Art Intallation At Hotel Ivy. Hanging art at Hotel Ivy! I spent two days this week hanging art at a Hotel Ivy residence. A couple pieces were a challenge. One was a 4×8 foot cement on plywood painting. It weighed about 150lbs!We used a French cleat to hang it with, which is basically a one […]
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Breaking Into A Safe In Minneapolis. I was called by Ameritrade’s building management company. They asked me to remove a safe. Apparently, they forgot the code. They had a company come in to breach the lock. I picked it up and brought it to a metal recycling place but they would not take it. So […]
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Hang New Flower Boxes/Planters. Today I hung several flower boxes for a client in Deephaven. He had several older wood ones that were rotting off the house. I removed the old flower boxes and patched the damage from that.The new plastic ones won’t rot. First I measured out where the brackets will go. I drilled […]
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Hanging Art In Minneapolis. Here is another art hanging I did. I have hung several pieces for this client. We hung lots of small pieces like this one. Plus several larger ones on another visit. Hanging art is one of my most common requests. I do it almost every week. They can be super small pieces […]
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Replacing Kitchen Cabinet Hardware. I change out kitchen hardware fairly often. This kitchen needed 10 drawer bin pulls and 28 door handles. But it wasn’t just remove the old install the new.It involved drilling new holes using a template. Sometimes I need to make a custom template. I removed all of the old hardware. Marked […]
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Precious Family Tools. One of the tools I used today installing reclaimed wood in a bathroom wall was my dad’s. He used it on home projects when I was a kid. Once, we tried to sell it at a garage sale but no one bought it. Dewalt makes a way better one but I like […]
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Get Wood In The Bathroom. A client bought some reclaimed wood at www.mrtimbers.com to install on the wall behind his toilet. It looks really nice. The wall was painted black first so you wont see through the knot holes or gaps. I leveled it out. I glued most of it and nailed a few full […]
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Now You See a Screen Door, Now You Don’t. Today I removed an old slamming storm door in Orono. I replaced it with a new scrolling screen door. You can hardly see it. It just slides, or scrolls rather, over to open and to close. When it’s closed it barely takes up any room. It’s […]
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All Shelf, No Stuff.. My client just moved in to their house and needed some help getting the house put together. I installed a couple shelving units. Including one on-the-wall organizer in the garage and this one in the basement. They also had a hand made wood shelving unit that need stabilization. I added customized […]
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Hanging Art In Minneapolis. After my furniture assembly job this morning we snuck in a art hanging job since I was near by. He had several pieces of new art he wanted hung. The color on these three really stood out. Lots of other amazing art was hanging in different areas. One piece I needed to […]
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