Plantation Shutter Installation

18 April 2016. Plantation shutters are incredibly popular in 2016. We have a plantation shutter installation service available for people who like to purchase their own plantation shutters but then require someone to actually install them for them.

Plantation shutters are generally a timber made, louvered shutter than have the advantage of being able to be opened […]

Removing Built In Wardrobes – Handyman Project March 2016

22 March 2016. We did an interesting job recently. We were asked by a home owner at Enmore to remove a very old built in wardrobe from the upstairs bedroom of an old terraced home. Like a lot of homes in the inner west, this place was well over 100 years old and had been through […]

Decks and Carpentry

Many homes in the inner west can really benefit from having a deck built. Given Sydney’s warn summer weather we have enjoyed in 2016 it makes a lot of sense to add a deck to your home to allow your family to enjoy more of the outdoors. Many families enjoy having a barbecue on their […]

Tips On Installing Cornice Work

Installing cornices can seem like a daunting job. We have recently installed a new ceiling in an inner west homes’ bathroom. The old bathroom ceiling was well over 100 years old and looked it! The ceiling was sagging and had a couple of 10 cm wide holes in it. Rather than taking the ceiling down […]

Fixing Gyprock and Plasterboard

We get a number of people looking for help with gyprock and plasterboard. This popular product is used in all areas of the home including kitchens, lounge rooms, bedrooms and even wet areas like bathrooms and laundries when the appropriate type of plasterboard is selected. In some inner west Sydney homes that have brick walls […]

Picture Hanging Inner West

We get many requests for picture hanging from inner west Sydney residents. The range and types of requests include hanging:

art work
photographs
framed prints
unframed prints
wall mounted sculptures
sets of prints
artwork series prints

There can be some interesting challenges when clients have, for example, a series of ‘related’ artwork that needs to be mounted on the wall in a certain […]

Removing Old Kitchen Cupboards

We get occasional requests to remove old kitchen cupboards and bench tops. This is generally because a new kitchen is to be installed and many kitchen installation companies do not cater for removal and disposal of the old kitchen. We can generally assist with these type of jobs provided there are no plumbing or electrical […]

Painting A New Front Door

With so many people looking to renovate and upgrade their homes in late 2015 and early 2016 we see a reasonable number of enquiries for installing new solid timer front doors and painting them. It can be quite surprising that the steps to painting an exterior front door (or back door, for that matter), can actually […]

Handyman Project – Vinyl Flooring Installation

The boom in home renovation in the inner west continues unabated in November 2015 meaning that the need for handyman services in Sydney’s inner west is very strong. One area of home repair and maintenance that is at the top of every renovators list is flooring and we have had a number of enquiries to […]

Painting Mouldy Bathroom Ceilings

We had a call recently to inspect a bathroom ceiling in need of handyman attention. The job involved a bathroom in an inner west apartment that was in poor repair . It was flaky and has some p[patchy areas of mould. We quoted a very reasonable price based on the following work that was required […]