LANGWERPIG (699K)
2 TIMMEREN
TEXT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE UNDER IMAGES
GROOT (1782K)
1 (169K)
2 (318K)
3 (346K)
4 (163K)
5 (317K)
6 (180K)
7 (335K)
8 (193K)
9 (244K)
OD JOBS IN HOUSE & GARDEN

>>>

#LIST OF SERVICES:

>>>

CARPENTRY: For example: repairing furniture, attach shelves to wall. Install a cabinet or table adapted to fit in the interior of your house. Making customized mosquito net in windows, hang art paintings on wall, attach handles in shower or toilet, making steps, laying a wooden floor, or repair it, partition wall construction dividing room in two, replace rotten plank in floor, repair new plinth, repair stairs, repair doors draft proof, repair furniture, making toys & furniture for your children, etc.

>>>

ELECTRICITY: And I can certainly install & repair anything that is not incorporated in walls. For example: installing & repairing sockets, extension cords for electrical devices, & lighting, etc. I can even try to detect & repair a defect in a wire incorporated in a tube in your wall. But I can not repair problems in your main electricity house meter.

>>>

HOUSE REORGANIZING: My house is extremely well organized! You can see that on the photos on this website. Because I am very precise and analytical in character. If you are very sloppy in character, but you still want to have a neat tidy house, you can hire me. I can reorganize all your phisical household goods, and also your paper notebooks & dossiers and digital folders in your computer. If you're just a little sloppy, I'll do it for a normal price. But if you're a notorious hoarder, hopeless addicted to stuff your house full of useless things, and your house is full to the brim with your collection, so much that it is no longer possible to just walk around, then I will have to charge a high price for helping you. And I will only do it, if you are ready to cooperate. Because I hear stories of hoarders, who get a professional helper, who visits ones a week, and you talk a bit with that person, but nothing really change, because you are not really ready to lett go of any of your rubish!!!

>>>

OTHER TYPES OF OD JOBS IN HOUSE: Repair of walls and / or ceiling & repair of windows. Fill cracks in walls, repair tiles, make windows draft-tight, blinds, curtains, edge bathtub sealants, insulate pipes, flatten concrete floor, attach air conditioning to ceiling, design & construct a new & very practical kitchen, make from neglected, not jet used, basement and attic living spaces, etc.

>>>

GARDEN WORK: For example: Weeding, trenching garden barge, putting new ornamental plants, building a terrace, making garden furniture of wood in a shape you want, wall bricklaying in the garden, building a garden path, bird house, tree house for your children, sandbox for toddlers, grow box for vegetables. garden gate & garden wall, etc.

>>>

WHAT I WILL NOT DO: I don't do painting chores because I can't do that as perfectly as a professional painter, and I don't like this kind of work, and it's bad for my health to work with chemical paint. Furthermore, I don't do other types of chores that are bad for my health. Furthermore, I do not make repairs to rooftops. Because it is very difficult to make them leak-proof. Furthermore, I do not do plumbing, because I am not trained enough to do that properly.

>>>

#GENERAL INTRODUCTION & DESCRIPTION OF WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU & WHO I AM.

>>>

Dear customer. If chores need to be done in your home or garden, and you don't have time to do it yourself, because you have a busy job, or you don't have the right tools for that, or you're not handy enough in this field, whether you are physically disabled, or no longer so well up to your feet because of old age, then i am willing to do it for you! I come to your house on a bicycle and trailer cart. I designed this cart myself, and had it constructed by Smederij "Balk" here in Amsterdam West! I use that to transport my tools. According to astrology I am born under constellation Cancer, so I have a domestic character: I like to spend a lot of time and attention and love to make my house confortable & cozy. So I will do the same with your house too!

>>>

IT DEPENDS ON THE SEASON WHAT KIND OF WORK I DO: In spring & summer I would love to do chores in gardens, and in autumn & winter I would prefer to do chores in houses. But I am willing to make an exception to that rule. But if I have a choice I will stick to this rule.

>>>

#MY RULES FOR SMALL JOBS:

I only do small jobs if there is no demand for large jobs. My definition of a "small" job is if it takes less than 6 hours of work. If this is the case, then you do not need to read the contract below, nor sign it. If you live in districkt Baarsjes, I will come to your house on foot or on my bike for free, to see what needs to be done. I do no small jobs outside Baarsjes. We make an oral appointment in an informal way, based as much as possible on trust. My working wages are 30 euros per hour including VAT. You pay half in advance, cash, or on my company bank account, whatever you want. If you pay first half cash, please do that during first visit. If you transfer it to my account, I will start working ones I have received it. Then I come back to your house and take my bicycle trailer with me full of tools. If you have a very small job for me, I mean that the work is done after 5 minutes, then I'm counting anyway the full hourly wages. So if you hire me, you will have to spend at least 30 euros.

