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From Army Chef to DIY Extraordinaire

After 25 years serving in the Army as a Chef and Career Manager, my time was up and it was time for pastures new. It all began when I completed a multi trade course when leaving the services, the logic behind that being I could be self sufficient when finally following the dream that every forces person has in entering that “forever home”. On the course, I found to my surprise that I actually enjoyed and got some great satisfaction on seeing my new skills in tiling, plastering etc progress over the 5 weeks.

From there I followed Mrs DIYSi to Gibraltar where I started tinkering around with pallets making garden furniture and then onto making radiator covers for the ugly storage heaters that were in our house. Word soon got around and I found myself creating more and more of these items, each one being better than the one before as my skill set grew.

On coming back to the UK with a new hobby and proper DIY shops on my doorstep I set about challenging myself to bigger projects for friends who needed help with house maintenance and storage solutions, this was a hobby and I was also holding down a full time job.

Recognising the market, after hearing various complaints from friends that they could not get tradespeople to acknowledge quote requests etc because the jobs were simply not big enough or worth their time, I made the biggest and bravest step (apart from marrying Mrs DIYSi) to give up my real job and set up my business!

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