WATER STAINS ON THE WALLS OR ON THE CEILING

   Heavy rain can cause leaks where you never have had leaks before. This is due to the saturation of water. When you have so much water getting in that it builds up and gets through.
  Realize if you have water damage inside you need to fix it outside where it is coming from and not to try and stop it on the inside. The important thing is to fix it properly so it will not happen again.
   This is usually a leak in the roof or where the rain gutter meets the house. And in some rare instances, by a leaking pipe in the ceiling or wall. Once you have the roof patched or the leak handled you now have a stain that needs to be taken care of.
   If the stain is on a painted wall or ceiling and you know the color, you just need to paint the stain first with an oil base primer (so the stain will not come through the paint), then paint it with the correct color. If you need to match the color then you can go to a hardware store that has a means to computer match paint and get paint matched that way. If you have a “cottage cheese” ceiling that has not been painted and is clean, it would be best if you got some white “Kilz” spray paint and spray the stain with that.

Got Questions? Need Help? Call me at (818)548-8760 - Randy

What Do You Mean, Have I Fixed The Roof?

     Many times I go to a house and the customer wants me to fix water damage in some ceiling in the house. The first thing that I say to the customer is “Have you fixed the roof?” The response I often get is “What do you mean” . . . or “Why do you ask?”

     Water damage on the upstairs ceiling or the ceiling of a one story house is generally caused by a roof leak.

     First of all it is unusual for a house to have pipes in the attic and secondly if there are pipes in the attic it is unusual for them to be leaking.

     This is also true with damage to the walls unless they are near a window, shower, sink or toilet.

     What you need to do before calling me to fix a water damaged ceiling or wall is to note the history of the damage.

     Does it only get worse when it is raining or has it just rained?

     Does it only get worse when you use the shower upstairs?

     Does it constantly get worse no matter what the weather is doing or how much you use the sink, shower or toilet?

     The more I know about what the characteristics of the damage to the ceiling and/or walls are, the easier it will be for me to figure out what is causing the damage.

     Got questions? Don’t hesitate to call me at (818) 548-8760. I’m always here to help.

A Man's Home is His Castle . . .

I not only remodel but do additions and can built you a house from the ground up.  

I also don’t limit it to just castles but can also do…

abodes, accommodations, addresses, bungalows, cabins, caves, chateaus, citadels, cribs, cubbyholes, digs, domiciles, dumps, dwellings, establishments, flats, forts, garrisons, habitats, hangouts, haunts, hideouts, homes, houses, huts, joints, lodgings, manors, mansions, nests, pads, palaces, quarters, residences, resorts, roosts, shanties, shelters, strongholds, towers and of course villas.

I have been in construction for over 30 years…

 Since I was 19 years old I have been doing construction and I have been a licensed general contractor since 1995. 

 I started in 1977, I learned the trade doing it from the ground up for 18 years, my first job in construction was digging trenches for the foundations of houses, then doing miscellaneous jobs, then into construction trades (framing, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, painting and many more) up till 1990 when I became "Randy the Handyman" for 5 years. then became a Licensed Contractor, in Glendale, California in 1995.  

For the next 24 years, 1995 to 2019, I have built up a pool of sub-contractors to do most anything.  I now specialize in residential remodels, additions and houses from the ground up. 

Got something? Call me - (818) 548-8760 or visit my web atwww.newcastleremodeling.com

 I know what it takes to get a job done and can spot when things are being done correctly or incorrectly. 

I would like to have the opportunity to do a project for you, construction is what I do.

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