>>>

#PHONING: I don't have a smartphone. I have a simple cell phone. I keep it at home, so I never carry it with me. So I'm only available by phone when I'm at home. The most likely you can reach me by phone is between eight & nine o'clock in the evening. I am almost always at home. If I am not at home after all at that time, try again the next evening. When the phone rings, I first put on a heatset, it takes time. I do that because cell phones emit cancer-causing radiation. Please wait at least one minute for me to connect. If you break off contact already after 10 seconds, you will never be able to get in touch with me. My phone number is: 0 6 - 2 3 . 2 8 . 6 9 . 9 8.

>>>

#WORK CONTRACT SPECIAL FOR LARGE JOBS:

>>>

ARTIKET ONE: INTRODUCTION: Usually people don't read contracts. Because they are usually typed full of complicated incomprehensible legal terms. But that does not apply to this contract! I designed it myself. And it is short, so reading only takes you 5 to 10 minutes! If you have a big job for me, the condition is that you sign this contract, so you better read it!

>>>

#ARTIKEL TWO: LIST OF DISTRIKTS IN AMSTERDAM WHERE I DO BIG JOBS:

>>>

>>>

#ARTIKEL THREE: PROCEDURE:

>>>

>>>

#ARTIEKEL FOUR: WORKING TIME:

>>>

I strive to do as many big jobs as possible, which take at least a whole working day. That way it is worth for me to drive full of tools, all the way to your house, on my bike & trailer cart and back home after work, because some customers live all the way on the other side of Amsterdam.

>>>

I only work one day a week. On that day I spend six hours working. At 10 o'clock in the morning I start, and continue until 4 o'clock in the afternoon without a break. As for the day of the week, I prefer to do that on Friday. But if you have a good reason that I come to work on another day of the week, then I am willing to do so. But in the spring & summer never on Sunday, because then I do something else. If your job has to be finished quickly, I may be willing to work more than a day a week.

>>>

#ARTIEKEL FIVE: MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS:

>>>

>>>

#ARTIKEL FIVE: PRICES:

>>>

DAILY WAGES: I calculated the daily wages in the following way: 6 hours X 30 € = 180 €. This means that working wages are based on a daily wage of 180 € including VAT. Then I estimate the number of working days. If later it turns out that work time is less or more days than agreed, total price remains the same.

>>>

WHEN PAYING: Before starting work, you pay half of wages on my company bank account. You pay the other half within a week after end of this job, also on my company bank account.

>>>

COSTS OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: If raw materials, or parts, or additional tools, are needed to do your job, there are of course two options: you pay them, or I pay them. In the first case, make sure that the materials & parts & tools are present at the workplace before the start of your job. In the second case, I want the money I need to buy / rent them at the beginning of work. I mean I can't advance it. Money can still be added for delivery, if it is big or heavy or a lot, because I don't have a car yet. I do have a bicycle trailer, but that is only suitable for transporting my tools.

>>>

IN CASE OF PAYING TOO LATE: If you have still not paid the second half of the wages a week after the end of this job in question, I will call you regularly, and ring the doorbell, and put invoices in your letterbox, until you have paid. The goal of my company is to make money, because I really need money! I try to do the work with love, but as far as money is concerned, I'm sorry, but there's a need behind it! If you pay for everything we have agreed, I will be very friendly to you. But if you don't pay, my attitude changes. Can you please realize that, before you start working with my business, because that is the reality of all commercial companies!

>>>

#ARTIEKEL SIX: EXCEPTIONS ON TOP RULES:

>>>

In special circumstances I am willing to deviate from the above rules. Because it is simply impossible to capture the world in rules. I review every situation and will think about your job consciously and strive to judge it fairly. I am not someone stuck with rules. So if you want it differently, you can try to convince me. But of course I cannot promise you that this will work.

>>>

#LIST OF MY EDUCATION:

>>>

>>>

#EXPERIENCES WITH OD JOBS IN MY OWN HOUSE & GARDEN:

>>>

All my adult life, since I rented my own room in Amsterdam in 1977, I designed and assembled different tables & cabinets. Then I painted them with organic raw linseed oil. In my previous house I had attached a shelf against the ceiling. Then fixed a lot of electricity sockets on it for practical access. From there wires went to all spot lamps & computer & sound system. See one of the pictures above on this website.

