682-503-1912 * Scott McDonald
I had no Idea “Tom and Jerry” was for real!!
I inserted my inspection camera under some cabinets and took a picture of this perfectly made mouse hole!!
Pretty amazing! It was about 3 inches across… the rats had done quite a lot of damage, but we filled these and hopefully there are no more!
Happy Mouse Hunting!
Little boys in a clients home decided to clean out their aquarium in the sink…
Problem was, they did it in the Disposal and filled it full of little aquarium rocks!
The disposal had to be removed and flushed to get all the pieces out, but it was saved in the end! This is not the weirdest thing I have found in a disposal… We have pulled out:
* rocks * pennies * dishrag * fork, yes a fork * spoon * toy car * chicken bones * broken glass
Remember… The disposal is not a junkyard metal grinder…it’s just a disposal! : )
-Scott
Installed these the other day in a clients house… the LED’s filled the room nicely and the pendent lights go well with the setup..
I already posted about a ceiling collapse here….
But just for fun….here’s another we did…
Pretty bad
I cannot stress enough that you need to pay attention to cracks and nail holes appearing in the ceiling. Watch for bowing and warping as well. You do NOT want this to happen!!
Getting going with the repairs
aaaand the finished product!!
Happy Cleaning!!
When installing a wooden double gate, it is important to have an additional latch or stop for the gate. If the latch shown below is the only one used, the wind will easily blow the gate open…
We recommend an additional latch and many different styles will work.
The key is to stop the gate from moving or twisting in the wind, here are several ideas….
This type of bar latch works well, especially if one side is stabilized with a device like the one shown below…
This or a variation of this device works very well, especially when there is concrete, because it stabilizes one side of the gate, then the latch has something stable to latch onto making for a gate that is less likely to blow open in moderate wind.
When there is no concrete, drive a 1/2″ piece of galvanized pipe into the ground and let the stop fall into it.
Come up with your own creative idea!! A long locking bar works probably the best but is normally only accessible from one side.
This one was shown at http://www.sfallstars.com/barn-doors-and-fence-gates-backwood-enterprise-tj4motua.html
Happy Latching!
The floor was pushing the sliding door and entire wall outward…
We used jacks and very long threaded 3/4 inch bolts to attach to solid bracing under the house, and used the power of the bolts tightening against the solid bracing to pull the side of the house back together. Quite a heavy chore, but it worked!!
Here is the finished product after we filled the dirt back in. It held itself in place and was a very cost-effective repair…
Here is a backsplash I installed Friday
Started on a sheetrock wall, I sealed the edges with silicone
Starting the customers design
Pulled the plugs out to the front edge of the tile
Grouted it with white pre-mixed grout. About a 5 hour process
from start to finish.
(Now we hope they paint the cabinets!)
Happy Backsplashing!
Yes, pretty sad, I know… but this is how we roll…
Here’s a project we worked on a few weeks ago.
We set up at night to build new stall doors in the bathrooms,
semi-rustic (whatever that means) but this is what the design
came out looking like…
I decided that using outdoor privacy fence gate hardware would fit
best with the design.
We painted them later with the restaurant colors, it seemed to fit well
with restaurant style.
Happy Privacy!
A rental property left vacant for just a few weeks….
This is pictures I took under the dishwasher.
All the plastic pipes under the dishwasher had been chewed on.
But it even got worse!!
The back of the pump housing was plastic as well, and it had been chewed through in multiple places…the dishwasher was a total loss.
The moral to the story is: rodents and pests can do costly damage even when no one is around and it looks as though everything is cleaned up. It’s good to have good repellent set about when a house is going to be vacant for a while. Just the fact that rodents like to come in out of the cold, and must eat to survive, should warn us to keep repellent out to avoid this type of costly disaster.
Happy Hunting!
Renov8z