Photo Album

This was a client in San Mateo

A tub area was done in cultured marble: A less expensive approach

This is a closer view of it.

Not as nice as tile, but it is professionally installed and doesn't leak.

This is the rest of the bathroom

A plain tile floor, vanity, new med. chest and new door for left side cabinet

And here's the whole bathroom

The customer did not want a shower door

New closet doors

The customer had really crappy almost cardboard doors

My customer had large sliding closet doors that were horrid cardboard things with sheetmetal frames. Always jumped the tracks.

The solution was to order louvered doors to fit the 10' wide by 8'high opening. It was expensive, but it did the trick and she's very happy with them.

The mantle is new

There was marble around the fireplace and it was plain without the mantle

The previous client's cat

I really like cats. We have a whole herd of them.

A door knob problem

They just don't make these anymore

My friend was going on an extended vacation and neither his front nor his back door could be locked properly. Turns out his front door had a lock from history.

The hole that you see will not fit any modern door knobs. It needed a lot of work.

It's Epoxy Time!

I'll be good as new

The solution was to fill the hole with epoxy. It took about five differnt stages of adding epoxy before it was finished, but this stuff is quick drying, so it went fast. I took care of other things while I was waiting.

All better

Ready to paint

This is from the inside

As you can see from the two pictures above, the new door locks fit just fine and it's hard to tell there was a hole there.

It's time consuming, but still quite a bit cheaper than installing a brand new door. This solution works with painted doors, but not stained ones.

The photos represent the wide variety of projects that Craig does.

Completely Different Construction

A little nook that rotted

This is a little 4 foot high cubbyhole stuck onto the back of a house. There are two windows that both slope down, virtually guaranteeing water damage. I was called in to do some minor repairs to this area. Sometimes there's only so much you can do.

This is the original front door.

The owners could no longer open it in winter

This is the same door from the inside

It's sagging against the frame. It was a solid wood door.

The old door was solid wood and it was framed into the wall. The customers had tried for years to get it fixed, but no one had been able to do it because it was built in.

I took the door and sidelight out completely and had a pre-hung frame custom made for the opening. Solid wood sucks for wet locations, so I got a fiberglass door instead. It can't expand and contract with the weather and it won't sag because it's pretty light.

Below is the new door. Except for the side light, it looks pretty much the same as the old one. Up close though, the old door looked pretty weathered.

The customers were ecstatic. Literally. After I finished the wife told me that she had to use the garage to get out of the house in winter because the door was impossible to open.

This is the new door and side light

It's not going to have the same problem

The Courtyard gets clear roofing

It's a lot nicer now.

The same customer needed the courtyard roofed in with the plastic stuff. It's better than the fiberglass. Anyway, they have a roof that is near the end of its life, so I had to build the thing so that the existing roof could be taken up without destroying what I had built.

It is UV protected and what a difference. It's in Sunnyvale, so it gets pretty hot. It was immediately comfortable in the courtyard when I was done. It will also protect the stain on their very nice front door. (Not the one I installed. The front door to the house, which is not shownn.)