When you look around your home maybe you see a list of jobs that have been on the ‘to do’ list for week, months or even years! Maybe the list includes hanging pictures, installing those new blinds, oiling the deck, fixing that leaking guttering, painting the garden shed or having a new deck built – […]
Many people have small laundries and optimising the space in the laundry is an important consideration. The vast majority of modern electric clothes dryers come with a wall mount kit that allows for the dryer to be mounted on the wall of the laundry. The important issues when looking to mount the dryer on the […]
Custom Shelves Made To Measure
If you have a corner of a room that require non standard shelves to be installed we can assist. It may be that you have a requirement for shelving that needs to be particularly narrow, made of a particular material or have a certain look to them. We can look at […]
Our work can be very varied and present a few interesting challenges. A friend asked us to see if we could fix some broken parts on an old 1940’s bakelite radio. The broken parts were ‘spars’ on the speaker grill that had come off and needed re-fabricating. bakelite was really the earliest ‘plastic’ to be commercially […]
Anyone who has used power tools for a while knows they can be potentially dangerous. The wattages of modern power saws, hammer drills, electric planers, drop saws and the likes have increased and these tools can do serious damage to their users if care is not taken. By no means an exhaustive list, here are […]
Many of the newer apartments in the eastern suburbs of Sydney have relatively small laundries. As a result of this we get a number of people looking to improve the storage options in their laundries for their mops, brooms and other cleaning accessories. A number of ‘smart storage’ solutions are available to make keeping these […]
There are many instances where hinges need to be changed. This can be because the existing hinges are damaged, rusted or inoperable. We recently replaced hinges on a bathroom door in a very old eastern suburbs home. The hinges were probably made from mild steel that, due to the high humidity conditions in the bathroom […]
We get asked to look at electronic jobs from time to time. Depending on the job we can often do basic fault finding to determine if we can get a piece of electronic equipment running. We were asked to setup a set top box for an owner of an old Panasonic television set that dated […]