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Darby C

Flowery Branch, GA
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About Me:

I have worked in residental construction for over 15 years. I have completed new homes, renovated apartments into town homes, and turned a old dry cleaners into office suites. I have worked all stages of home construction from digging footings to finish carpentry.

Favorite area of home improvement:

I enjoy taking on the projects that are difficult to solve. I work very hard on roof and basement leaks.


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  • The garden shed.
  • Garden walk.
  • The herb garden.
  • Come meet the chickens.
  • Part of the front yard.
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Garden Tour

Many of the porjects that I have posted on Hometalk have been done at my parents house. My mother is a Master Gardener in Hall County. Every year they have a tour of gardens in the ...»
county. This year my mothers garden is on the tour. The tour is May 18th. Here is a link for more information on the tour http://hcmgs.com/garden-walk . I have posted some pictures, but I have not shown you everything that is there. Come on out and see the garden.

Darby C
Darby C Flowery Branch, GA 6 days ago
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  • Douglas Hunt
    Douglas Hunt 5 days ago
    Your mother's garden is a showplace and I'm not one bit surprised it is on a garden tour. ...»
    Thanks for giving us a cyber visit.

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  • The drawers busted out and felll apart.  Time for something new.
  • My little helper, Diana.  We used 2x2 to hold the sides and the shelves are MDF.
  • Almost finished product.  Just have to get some more baskets and maybe a door.

Fixing a broken dresser.

My oldest daughters dresser we have had for a few years. The drawers fell apart, but the shell was still good. I put these shelves in and bought some cloth cubes in it. I just have to ...»
figure out how to finish it. I think I am going to find some wood shutters to put on the outside and then paint the whole thing. Any ideas?

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Darby C Flowery Branch, GA on Apr 28, 2013
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    Gail Salminen on Apr 29, 2013
    Darby C nicely done! And you ...»
    taught your little helper that not everything is trash, it looks amazing. I am sure she appreciates it all the more because she participated. I personally am in favour of the shelves with baskets look! Thanks for posting :)

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  • The kids wore the old swing out.  What a great place for a chicken house.
  • The bones are 6X6 rough sawn pressure treated pine.
  • Looks kinda like stone henge.
  • Now it looks like a chicken house.
  • Stick built roof.  The roofing material is tin.
  • This is the front view.
  • Were getting there.
  • This cabinate is where the chicknes will lay the eggs.  We have access from the outside to make it easier to get them.
  • This is the Yard.
  • The finished product.
  • This is the side view.  If you look close at the bottom of the coop you can see a small door to make it easier to clean out.
  • Here is the yard.  The swing set was repurposed to give the chickens something to play on.
  • Here is where the chickens will lay the eggs.
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My parents' chicken house.

My parents wanted to put a small chicken house on their land. We built a pole barn and included the coop and a yard that is fenced in with hardware wire. The windows and door were bought ...»
at the Habitat for Humanity Restore. It is a great place to find things for projects.

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Darby C Flowery Branch, GA on Apr 28, 2013
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    Miriam I on Apr 29, 2013
    It looks amazing Darby!
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  • My middle daughter and youngest daughter with the leprechaun trap.
  • My middle and youngest daughter with the leprechaun trap.

Leprechaun Trap 2013

My middle daughter and I have been placing a leprechaun trap at our house every St. Patricks day eve for the last few years. She really wants to get a leprechaun. Here are pictures of ...»
this years trap. I used some hardware wire that I had left over to make a cage and attached it to the 2x10 with staples. I bought a pulley and the string. She and I spent about a hour building the trap. On the table we put a bowl or green ice cream and used a spoon to trigger the trap. The trap was sprung and the ice cream was eaten, but the little bugger go away.

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Darby C Flowery Branch, GA on Mar 17, 2013
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    Miriam I on Mar 18, 2013
    This is so cute, Darby!
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Shameless plug alert

**Shameless plug alert**

With no offense intended to my Hometalk frineds.

A good friend of mine is going to be at the Northside Nursery on Peachtree Industrial Blvd in Sugar Hill. His name is Rusty Saye and he owns Perfect Image Landscaping. They are having a family fun day. He will be there to give advice and free hugs!

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Darby C Flowery Branch, GA on Sep 14, 2012
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Home Maintenance & Repairs: The $350 garbage disposer?

I got a message from one of my long term clients yesterday about some kitchen sink leaks, when I called her back a few hours later she said she had already had a "rooter" firm come in ...»
and "fix" it. I got to swing by later to check on the water damage to the cabinet base shelf. The Cabinets are older and not so great and the drips have caused the particle board base to turn to mush. So I'll be back early next week to do some cabinet surgery / repair.

Inside the sink base was a new Badger 5 ...1/2 horsepower disposer...connected to the old plumbing of the sink that I installed some 4 or 5 years ago. On the kitchen table was an invoice for this work, and some "snaking" of the drain...the Drain snaking was listed at about $122. The total invoice for the snaking and disposer was $442. The Badger 5 was listed at $354 dollars with "discount" down to $327. This Badger 5 is the most basic disposer I have seen at my local Home Depot (they sell it for about $85, and you can get them on amazon for about $75 or $76)

Even on a bad day I can install one of these in about an hour (that is with a complete revamp of the pluming tee, opposite drain etc)...and most times its about 30 min. for a direct swap out.

I later called my client and gave her some of this info....needless to say she was a bit pissed off by being taken to the cleaners for this install.

I mean really....listing a $85 disposer at $354 installed is just criminal in my book.

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KMS Woodworks Nederland, CO
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    Commented on Sep 07, 2012
    Often times, with leaks like this, the homeowner just files a claim in their homeowners ...»
    insurarance. The insurace companies will just often pay the bill if the homeowner has incurred the cost already. So these companies know that they can get paid without any problem, so they charge what they want and lable the extra cost as "emergency service" or "Service after hours".

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