Author: Daniel Leach

What’s the difference between an Estimate and a Service Call?For me, it’s whether or not tools are required. An estimate is when I come to your site, walk it with you, and you provide me with the details of what you want done. If I have to use tools to figure out what’s wrong with […]

Moving ever forward, I’ve been cleaning up the website content, and now the blog as well. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than it was! I am still looking for a website designer, but haven’t had any good connections so far, so if you know someone who’s open to modernizing my website without asking me […]

“An owner’s representative operates as part of the project team, but they work under a separate contract held with the owner. Their role is to act on behalf of the owner to oversee the entire project. This can include the planning, design, construction and commissioning, as well as the closeout phases.” When I perform the […]

Under the heading, ‘Custom Field Projects’, I got an interesting lead for a client that wanted some overhead garage storage shelves moved about to make room for hanging a recumbent trike from the ceiling, and I was immediately piqued! At our first site visit, I was presented with a tidy drawing on graph paper showing […]

I first tackled a recovery project when a neighbor of a project I was on came over and asked me if I would take a look at the mess their previous contractor had left behind.I’d spent a lot of time with this neighbor already; she had come over most every day after I introduced myself […]