This garden decking work acquired from nextdoor App. Done on a residential garden in Great Witley. Using Redwood exterior timber. Completed in three days by three men. 

 Next job was to creosote the frame with lashings of creosote to preserve the wood. Splashed on and not painted on.

 Collaboration with two work colleagues involved repairing a leaky roof. Advertised by the client on Nextdoor App. The Project Leader is Simon Cook, a long term served carpenter and skilled artisan. 

Roof Components. A ridge is a timber board that runs the length of the roof and acts as a type of spine. It is placed at the apex (Bargeboard) of the roof structure. 

 Reference: obtainable on request.

 From advertising on Gumtree as Window Blind Installer two horizantal blinds were installed in a residential house in Halesowen.

Paid £30 for installing two blinds. Reference: obtainable upon request.

 Flat Pack Furniture Assembly

Advertised on Bidvine. two items of furniture: a bed divan and a bed. Client purchased the flat pack furniture after moving in to a new house and asked for help with assembly work. 

 Flat Pack Furniture Assembly

Another contract of flat pack furniture gained from Bidvine and for another Birmingham client. This time a wardrobe. 

First stage was to assemble top, bottom, side and middle panels and three shelves with dowels and screws. Respective panels were placed on floor and assembled.

 Flat Pack Furniture Assembly

The wardrobe upright and placed in required position of the room and work started on third stage.

Hanging bars and brackets were screwed into place. Allowing for clothes to be hung later. Further shelves were inserted using shelving supports.

Now the fourth and final stage of placing the sliding mirror doors.

The procedure of installing blinds is straight forward. First it’s a case of pinpointing where the brackets go that will hold the blinds. By using a centre punch and hammer to make a breaching hole for drilling the screw hole, placing in a wall plug, then the bracket and screwing into place, and finally slotting the blinds into the brackets.

Blind installation carried out in front living room, back living room, kitchen, upstairs front bedrooms, upstairs back bedrooms and the conservatory. Reference: obtainable upon request.

Gained from advertising on NextDoor App. A local client asked for door furniture fixings to be carried out on six doors.

Door ironmongery is also termed as “door furniture” and refers to latches, bolts, door handles, door hinges, letter or postal plates and other security devices. The hand of the door is some-times required in order to select the correct items of ironmongery. Basic door fixing is as follows:

A carpentry project for a wedding present. An ottoman (blanket box) made from three tiers of floorboards.

A meeting was taken place at the client’s address to price up a quote to have two carpentry jobs carried out. Fixing two French doors and a garden shed.

The back of this garden house was rotted completely and required a total repair.

I was asked to sand down some raised flower beds in preparation for them being re-varnished.

Simply a case of me using an orbital power sander and high grade sandpaper. A day’s work. 

Pictures display before sanding and finished sanding.

Approached by the client from the Nextdoor App to renovate a shed roof. First duty to strip down the old felt and roofing. After buying supplies work commenced with creosoting the underneath roof. Then positioning new layers of wooden roofing and hammering clout nails to hold in place.

 The new roofing in place. Using a power screwdriver I screwed wooden borders around the roofing to hold the roofing felt.

A day’s work of  blind installation on four windows. A general procedure as done from previous blind installations: fixing the housing brackets into the window recess and positioning the blinds in place with just a few tools of power drill, masonry bits and rachet screwdriver.

A new client providing a range of duties to do. A meeting involved talking about construction of a framework ready for garage door to be installed at the bottom front of this Wendy House (lodge). With cladding finished off on both sides.

Before completing the cladding work. A polythene membrane was fastened to framework. This provides weather resistance. Now the application of the cladding:  the cladding was supplied and job mostly involved measuring each cladding to framework, sawing it off and sawing mitre angles at the ends with a mitre saw and fasten 

 Next place was a few steps up for top of the lodge and to construct new wooden safety railings with supplied timber.

The supporting pole had three holes chiselled and drilled out as shown.

Completed railing as shown

Whilst on the site there became a range of further generalised duties: a baseframe which needed dismantling.

Gravel stones being spread over designated area.

Block paving work on a driveway needed completing and generalised work carried out to support completion of the work: relocating block pavers off the sand ready for laying out, working from other side of the fences so to place bricks underneath gravelboards for extra height. Plus laying some block pavers.

Eastham, Tenbury Wells and a new client. Restoration work on garden furniture: wooden benches and a shed. Displayed above is one garden bench that has collected a lot of mould. 

Below are two side tables. Again with same restoration work required.

Table One

Table Two

Another garden bench requiring attention but also upholstery work applying to cushion cover.