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I can do
many things but do not work when it is raining because all my tools
get wet when I open and close my drawers and I get wet too and can get sick.
If you
have made an appointment and it is raining, then please
change it
Access
Panel installed to be able to repair
plumbing easily in the future.
Animal Deterrents - to keep your house pest free
Assorted darkrooms
Basement renovation
Basements painted
Basements cleaned out
Basements organized
Bathrooms gutted
Bathrooms siliconed
Bike racks designed and built
Bicycles designed and built
Bird houses hung and built
Built an exercise room where the guy can surf the net
while riding his bike
Built garbage hutch
Cable management
(hiding all those computer and stereo wires)
Cat enclosures built
Cedar closets built
Circuit boards designed and built for little projects
Cleaning all types of things like garages or basements
Closets organized
Clothing store
Computers assembled and software installed
Concrete steps
Cracks in asphalt and concrete driveways repaired
Cracks in the sides of houses filled
Crown + chair mouldings (I can refer this to you)
Custom woodworking,
Cut back branches,
Cut lawns
Deck washing
Decorative fences and gates designed and built
Designed all kinds of things, some of which you will
recognize
Designed and built a gun cleaning area for a collector
Designed and built a loft for a customer
Designed and built all types of furniture
Designed and built computer tables
Designed and built decks of all types
Designed and built kitchen cupboards
Designed and built playgrounds of all types
Designed layout for fliers for customers (my hobby)
write training manuals for companies
Designed and built assorted tree forts – one even had
an elevator
Develop black & white and colour films
Digital photography – 22 years experience in the
photographic industry
Discounts at Sheridan Nurseries
Discounts in Mr. Lube
Door frames replaced and repaired
Door repair
Doors hung even a bunny run (ask Les if you don’t
know what this is )
Drains unclogged
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Electronic devices
assembled
Electronic devices designed and built
Electronics - stereos VCRs etc.
Enlarging closets
Eves cleaning
Excellent story teller for kids or adults
Fabricated things
from wood plastics and glass
Faucets repaired
Fences installed wood or steel
Figured out 'dog runs' for security dogs protecting a
fence line
Figured out lots of solutions to many solutions for
people to make certain repairs around their homes
Fixed locks of all different types
Fixed sticky doors
Functional iron bars designed
Garage door
maintenance
Garage door replacement (I can refer you to someone)
Garage storage areas
Garage storage designed + built
Garages cleaned out
Gate hardware replaced
Gates built
Gates built from scratch
Gates repaired
Hasps and pad
locks installed
Help other people build their prefab sheds
Helped at garage sales (free of charge)
Helped children with school projects which required
power tools
Helped other people build all types of things
Helped people move furniture from one location to
another
Helped people shop for fixtures getting them great
deals
Helped property managers with all type of problems
Horse back riding with the Spanish Riding School of
Vienna (one summer one corsage ride) (retired)
I do not
subcontract, I can actually do all these things myself – it is pretty
amazing I think!
I show up when I say I will or I call if I am going to
be late
Ikea Cabinets and furniture assembled
Installed compartments into Mercedes
Kitchen modifications
and alternations
Kitchen cabinet door
relacement
Know a chauffeur
service that will pick you up and drop you off
Know a few companies who can manage your property
Know a good company who will waterproof your basement
Know a good honest mechanic
Know a good Travel Agency for Seniors
Know a great place to get an alignment for your car
(they are very honest and inexpensive)
Know a guy who can copy your prints into video
Know a guy who can scan your pictures for $ 1.00 Can.
each within 24 hours
Know a regular travel agency
Know a translator from Hungarian to English and visa
Versa
Know a very reasonable, good reliable trustworthy
maid $ 12.00/hr.
