This job was a great job! I thoroughly enjoy this type of work.

Here, I had to remove all the old and leaky felt and the rotten flimsy plywood initially. The far end of this shed is actually a separate shed with a different roof height. So once I had removed everything, I built up the lower structure to be level with the main shed and then spaced standard stud timbers all along the sheds. Then I had to haul 18mm OSB3 sheeting measuring 8ft x 4ft up on to the timbers and secure in place. At this stage, I was not being perfect with them as once they were all up and secure, I then cut away to the outer edges to form the rectangular shape.

I overlapped at the back slightly as I had to fix all the guttering too and wanted to make sure the fall of the water off the back was going to land in the gutters properly. It was never in doubt really though was it! The front was overlapped about 250mm just to protect the windows somewhat.

I used 25mm x 50mm tile battens to hang under the OSB3 all the way around and that gave me plenty of depth then to secure the felt to.

The felt was then stapled in place and tacked in all the corners. The customer wanted me to leave the wood off the fascias as it just rotted last time so he thought there was no point this time.

On the inside, I used offcuts of the new OSB3 boarding to fill in all the gaps under the eaves and the customer will paint them white to match in with the rest of the interior.

All in all, a very decent job.

Having a job done at the same time as your neighbour is one of the most sensible things you can do.
Both properties benefit from cost savings and also a high quality finished product that of course means you are adding value.

On this occasion, it was exterior render painting using Sandtex White. There are thousands of you out there with properties like this, so have a chat with your neighbour and book me in for next year!

Both of these properties were looking quite tired so the facelift really did look good on them.

Have a look through the photos and see what you think.

Just lately I seem to be doing a fair bit of plastering repair work. On this job, the plaster skim had cracked away from the wall and I was able to remove the plaster all the way around the patio doors in 2 minutes as it literally fell off!
I used 2 coats of PVA on the walls before re-plastering it. It was left to dry for a couple of days and then I went back to paint it in Dulux Natural Hessian vinyl matt which was a close match with the old unknown colours.

This property in Elstow was being done up to be rented out. The owner took on various jobs himself but needed me for a few of them.

I boxed in the fireplace for a maintenance free tidy look. I made a cupboard for the boiler and also tiled the kitchen.

It is so much easier when one person is responsible for different jobs 🙂

I was asked to paint a hall, stairs and landing recently and was also asked if I could do anything with the nasty crack at the bottom of the stairs.

I made the crack worse than it was by breaking it out back to sound plasterwork. As it was so deep, I built it up in layers of plaster and finally, polyfilla for the ‘smooth as a baby’s bum’ finish. It was important to maintain the sharp edge of the corner for a seamless look when it was painted.