Bs Knees Services

Added railings and fixed up a few things. Got a little too late to finish unfortunately.

Before & after half bath remodel. New toilet, vanity top, sink, faucet, light, exhaust fan, swutch, cabinet hardware and towel ring. Got rid of the outdated built in soap dishes, patched the holes, gave everything a fresh coat of paint. It's a little hard to tell in the first pic, but the wall opposite the door was (well, technically still is) the same paneling as the bright blue wall 2nd to last pic. It had a few spots in pretty bad shape. Not much you can do, short of tearing it all out and installing new drywall. I think my solution yielded satisfactory results, I know the customer is quite pleased with it.

More before & in progress shots of the current project. The door & window trim is standard stuff, and the rosettes on the corners were purchased pre-made. The raised panels & moldings on the backside of the cabinets I made myself out of plywood and 1x2 & 1x3 common. I didn't use a router table, so they're not perfect, but they're also not finished.

Some before & in progress shots of the kitchen renovation I'm currently working on. Here we have the double cabinet over the fridge that was made a little smaller so a larger fridge would fit. The wall with the window had a lot of water & mold damage. Opened the wall, let everything dry out, treated everything a few times with mold killer/growth inhibitor. Put some nail stops over the gas supply line to the range. New countertops, drywall, door & window molding. Still a work in progress, but it's moving along.

Started this after I finished the gazebo. At midnight. Wrapped it up in 2 hours. The fire pit, not everything lol

The client I built the gazebo and fire pit for had the misfortune of getting robbed by another contractor. He disappeared after doing about half of the deck he was hired to do. I finished the deck, and offered to fix the siding here for no labor charge. Oh boy. I should have looked a little closer first. The driveway guy buried the bottom panel & the J channel. And of course I ran into some rot in the sheathing. Fixed it up the best I could with some leftover materials for now. They're happy I caught what could have been a major issue in a few years, and I did my good deed for the day.

Another past vinyl siding job. This was in Wilbraham, Ma. Pretty good sized house. The sloped side with all of the sand was a nice touch as well, I wish I could set all of my pump jacks in the dunes.

Well, it was a long night, but I got the gazebo put together and built a firepit (separate post) for the customer. All by myself too. I figured out a couple little tricks to speed up the process which certainly didn't hurt.

Nice day to be outside yesterday. Spent most of it putting this trampoline together. To call the instruction manual vague at best would be giving it too much credit. At least the homeowner had dogs I could play with every time I got irritated 😊🐕She was pleased with the end result, her grandson even more so.

Another past project, some framing & sheathing.

Got something slightly productive accomplished. Came across this old wooden Country Club soda case. I thought it would be a neat way to store some of my records. Wrong. The short dimension is too short to attempt to manipulate, and the long dimension is, well, too long. Now I have a shelf in the bathroom that pretty much makes up for the lack of a medicine cabinet. I noticed in the pics it looks like it is awfully close to the towel bar, so I threw in the pic with the measurement.