Charles is an Expert Reviewer for Doityourself.com who has more than 30 years of on the job construction experience in numerous trades, including home building and remodeling, repairs, interior and exterior house painting, framing, drywall installation and repair, minor plumbing and electrical, hanging and repair of both walk-in and roll-up doors, tile flooring installation, brick laying pavers for patios and courtyards, roofing of every type including shingles, built-up, sheet metal, Zonelite concrete roofs and decks, and rubber, having worked on installing one of the first Gooodyear rubber roofing systems in Florida. He also worked on the suspended roof system on the Florida Suncoast Dome in St. Petersburg.
Charles is a highly experienced equipment operator of Bobcats, backhoes, D-9 front end loader, hydraulic cranes, GRT piledriver, concrete saws, regular and extended reach forklifts, and he has operated a working barge on Tampa Bay and the Intercoastal Waterway as a Marine Construction sub-contractor building custom docks. Charles has vast experience in housekeeping in private home, medical facilities, business offices, restaurant, heavy industrial, and hotel-motel settings. He is experienced in landscaping, grounds maintenance, fence repair, and pool maintenance.
Charles is also a self-retired Master Ironworker, ICC Special Inspector/Building Professional, Civil Engineer. Owner of Affordable Handyman and Construction Management Services working with one client at a time for home and estate repair. Since 2013. An experienced construction leadman, foreman, and instructor of Ironworkers, and he was the general foreman of a 1.12 mw solar farm project in Chowchilla, California in 2016
Charles Ramos, Jr holds a degree in housekeeping from Alexander Training School of Alexander, Arkansas since 1977.
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