Are you looking for ways to reduce the cost of home repair or improvements to your home or maybe even do it yourself? You’ll find useful information and some links to great home improvement related information here. I started my first handyman business in New Jersey in 2005 after 25 years in the corporate world in the printing and packaging fields.
Advertising my business in the very rural area I lived in was literally as simple as posting a simple flyer in the local grocery store. It’s funny really, and this actually happened; when I got home from the grocery store, my phone was blinking. The message was from a guy who wanted me to install a digital thermostat in his house. I ended up doing several jobs for him and he was a loyal customer until I left Jersey to come back home to Texas.
Maybe I was lucky, or there was a need for handyman where I was at the time; but…my dad was a jack-of-all-trades and taught me how to lay floors and build things with wood well before my tenth birthday; so even though I know a thing or two about printing, my woodworking roots go way, way back. By my late teens I had my own basic design for built in shelves that I perfected over the years and still use the same design features whenever I get the chance.
A true handyman never stops learning, and while no one is really an expert at everything, you will find that virtually every handyman has some specific areas of expertise while constantly expanding his knowledge base. Most of the projects on this website are my own, and I take pictures whenever possible; to share, of course! “How To Turn A Skylight Into A Work Of Art” is a perfect example of a project I thoroughly enjoyed, which gave me an opportunity to exploit one of my strengths as a handyman.
My business is a sole proprietorship called Thousand Hills Properties and I work the northeast corner of Dallas county from my home in Rowlett, Texas; laying floors, painting, building room additions, installing ceiling fans, building sheds and, well…you get the idea.