>>>

#EXPERIENCE WITH A YEAR LONG DOING OD JOBS FOR CUSTOMERS IN 1984:

>>>

A long time ago, namely in 1984, I also did chores for a year. I asked five Dutch guilders per hour. For example, I renewed and painted all windows for a landlord in a whole facade, at Witten street 80 in the Staatsliedenbuurt. # Furthermore, I had a bad experience with a gay man who wanted to have sex with me !!! His house looked super neat. He said that he had pain in his leg, and asked me to massage it !!! It was very sly, the way that he was talking! He kept rattling on! It was very hypnotic! As a result, I lost my mind and started massaging his lower leg. Then he said, "A little bit higher now." Then it started to dawn on me, some thing is not right here! The problem was that: I had clearly put in the newspaper that I was looking for WORK at home & garden !!! Secondly, sexually I am thoroughly straight!!! That's why I got terribly angry with him!!! Then he shouted, "If you do something to me, I know how to find you !!!" I ran outside! He lived on the ground floor. I then had a very strong tendency to break his windows with pavement tiles !!! Fortunately I was able to restrain myself. But lett this be a warning for other gays!!!

>>>

#22 YEARS GROWING VEGETABLE IN MY OWN GARDEN: From 1992 to 2014 I had a vegetable garden. First in Blijkmeer on the island of Zeeburg in East. The Municipality flattened it in 2008, so it no longer exists. At the top of this web page is a photo collage. Then in Bijlmer in an allotment complex called: "Vijf Slagen". I grew two apple trees, a cherry tree, and vegetables in a biological recycle system. I went to work there once a week. I learned to garden very well in that period!

>>>

#REPORT OD JOB IN 2015 FOR FRIEND ALEC BOSWIJK IN AMSTERDAM:

>>>

This customer is a friend. Until 2015 he had on the roof from his house a terrace of pavement tiles. There was nothing else there. Alec had saved a supply of special seeds, and collected a littlebit of second hand wood. I turned it into a wonderful vegetable garden! I was homeless at the time. I was allowed to live in the house of Alec for 4 months in exchange for all this work. I made 3 large planters on legs. And a covered area to germinate seeds. Furthermore, a construction made as a compost bin with an exhaust at the bottom. I also provided a second type of composting system, namely an anairobe Bokashi system. Furthermore, I grew wheatgrass to squeeze juice for his aw restaurant. I worked on it for 4 months. Two friends of Alec came a few times to help with carpentry. The last month, another friend of Alec helped.

>>>

# 2023: REVIEW: ALEC BOSWIJK:

>>>

PPHuygen has built a robust, solid installation (3x2m ² planters, of which 2 improved, plus a compost cabinet combination), which with some maintenance, is still standing as a rock after 8 years. Huygen works very independently, which requires good and regular communication and coordination. He can also help rigorously reorganize household interiors & office administration. I heartily recommend his service.

>>>

#OD JOBS 2021 & 2022 FOR FRIEND JASMINE SCHROFER:

>>>

In spring and a summer of 2021 I made a vegetable garden from part of her whole garden. There was already a bed with kitchen herbs. That job meant that I went to dig four square pieces of soil full of weeds. In a corner of that garden I dug out a bush with a very large root system. Then put vegetable plants in. Also a bed with flowers. In exchange, I was allowed to harvest half of the vegetables. So she did not give me any money for this. In 2022 I installed a few spot lamps in her kitchen in series switching, for only 10 €. A while later, A lamp in her shower room stopped working. It turned out that only a wire was loose, and the lamp holder was worn out. I have attached a new lamp holder. I got only 5 €.

>>>

# 2023: REVIEW JASMINE SCHROFER:

>>>

PPHuygen helped me with a nice upgrade in the lighting of my bath room. I never got time to do it myself. He had the right tools for this job (not me). So it was ideal to hire a handy man. Recommended!

>>>

# 2023: REVIEW MRS ELS, DISTRIKT BAARSJES, AMSTERDAM:

>>>

"I had my balcony fenced off by handyman PPHuygen. I can recommend this company to all, because good work is being done: neatly finished everything, and he left my balcony tidy! I am very satisfied with it. If I have a job in the future, I am 100% sure that I will ask him again".

>>>

# 2023: REVIEW OF MRS YVONNE CASTER, MERCATOR STREET 54, DISTRICT BAARSJES, AMSTERDAM:

>>>

Mr PPHuygen did a good job: weeds & in my garden, litter removed & my terrace tidy & reorganized.

>>>

SUMMER 2024: REVIEW MRS SAFIRA VAN DE ZEE, MUNICIPAL GARDEN ALLOTMENT IN AMSTERDAM.

>>>

PPHuygen has done several works for me, such as an built-in cupboard in my kitchen, and an outdoor firewood cabinet, fixing shelves, and a large mirror, repairing the pergola, attaching corrugated sheets to the roof, and repairing the gutter and downspout. All these activities have been carried out neatly and adequately with care and love. He is calculable, on time, a good communicator, is neat, and has a nice presence. As a worker I can wholeheartedly recommend him.

>>>

#CONTACT:

>>>