What is Putty Used for in Construction?
When nailing up a piece of wood, composite, or other miscellaneous material, often one of two things occur. If you are nailing with some type of pressurized nail gun, there is a hole on the backside of the nail head that is formed. If something is being nailed in by hand, there may not be […]
What is Parging?
New England is a part of the country where the majority of folks have some type of basement. Contrasting from a good portion of the rest of the country where most people’s homes are built on “slabs” (most often to lessen the chances of flooding, particularly on areas with higher water tables). The older the […]
Painting Chimneys – The Ultimate Roll of the Dice
If you were to take a stroll down any street in a densely populated residential area, depending of course upon where you are strolling, you may notice varying degrees of people who have the chimneys on their home painted. While I am known to say things along the lines of “We will paint pretty much […]
The Difference Between a Gutter and a Downspout
In any industry, there are items that people not within that industry may mix up terminology for. When this occurs, the person whose industry is in the middle of this verbal confusion will most often become quickly perplexed. An example of this may be say if you were a firefighter and you bumped into someone […]
Popcorn Ceilings
Now and then we get calls asking for help with a ‘popcorn ceiling’. “Help” will typically mean either how to help get rid of them entirely or how to paint them without damaging them. Popcorn ceilings are ceilings where, for lack of a better way of describing them, there are little, tiny bumps scattered about […]
Why are Water Stains Brown?
Have you ever experienced the unsightly effects of a leak coming from somewhere in or around your home? Perhaps it is a leaky roof that recently started (…or has been leaking for years). Or maybe you have a pipe that is leaking or perhaps something funky going on with your bathtub that is causing water […]
What is the Best Floorcovering for a Bathroom Floor?
When deciding to renovate/update your bathroom to any degree, one item that folks often contemplate over what the best approach would be, is what in the world to do with the bathroom floor? Clearly, there are almost infinite answers as to what someone might want to put down. The recommendations I try to convince our […]
Why is it so Hard to Find a “Good” Contractor these Days?
Even before the recent pandemic began to take over all our lives, finding a Contractor did not seem to be the easiest task to do. Finding a “good” Contractor, some may say that it would have been easier to find a unicorn. With the advent of decades of students being steered away from the trades, […]
Being Mindful to Keep Snow Clear from Critical Areas
Every Winter is different. Some years, us New Englanders flirt with record snowfall totals as the Winter progresses. Other years, the most snow-hearty of us are disappointed in the lack of this white stuff. No matter where we fall on the ‘snow lover scale’, falling snow can easily drive us batty before, during, and after […]
What Affects the Price of Wood?
In the Summer of 2020, I needed (3) 20’ long, 5/4” x 6” pieces of pressure treated decking for a deck repair we were doing in Providence, RI. Let me emphasis the number ‘3’, I literally needed three pieces of wood. These pieces of wood however were nowhere to be found. One of the things […]
