Tag Archives: home improvement

Screened in Porch

Today’s project was building a screened in porch for a client with removable trim pieces for ease of changing out the screen! We also installed a pet door and self closing hinges on the screen door. This was a one day project

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Rotted Floor

If you ever detect soft spots in your floor, it pays to investigate and find what is causing the problem… In this case, we found a lot of mold and just plain grossness under the top layer of flooring!  It was a very good thing that the house was vacant at the time, because theContinue reading “Rotted Floor”

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Foundation Repair

While we do not do major foundation repair, sometimes we do minor repairs and leveling to homes that have shifted with the North Texas soil. This house had some floor issues where the beams under the house had shifted and were pushing outward. The floor was pushing the sliding door and entire wall outward… WeContinue reading “Foundation Repair”

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Backsplash

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!

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Commercial Bathroom Stall Doors

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 themContinue reading “Commercial Bathroom Stall Doors”

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When Mice Attack!

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 wasContinue reading “When Mice Attack!”

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Closet Ideas

Here’s some ideas from a closet we built. (Click on a picture to enlarge it)                   We used 3/4 inch MDF board only.  We cut it down for bracing, trim, shelves…pretty much everything except the hanging rods was made out of MDF board   The biggest challenge was extremelyContinue reading “Closet Ideas”

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