Veteran Home Improvement

10/23/2025

Replace rotted facia and trim that had a wood pe**er/ bat cave in it. Remove gutter, replace rotted wood with primed and painted pine. Caulk and touch up pine. Re pitch gutter toward downspout. Add drip strip under drip ended and over gutter backing. Homeowners are having me come back too replace a kitchen cabinet, another rake board with a bat hole. And jack up roof and deck where posts have rotted. Wich is the reason the roof looks like it takes a dive and why the gutter looks high but is actually pitched just enough. Roof is sagging about an inch at the post watch the videoThe bat was clinging to the inside of the rake board.I didn't even realize it till I had the board almost all the way pulled off. He acted like he didn't know how to fly at first.But once we pushed him off the deck, he took flight and flew into the woods.So no need to worry.We saved his life, but we did take his home and block him from the soffit for good.

04/23/2025

Just wanted too repost this job from last spring. Anyone looking too have their old d3ck freshened up lmk. Great alternative too replacing. Refinish, replace necessities and paint.

02/07/2025

Waiting for better weather too get back too this 10x12 walk out. Few photos of the deck a week before

01/28/2025

Really like this larson security storm door system.

01/27/2025

Call Veteran Home Improvement for your home improvement updates, remodel, or building needs. Everything from framing, sheetrock, flooring, decks, roofing, doors, windows, rly anything. even exterior hardscape. Patio, walkways, small walls

01/25/2025

11/01/2024

Okay, auto, body and painters. Please don't judge me. I haven't painted a car in almost twenty years.Besides little repairs here and there... I went back-and-forth, turning the pressure up-and-down. Got it spraying, really nice, but then I had tons of overspray and was using a lot of paint, so I tried turning the pressure down and ended up getting a ton of orange peel. I should have just blew through the paint and laid it on nice like I was doing at first. But of course, I wanted to make sure I had enough pain. So I tried finding a happy medium next time. I will just get extra paint and lay it on like I had it going at first a few sections came out very nice and then I tried adjusting the gun and they came out a little dry, but all in all it looks okay. It is shiny red anyways, lol and again, this isn't a show truck. It is a work truck. My goal was longevity not perfection... Next is the two tone, black flares and paint the roof black and windows and up... Debating, if i'm going to paint the moldings, black, or leave them red any suggestions? It's like a midnight black with silver metallics. That's gonna be the roof and the Fender flares. I was debating on doing the molding, but i'm not sure now... I had the tailgate looking perfect because I had it laid on heavy and it is flat, but then I turned the gun down and tried doing a second coat. Now it looks like an entire orange peel. Please don't judge me l o l...

10/31/2024

Dang, I forgot to prime the tailgate. I will have to do it in the morning and hopefully it will be dry enough when I go to paint the rest of the truck after noontime. The primer came out okay for doing it outside. The bodywork is mediocre, to say the best. There are still things everywhere. But I got very impatient and need to put this truck back together. I can't take any more time off of work. It's not a real restoration, it's just making my work truck rust, resistant and look nice again.
It would be silly to spend another week, making it look perfect to go plow with it.And let my laborer drive it around but this raptor anti corrosive primer lays on pretty good. It's an epoxy primer, so it lays on like glass, but you have to spray it like it's a clear coat, nice and heavy but I would use it again.We will see how it holds up.That will be the real test...