Garage Door Facelift

This was a big job. The old paint was cracked and peeling, and had to be removed. Three cans of paint stripper and many hours of scraping later, the doors were finally ready to be painted. First a coat of primer, then brown paint on the frames, green paint on the panels, some new hardware, and now the doors are looking great!

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Cracked and peeling paint

The doors after being scraped and all gaps and holes filled with caulk

With white primer, the doors look clean and new

The frames are painted brown and the panels green

Painting is complete and new handles and locks are installed

Chair Repair Video

The following is a short video illustrating a chair repair I did recently.

Passover Project

Below are some pictures of matzah holder I built for Pesach(Passover). I designed it around a square ke’arahI had to hold square machine matzos. The front has double doors through with the matzah can be placed on the three shelves inside, and I carved the sides and back with depictions of a lamb for the pesach offering, three square matzos, and a horseradish for marror. It’s made from red oak panels.

Closet Rollout

This is a piece I’m building to make use of a deep, narrow closet. The closet is six feet deep and only two feet wide. It has a hanger bar running from the front to back, but the customer wants to be able to use it to store more than just hanging clothes. Simply stacking boxes in the closet is impractical, as the only way to get to boxes in the back would be to empty the closet. The solution is this rollout, which allows the entire stack of boxes to be pulled out of the closet at once.

 The rollout is designed around a set of 1’x1’x8” storage boxes the customer has. The boxes sit on 2x3s and are kept aligned by a frame made of 1x2s. It rolls on 2” casters attached to its underside. A pull bar about a foot from the top allows the rollout to be easily maneuvered.

Materials and labor - which includes accessing the problem, coming up with a solution, designing the piece, building the rollout, and assembling it at the customer’s home – comes to $150.

[Rollout was designed using Google Sketchup]


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Update 02/23/11

Some pictures of the finished rollout in front of the closet it was designed for.

Welcome

Hello, and welcome to the Super Fixer blog. Here you will find posts with photos and descriptions of some of my work.

Super Fixer is a small furniture repair and home improvement business, now serving the Pittsburgh, PA area. Whenever possible, furniture is repaired on-site in customer’s homes, thereby relieving them of the burden of brining their furniture to a repair center.

Super Fixer offers repair assembly services for furniture, small home repairs, drywall hanging and repairs, painting, light fixture and ceiling fan installation, and custom-built storage shelving, bookcases, and cabinets.

Super Fixer has been operating in New York (under the name “Travelling Chair Repair) since 2007 and has repaired furniture for many satisfied New Yorkers. Since February 2011, Super Fixer has been offering services in Pittsburgh.