Your Comprehensive Guide to Planning a Home Addition
Expanding your home with an addition is an exciting venture that can enhance your living space, increase your property value, and accommodate your growing...
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The Right Steps to Effective Contractor Safety Management
For owners of a contracting business, safety management is every bit as important as quality of work and customer satisfaction. In fact, effective contractor...
Your Deck: Do-over or Makeover?
If your old deck is looking worn and shabby, you might be thinking it’s time to demolish it and start over with a newly designed deck. While that’s a perfectly...
Get That Guestroom Spruced up For the Holidays
If you’re ever going to need a guest room, the Holidays would most likely be the time. As family and friends travel to be with each other during this time of...
Top Home Updates
Whether you want to update your home’s look to match your personality, meet your family’s changing needs, or prepare for a property sale, there are many easy...
COVID-19 Update 5/21/20
An Updated Message to Our Customers: We are still here and still open for our community. Please be advised our operating hours as follows: Monday-Friday...
Getting your Deck Ready for Spring
As soon as the snow melts and the ground is somewhat thawed, it is the perfect time to start getting your deck ready for spring. This way, you can spend more...
Tips for Living through a Renovation
A renovation project can be very rewarding. But like most things in life, rewards don’t come easy. Renovation projects can vary in size and expense, though one...
How to Make your Bathroom More Energy Efficient
When it comes to energy use in your home, only the kitchen rivals the bathroom. If your home has more than one bathroom, the energy use can increase even more....
Weekend Project: Replace or Install Porch Screening
If you have an older home with a screened in porch, then the method used to install the screening is probably the same method that’s been around forever. This...
Five Home Improvement Trends To Watch In 2019
Do you follow the home improvement industry? If so, the Home Improvement Research Institute thinks you should pay attention to these key trends in 2019. The...
Keeping your Ducts in Order
A common complaint by homeowners who use a forced hot air heating system is that there can be a lot of dust build up. Of course, that is why filters are used...
Stocking Up On All The Right Power Tools For Your Business
Power tools have never been more accessible and affordable than they are today. The many options and brands to choose from can seem very intimidating. Because...
How to Choose a Remodeling Contractor
At first glance, it would seem like the easiest way to find a remodeling contractor would be to just Google them. Of course if you did so, you’ll probably find...
Basement Finishing Tips
Generally, the forward thinking concept of building a home in which the owner may someday use the basement as a living space wasn’t widely practiced until the...
Roof Repair vs Roof Replacement: Which do I need?
Replacing the roof is something that most homeowners dread. The average national cost for tearing off and replacing an old roof in 2014 was nearly $12,000. The...
Tips for Easier DIY When You Work by Yourself
For the most part, many home improvement DIY projects can be accomplished solo. For many people, there is a lot of satisfaction and peace of mind from being...
What to Watch Out For when Restoring an Old House
If you are considering an old house for restoration, then you’ve most likely made peace with the fact that there’s a higher level of maintenance required. The...
Comparing Deck Wood Choices
Generally speaking, when you compare common decking materials there are three choices: Cedar, pressure-treated wood and composite decking. Neither one is a bad...
Which Home Improvements Pay Off?
To answer this question correctly, first you must decide what the “payoff” means. If a home improvement is meant to improve your life or that of your family,...
Preparing For a New Year of DIY Projects
As most homeowners know, your “to do” list of projects never really gets completely crossed out. The bottom of the list just keeps getting longer. The...
Become Your Own Contractor
Part of the pride of being a homeowner is being able to customize it just the way that you want it. Many homeowners also get additional pride from knowing that...
Closing the Space Above the Kitchen Cabinets with MDF and Moldings
If you’re like many homeowners, there’s that space above your cabinets in the kitchen that is too high reach, too narrow to put another cabinet, or too...
Garage Makeover Projects
Every garage owner knows the luxury of their extra storage space— at least until it becomes full. They soon learn how quickly that luxury can become a burden....
Ways to Generate More Leads for Contractors
An ongoing challenge for contractors—especially those just starting out— is finding new customers. Generally, by doing your job well and proving your company’s...