Customer's Little Fixer-Upper

This home came in needing some obvious repair work (mostly shingles and window work)...

Before: back of house

Before: front of house

You can see where the shingles on the back roof needed to be replaced.  As well as some on the side and front roof that needed to be replaced...

Before: Back and side roof need replacement shingles

Before: front roof missing a large section of shingles

I found some left over shingles from another project and did some painting to match...

The shingles in a row are from the house

They weren't quite the same shape and the new painted shingles were a flat finish whereas the old shingles had a faded semigloss coat on them, but overall they blended in well enough.

Back and side roof now shingled

Front roof is now shingled

Customer wanted the shag carpets removed (she wants to pick out and install new carpets herself).

Customer also wanted us to remove this carpet, which I had already begun to pull up before I remembered to take a pic

So it doesn't look particularly pretty, but floor is ready for it's next carpet now.

I also removed all the broken window panes and installed one plexiglass pane in each window opening. And I reattached the front door with a tape hinge (door is too thin for a hinge and customer didn't want to spend an additional hour of labor it would take to install the hinge onto the door and house when child will probably just break it off. So I opted for a tape hinge so door still opens/closes but quick, easy fix for mom when it breaks off again after excess use.)

Overall this quick little job gave this "good-bones" house a much needed fix-up.

BEFORE: back of house (Once more)

AFTER (overall view of back of house)

BEFORE: front of house (again)

AFTER: front of house

I cannot believe it is November already!  Have two more customer houses coming in this month for work so I need to get some more of these houses that are still here finished!