Repairing Concrete Steps
If your home has concrete steps, there may come a time when a little repair is necessary. Depending on the age of your steps or their exposure to the elements,...
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Gutter Installation Tips
Gutters play an important role in keeping your home safe from water damage. Without them, your foundation can be weakened over time; water can seep into your...
Window Boxes Can Dress up Your House
When it comes to curb appeal, window boxes provide a lot of bang for the buck. With basic tools, materials and just a few hours of effort, you can make a huge...
Knife Safety
Poor knife-wielding techniques in the kitchen can often result in more than just annoying bandages and anti-bacterial ointments. Deep cuts and chopped finger...
Effective Ways To Clean Your Gutter
If your gutter is brimming with leaves and water cascades off your roof like it’s coming down Niagara Falls, it may be time to clean it out. Here are some...
Getting the Most Use Out of Your Deck
We all know that the deck is the place to be when it comes to barbecuing and relaxing in the sun. With all of the time and money invested in your deck, doesn’t...
Tips for Building your own Backyard Fire Pit
Sitting around the fire. It’s a tradition that goes back further than recorded history and is one that has endured for many reasons. The simplest of which is...
Tips on How to Fix a Squeaky Floor
As most homeowners know, squeaky floors come with the territory. Usually the older the house, the more squeaks you have to contend with. While they may come in...
Convert your Spare Room into a Hobby Room
For a lot of people, there are few things more satisfying or rewarding than becoming fully immersed in a creative project that they enjoy: A hobby. The...
The Safest Way to Change Ceiling Lights in Your Home
We have all been caught staring at our ceiling, wondering how we will ever get up the courage to climb up a ladder and replace that pesky ceiling bulb or ugly...
Tips for Organizing your Attic and Keeping it in Tip Top Shape
If you are like most people, this is time of year when you head on up to the attic to retrieve your holiday decorations. However, you might be unfortunate...
Organizing Tips: How to Get your Car Back in the Garage
People tend to store things in their attics, garages, and sheds as if those spaces were interchangeable. The fact is, as a storage space, your garage is...
Tips for Getting Your Holiday Decorations Organized
If you’re like most people during the busy holiday season, the to-do list has a way of growing while the days seem to slip by faster. The added chore of wading...
Environmental Benefits Of Building With Wood
Don’t let anybody tell you wood is not a “green” building product. Wood circulates energy savings throughout its life.To start, wood-frame construction is easy...
Know Your Wood When Selecting Paint
How well exterior paints and stains adhere to wood is a direct result of wood properties and the various manufacturing processes. Dense wood shrinks and swells...
Roofing Materials Storage Quick-Tip
Proper storage and handling of roofing materials at the job site ensures peak performance.Insulation, underlayment, felts, and polymer-modified bitumen sheets...
Use System Thinking On Your Next Roofing Project.
There is more to roofing than just nailing down shingles. A roofing system must also adequately ventilate the attic space. Proper roof ventilation prevents...
What’s The “Greenest” Insulation Around?
Evidence suggests fiberglass, rock wool and slag wool insulation beat out cellulose insulation hands down. What’s more, fiberglass, rock wool and slag wool...
Create a Living Room Outdoors
The backyard patio or deck has long been a favorite place for summer fun and cookouts, but more and more, people are discovering new ways to repurpose their...
How to Repair Your Wood Siding
Wood siding, for all of its classic elegance and historical significance, can require a lot of upkeep. Beyond the usual scraping and painting, there will be...
Bright Ideas for Outdoor Lighting
You work hard on your house and landscaping, so there’s no reason why the beauty of it all should be hidden when the sun goes down. Outdoor lighting can bring...
What to Look For in Exterior Wood Finishes
The choice of exterior wood finishes is dependent on the manner in which it will be used. All-acrylic latex paints are the most durable house paints, but...
A Look at Traditional Trim Designs
While I spend much of my time traveling around the country teaching carpenters and contractors the ins and outs of trim carpentry, I don’t often have the...