Know Good painters
Know good Plasterers
Knows a good accountant
Knows a good brick layer
Knows a good Electrician
Knows a good evestrougher
Knows A good Family Lawyer
Knows a good furnace guy
Knows a good garage door company
Knows a good Graphic Artist
Knows a good home inspection/engineering company
Knows a good landscaper
Knows a good Master of Ceremonies for parties and
functions
Knows a good photographer
Knows a good Plumber
Knows a good Printer
Knows a good real-estate Lawyer
Knows a good Roofer
Knows a good stereo store
Knows a good tree cutter
Knows a match maker
Knows good people in the computer help areas
Knows people who can copy video tapes from American
mode to European mode
Knows people who can help in software support
Knows someone who can organize your office so you
produce twice as much as before
Knows someone who can print up your invitations
Knows someone who knows about air floor in a house
Knows where to repair electronic goods
Knows who to call for what and in which order
Knows who to call when you want someone to video tape
your party or wedding
Knows where to shop to get great deals on just about
everything
Lawn and garden
care
Leaves raked
All types of locks installed in interior or exterior
doors, bolts gate closures
Loose door knobs tightened
Lubed +hung all types of doors and shutters
Make black and
white and colour prints in my own darkroom
Many decks repaired
Master of ceremonies at parties
Mediator
Minor landscaping
Modified a
wall unit,
so a big TV can be hidden in it.
Most people don’t have the time and just want it
(whatever) taken care of
Movies – Have been in a few and even one in Europe
Offices organized
Old carpet removed and disposed of
Old floor removed
Organized garage sales for people
Organized peoples tool rooms
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Painting, inside
and out
Passage locks installed and replaced
People hire me because they need help with a project
Planted flowers for realtors at houses which had to
sell fast (ask about your 24hr garden)
Plastered ceilings
Plastered walls
Playgrounds assembled from kits
Porches
Poured concrete
Privacy locks installed and replaced
Purchased and installed Christmas lights according to
a theme
Purchased Christmas trees
Purchased presents for people
Put up Christmas trees
Refer customers to
other customers who have their own businesses
Refinish some furniture
Removal of fallen trees
Repaired and installed pocket doors
Repaired retaining wall
Repaired all typed of garbage bins
Repaired many louver doors many closet doors
Replace washers in faucet's, replace windows, casement
windows too, garage
Replaced faucets (which I do not do anymore. I can
recommend a great plumber)
Reproduced old photographs for clients and printed
them out on colour ink jet
Restaurants designed and built – training in Hotel
restaurant and institutional admin. (Ryerson)
Rod iron design
Sanding and sealing
Scanned in pictures for customers for 2.00 ea.
Silicone caulking
Sheds and rabbit cages with electronic sensors
Sheds designed and built from scratch
Shelves of all types assembled and constructed
Shopped for others to buy tools, , secret rooms, rooms
for valuables,
Shower stalls cleaned
Small drywall jobs
Snow removal
Some commercial store front doors repaired, designed a
clothing store
Some people hire me because they do not have a clue
but want to learn
Some steel fabrication
Storage bins
What else can I do ?
Hold on to your pants cause
here we go!
Teach people how
to fix things around their homes.
Tell people where to go to get a better deal on some
things
Tuck pointing
Uneven pavement
filled + re-paved (I can only do small areas myself)
Vacuum cleaner
repair ( York Appliance on Avenue Rd.)
Vanities installed
Video editing and production (just a hobby right now)
So get it while it is cheap. Just 30.00/hr. for a
professional photographer As time permits.
Wash tubs removed and installed Washers
replaced in plumbing fixtures Waste disposal
Whole library designed and built
Windows caulked
Windows Unstuck Window cranks replaced
Window cranks repaired
Wine racks
designed and built from steel or wood
Working on new
Time Management software in Spare time.
As part of the Handy-Home referral Network. you will be
able to get just about any service or trade to your door hassle free.
Will travel anywhere in the world to get
things done! Have been to Germany, Hungary the U.S.A. Speak some German and
Hungarian as well.
My
rules
I show up when I
say I will
I call if I am
going to be late
I always inform you
of potential problems
I always try to
give you the simplest solutions to problems
If I make a mess, I
clean it up with my own vacuum
I always start a
digital timer when I arrive
I always stop that
timer if I go for lunch
I work quickly and
efficiently because I have little time
All my work is
guaranteed
Your satisfaction
is guaranteed
Many references
available upon request
I do not subcontract,
you need a contractor when you are building a home. You do not need one to
fix your fence. If I send you a person, you deal with them directly. If
you like them and hire them, you deal directly with them. Some give me a
small referral fee, some do the odd favour for me and from some I get
nothing. The most important thing to me is a happy customer.
For me, A happy
customer is a return customer and tells their friends about me. And this
is what I like.

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