Mike Hamson - Handyman - Shepshed

Mike Hamson - Handyman - Shepshed Reliable & trustworthy handyman in Shepshed & surrounding areas. 35 years of aerospace experience, 40+ years in home improvement.

From small repairs to general maintenance, no job is too small.
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SOMETIMES A RELATIVELY SIMPLE CHANGE CAN HAVE A LARGE IMPACT ON A ROOMA good customer of mine has recently had much of...
30/04/2026

SOMETIMES A RELATIVELY SIMPLE CHANGE CAN HAVE A LARGE IMPACT ON A ROOM

A good customer of mine has recently had much of her house redecorated by a professional painter and decorator. He did a lovely job, but my customer felt even more could be done to create the impact that she was after.

This is when she began to have me change sockets, light switches, light fittings et cetera, a bit at a time, as budget allowed.

Below are a couple of examples of where I have swapped out the normal white plastic fixings, for something slightly more visually appealing. The cost of doing this is not great, but hopefully you’ll agree that the impact of the change is quite striking.

Do you have any examples of where a relatively small/simple/cheap change within your home has had a really big positive visual impact, that you’d care to share?

HOW LUCKY WAS I? Driving home after doing a few jobs in Castle Donington, I turned down the Diseworth Road and saw some...
21/04/2026

HOW LUCKY WAS I?

Driving home after doing a few jobs in Castle Donington, I turned down the Diseworth Road and saw something I’ve never seen before and probably never will again.

There, perched casually on a road sign was a magnificent bird of prey.

I stopped at the car, backed up a bit (it’s electric so no engine noise to disturb it) and manage to take this photo. It just sat there looking at me as if to say “what are you messing at human?”.

It certainly didn’t seem bothered by my presence, so I just drove off quietly and left it in peace.

AI had a look at the photograph and said it’s a kestrel, and I don’t know enough about birds of prey to be sure if that is correct or not.

If you know for sure what it is, please comment below as I’d love to know.

Mike

DETERMINED NOT TO HAVE A STAIR LIFT, BUT FINDING STAIRS A BIT OF A STRUGGLE?This is the situation that one of my custome...
15/04/2026

DETERMINED NOT TO HAVE A STAIR LIFT, BUT FINDING STAIRS A BIT OF A STRUGGLE?

This is the situation that one of my customers found himself in, as he has become increasingly unsteady on his feet. Going up the stairs wasn’t too bad, but coming back down was a bit nerve racking with only one handrail.

The solution was a sturdy banister, fixed solidly to the wall. He now has two things to hold onto while coming down the stairs and told me he feels far more confident and in control.

So that was an easy and quite elegant solution that will hopefully prevent my customer from falling down the stairs and hurting himself.

Do you find yourself doing something that makes you think, “…..this is a bit dodgy!“, but you keep doing it anyway, without putting a solution in place? Or maybe you don’t know what the solution may be.

Let me know, I may be able to help with some advice.

SINATRA** HAD THE “RAT PACK”, I’VE GOT “FLAT PACK”…Furniture that needs assembly can be a daunting proposition and, if y...
08/04/2026

SINATRA** HAD THE “RAT PACK”, I’VE GOT “FLAT PACK”…

Furniture that needs assembly can be a daunting proposition and, if you’re not careful, it’s all too easy to put a panel in upside down or back to front, or to over-tighten the fixings so the wood chipboard splits and will no longer hold. Ask me how I know🫣. But I learned from my mistakes…..

However, if you approach it in a systematic manner, reading the instructions thoroughly (maybe more than once) and laying out all the components to check they are all there, it should be okay. I find that works for me, anyway.

Here are a couple of photos of my latest projects for a customer; the small bed was from IKEA (Malm), the other was from another company, but the principle is the same.

How do you find building flat pack? Straightforward or a nightmare? Do you have any tips or failure stories you might care to share with me and other members?

** For those lucky people who are too young to know, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and a couple of other guys were in a “gang” that wore tuxedos, drank martinis, and exuded pure mid-century cool in 1960’s Las Vegas, with rumours of links to the “mob”. So now you know!

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