How Many Coats of Paint Should be Applied to the Exterior of Your Home?
As I work meeting with folks throughout the year planning exterior painting projects, one of the more intense parts of our discussions can often be the conversation revolving around how many coats of paint should be applied to their home’s exterior. I often have to re-wire in people’s minds what seems to have become a […]
Merry Christmas from all of us at LOPCO Contracting!
Our Clients, Vendors, and Colleagues genuinely mean the world to us, our deepest Yuletide wish is for you and yours to have as close to “normal” a Holiday Season as possible. Merry Christmas!!
Why Your Home Has Mice
Most everyone I know has some type of “fear” that totally skives them out. For some people it is spiders, for some it may be cockroaches, or it could be any other of a wide variety of creepy crawlies. For me, it is mice. If I see one of these tiny beings, I will totally […]
Cloudy & Foggy Glass Window Panes
One of the best benefits of modern windows is how energy-efficient they are. Among the many reasons they are so energy-efficient is because of the way the glass is set up in them. The glass panes of these windows are typically made with some version of two panes of glass with gas in between (usually […]
Redoing a Ceiling – Better To Go Over Existing or To Start from Scratch?
There are a number of reasons why someone may want to replace a ceiling. Perhaps their existing ceiling has some type of texture to it that is overly annoying to them. Maybe they have a large section of the ceiling that is damaged (think – someone falling through a ceiling while putzing around in the […]
Why that Old Steam Radiator Heats Up SO HOT!!!
Have you ever been in a building – an old home, apartment building, school, or other building of the sort – where the ancient, cast-iron radiator in whatever room you happen to be in at the time, heats up to the point where the heat is seemingly unbearable and, literally, forces you to open up […]
Arguably the Most Delicious (and Perhaps Most Dangerous!) Turkey One Could Possibly Have!!
Recently I was in attendance at an all-day meeting and during a break in between sessions, a couple of colleagues and myself started bantering about a number of Holiday mishaps which we have been witness to over the years. Whether somewhat comical or extraordinarily serious, there seemed to be endless numbers of examples. One tangent […]
What is the Difference Between Red Cedar Shingles & White Cedar Shingles?
On the outside of our homes there are clearly a wide variety of what exists in terms of siding options. Over the years, many have opted for vinyl, cement board, masonry, or some other alternative style of sided home. Traditionally in New England, when a home is sided out of wood, there are two main […]
What is the Difference Between Drywall and Blueboard?
When it comes to building materials there are some items that I have always noticed Clients seem to refer to one when possibly actually referring to another. One classic example of this is gutters and downspouts. I have had many occasions in the past when Clients were discussing their downspouts and while doing so kept […]
How to Stop that Annoying Chirp from the Smoke Detector
If you have not had the pleasure of being woken up from a cozy sleep by a seemingly annoying chirp that you just can’t seem to initially recognize where it is coming from, let me assure you, you have no clue of the enjoyable experience you are missing (sarcasm thickly laid…)! The chances are at […]
