January
- Completed exterior siding project started in December 2017
- Rental houses
- Helped bring rental properties up to compliance with new town rental regulations
- Installed smoke detectors
- Traced circuits & labeled breaker panels
March
- Interior Business Remodel
- New to Sioux Center business purchased a building in town
- Demoed counter tops & desks
- Customized a 3 drawer base cabinet in kitchenette to accept a dishwasher
- Stained & finished 1x pine lumber & installed casing & base to match interior trim
- Demoed bathroom plastic tile wainscoting & drywall
- Installed & primed new drywall to prep for ceramic tile
- Interior Residential Storage
- Built custom shelving units in a basement storage room
- Built custom cabinet in garage
Installed 2 storm doors
April
May
- Interior Business Remodel
- Installed 4 pieces of laminate counter tops
- Stained, finished, & installed oak base
- Installed 2 onyx vanity tops
- Custom Kitchen Table build
- A friend asked for help building a custom table to help complete a remodel they were working on
- We used laminate flooring for the table top & trimmed it out with Azek
- Helped install with a cleat on the wall & he added black pipe legs
- Small Fixes
- Fixed accordion door that was damaged
- Replaced aluminum screen on a screen door that was damaged with vinyl screen
- Garden Planter Box
- A friend asked me to build a cedar planter box for her mom for Mother's Day
- Built-in Grill
- Cut a half wall & framed for a grill surround
- Framed, installed OSB & siding
- Primed & painted
- Installed tile surround & trim
- On the back side we built a set of doors to have access to the natural gas line & electrical
- Also made extra room to use for storage of garden tools & fire pit equipment
June
- Workout Room
- Client contacted me about converting a section of their double-deep garage stall into a workout room
- Framed a separating wall
- Roughed in electrical
- Taped & textured walls & ceiling
- Painted walls & ceiling
- Installed Rock Solid Polycuramine floor coating
- Painted & installed doors & trim
- Organization & Honey Do List
- Client asked if we would help install some garage organization & other things on her list
- Installed garage organization
- Installed cup hooks on the bottom of a shelf in the coffee area of the kitchen
- Installed hooks on 1x material for coat hooks & hat hooks
- Garage Door trim
- Jambs were rotten so we replaced the jambs & trim with Azek PVC trim
July
- Exterior door installation
- Deck top rail replacement
- Top rails were rotten. Replaced them with pressure treated lumber
- Replaced 2 interior doors
- Replaced bottom 2 feet of drywall in a basement that had been flooded
- Applied Rock Solid Polycuramine floor coating to a large garage floor
- A client asked me to help prep their house to sell
- Repaired holes in a plaster ceiling & wall
- Built a custom storm window to replace a rotten one
August
- Screen porch remodel
- Client requested to convert a screen porch into a 4 seasons room
- Demoed old screens
- Installed a sub floor over rigid foam to insulate the slab
- Framed window & door openings
- Installed fiberglass insulation
- Framed for a fireplace
- Installed house wrap
- Installed ship lap on interior walls
- September
- Cut a section of basement wall to open up the staircase
- Cut the wall & demoed the drywall
- Installed blocking & drywall
- Mudded & textured
- Stained, finished, & installed oak cap
- Screen Porch Remodel
- Finished ship lap
- Installed windows & door
- Installed window casing
- Installed cedar car siding on the exterior
- Installed vinyl plank flooring
- Installed light fixtures & outlets
- Built custom cabinets to surround fireplace
- Primed cabinets so homeowners could paint them
- Installed base trim, cabinets, stone on fireplace, & oak tops & trim on cabinets & fireplace
- Built & installed custom 2x bartop/desk
- October
- Small projects
- Replaced 2 fluorescent light fixtures with LED fixtures
- Installed casing & base in a basement laundry room
- Flooded basement trim job
- Client has water in their basement in June
- They started remodeling, but realized they needed help installing the base because they left the bottom foot of drywall off, so we installed a 1x12, with a casing cap, & base
- November
- Basement/Main Floor Remodel
- Removed hallway walls & closet
- Removed dining room walls
- Installed 2 LVL header beams to open up the space
- Installed drywall
- Installed vinyl plank flooring over old linoleum
- Built a custom shelving unit & wrapped it in cedar for a display unit
- December
- Replaced old ceiling fans in a property being prepared to be listed
- Installed new base over vinyl plank I had installed