Category Archives: Home: Handyman & Remodeling

One of my customers sent me a text this morning and said they got a quote to replace the float valve and flapper valve drain in their toilets for almost 300 for each toilet.  By early 2013 standards, this is absolute robbery.  Even if it’s a water-saving toilet. Every week we see a double standardContinue reading “Pricing Your Repairs”

Installing FRP panels this weekend in a private school in Dallas. The guys working with me today showed me a great tip I had never done.  We are using my electric metal-cutting shears to cut it.  It is speeding up the process by a huge amount. These guys have installed over 4,000 sheets of theseContinue reading “FRP Install”

The last kids have had lunch… so we have begin prepping the kitchen at this private school to install FRP panels. FRP panels are “fiberglass reinforced panels” used mainly in commercial applications.  It’s like having a plastic wall that can be easily cleaned. The Dallas Health Department is requiring this upgrade, so we are attemptingContinue reading “FRP panel in a private school”

Late evening job tonight setting up a goal with Mark Malac from ATAP… 24 inch deep hole with fast set concrete! With the last 2 baskets I have installed, I would recommend NOT using the plastic sleeve that goes first into the ground.  We have found that the pole is not as stable and can twist easily.Continue reading “Basket Ball Goal”

These are the LED lights we are installing today… The price has come down considerably in the last couple of years, but it is still quite expensive to change to all LED.  The good thing is they will eventually pay for themselves, they run cooler, and it may be years before you change that bulbContinue reading “LED Lighting”

Laying out a new can light LED system today!  Kitchen has some dark areas and we’re filling it in..

This is an A/C unit we found today on the roof of an apartment complex.  The base had rotted leaving the unit tilted to one side.  It is important to maintain your unit level and clean.  Simply blowing the fins out with a low pressure water hose on a regular basis and making sure youContinue reading “A/C tip”

And just like that… we saved a Remax agent from having to call a plumber, electrician and a sheetrocker this afternoon..

Even in really nice houses we often see this problem in North Texas.. This is an 8 foot door that’s stuck in the door jam in Southlake this morning. I wonder if it has anything to do with that nose sticking through the crack in the door..

Installed custom shelves yesterday in Las Colinas,  the owners provided us with specs for shelves and a clothes hanging bar with another shelf. We finished out the closet in a matter of 4 hours complete with a coat of paint!