Dave Knows The Drill

08/13/2025

10/15/2024

Painted this house last week. Did the cracks repair in the stucco, went over the repairs with oil based primer and the painted the entire home. The brown trim stayed the same using color matched paint. The base color was changed from white to an off white that was slightly yellowish. I think it came out nice.

09/14/2024

This lady was my first customer before I started this business. This paint job started out with me caulking and painting all the windows. She asked for an estimate on painting the exterior and detached garage. So here's the finished product. Took me right around 22 to 24 hrs.

08/22/2024

Finished a double bathroom remodel. I removed a tub with center drain and replaced it with a right hand drain tub. Full direct to stud surround. Replaced the old plumbing with new pex. Replaced all the old drain from the center to right hand. Replaced the old drywall with greenboard. Fixed the skylights that were finished wrongly before.
On the second bathroom, I Replaced the tiny stand up shower with a full sized walk in shower. Pulled the old wall the tiny shower was on and rebuilt a new wall. Moved all the drain plumbing 3 feet to the right to accommodate the new drain system. All new greenboard. Full direct to stud shower surround. Sprayed knockdown texture on both bathrooms. Installed all new flooring in both bathrooms

05/24/2024

This was the mess I found when I removed the old tub surround. I removed all the bad drywall up two feet, replaced it with greenboard and a new five piece surround. Painted it for the homeowner and done.

05/24/2024

05/23/2024

This house was a lot of work. I chased out all the cracks in the stucco with a masonry cutting wheel on my 5" grinder. Then using stucco patch, I repaired all of the cracks , then sponge washed all of the new stucco to match the rest. I repaired all of the corners that were broken and letting water into the wood underneath.
I cut out all of the window frames that were rotted out and installed drip flashing above them and the front door. Put in all new brick molding and new sills where needed. I used water putty on some of the older wood that wasn't rotted, but weathered bad enough that it was going to rot if not protected.
I painted all new wood and window frames with Killz oil based paint, then over the top of that with Behr paint.
Finally the painting began and was able to get the entire body painted in two days.

03/23/2024

I have this beautiful oak woodworking table. I gave my sweetie my best table, so now I have to try to make the bottom like the one I gave my sweetheart. The base on hers has some mortise and tenon and I want to copy that. My issue is that I don't have any tools to do the mortise and tenon without a jig. So, using my table saw I was able to cut the tenon fairly easy. The mortise is a bit different. I'm drilling a series of small holes to make it easier to cut out with my wood chisel. My chisels are trashed because before I started doing a lot of woodworking I used them to chisel concrete and everything under the sun.

02/20/2024

Got the bathroom remodel done. I did 100% of the work. My wife picked the colors and all the eye candy on the finished product.