they are in good working order.  After they get some years on them and some serious traffic from folks who might be a tad on the hefty size, they begin to show their age.  They can be cobbled...

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7. Painting interiors

Unless you are little bit bent in the wrong direction, painting is probably not your favorite cup of tea. Like most folks, painting is NOT on my top ten list of favorite things to do. I'm not sure it is on my list at all. However, there are times...

14/05/2008 | 166 Hits | Read more...

8. When you buy cheap

When you buy cheap, you get exactly what you pay for. When you buy cheap, you get exactly what you pay for. The ongoing retexturing of my ceiling required me to have a long handle on my brush. The telescoping handle I had wouldn't work since it...

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9. Drywall faking

Drywall is not one of my favorite things nor is trying to repair it and retexture it. Having had folks look at what I wanted to do and being told the only way they would do it was to replace everything, I jumped on it myself. Old school drywall...

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10. Concrete form

I like doing concrete work about as much as I like removing rusty fish hooks from my thumb. Building the form for somebody ELSE to put concrete in, well, that is MY kind of concrete work. I needed a form 6 inches high and configured to make a...

13/11/2007 | 232 Hits | Read more...