Handyman/carpenter?

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

Good morning DSLJ,

I did search the previous tags back a few years before asking this, and have put calls into a few of the suggestions, but wondering if anyone could recommend a handyman/carpenter for a smallish renovation job? We have closets in two bedrooms that adjoin each other (the two closets' share their back wall) and are very oddly shaped (like good New England closets usually are). We'd like to have the wall between them taken down and put back up to make them equal/standard size closets. Apparently this is too small of a job for the bigger name company's, the three I have called so far have all said it is too small to be worth their time. Any recommendations? (we have a call into the Kris, who was recommended here on the furniture repair post). If no recommendations come from here, we'll likely start calling random people off craigslist (but I always like some sort of referral if possible!)

Thanks!

Comments

[irilyth]

I've had good experiences with Rick Miller, +1.617.331.3321.

[queenof-sarcasm.livejournal.com]

Wholeheartedly second Rick Miller, who took out a cabinet in my kitchen last month.

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

Not sure I understand, are you expecting that the shared wall is greater than 2x4 and thus that if you replaced it with a 2x4 wall you'd gain enough space to increase the depths of both closets enough to make them at least a now standard 24"?

I'm busy with a project until spring but maybe this is something you could tackle yourself for framing and hire out the drywall/blueboard part.

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a little hard to explain. The wall in between the two closets is definitely spaced with a 2x4.... but the wall itself is at an angel, so looking into one closet, it is only about 8" deep on the left side, but on the right side it's 18" deep. The closet in the other room is 32" deep on the right side, and around 20" on the left side. I'm pretty sure if we take that wall down, we could end up with 20" (ish) wide closets for both of them.

I agree my husband and I (and maybe a third helper) could probably tackle the demo (we've already started that) and possibly even the framing, but he seems less than excited about it right now (which is why i'm looking for quotes for someone more experienced to do it). I figure a handyman/carpenter could probably do it faster than we could, which given busy schedules might be worth the money. we would definitely hire out the drywall/blueboard part. that's what started the whole project (wanting to just have the drywall redone, and then realizing maybe if we're doing that, we should actually try to make both closets functional).

Hope that helps explain it a little better? :)

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

OK, would have to sketch it out to confirm. You might want to consider whether you want one to be 24" so more standard and the other 16" (so it could be a linen closet). If one of the bedrooms has another closet this might be acceptable. Then you'd get two that are nice for their purposes, rather than two that are still kind of tight for their purposes. I guess I haven't tried to see if 20" is a real sacrifice. Also you might be able to do a 2x3 wall instead to pick up an inch.

[kent37.livejournal.com]

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