by LJ Baker | Aug 22, 2026 | Job diary
Adventures of a Handy Human… today is cleaning Friday. Two houses, and then my own, as well as taking a client shopping. The shopping part surprises people when they hear it. It is not really a cleaning job and it is not really a handyman job. It is just something...
by LJ Baker | Jun 30, 2025 | Job diary
Spent the end of the month on baseboard and trim. Baseboard looks like the simplest job in the house until you get to a corner. Walls are never square. Not in an old house, not in a new one either. So you can cut a perfect forty-five degree mitre and still end up with...
by LJ Baker | Jun 26, 2025 | Job diary
This one had gotten away from the owners. Not their fault… life happens, and a yard does not wait for you. Started knee-high. Weeds through the beds, growth right up the fence line, the sort of thing where you cannot really see where the lawn stops and the border...
by LJ Baker | Jun 20, 2025 | Job diary
Adventures of a Handy Human… this week was water and hinges. First one was a stone fountain in a back garden that had stopped running. Nine times out of ten that is not the fountain, it is the line feeding it or a valve that has seized up. This one was the line. Got...
