Does Your Home Have Hidden Mold?
Probably one of the things that any home or property owner cringes at the thought of as it relates to existing within their living or operating space. Mold can create a plethora of health challenges. I, myself am very fortunate when it comes to health overall but am apparently allergic to some rare type […]
Perhaps The Best Spring Gardening Tip Ever…
Although surely not everyone celebrates, for those that do, Easter is a very special time! Not only for Spiritual reasons, but Easter often seems to symbolically run parallel with the beginning of Spring. Although not always the warmest of days, this year, with Easter being a bit later than it often is, folks who garden […]
How to Stop a Bleeding Knothole…
You may have dealt with this before… A knothole in a piece of wood that you are trying to paint that no matter what you do to stop it from bleeding through your finish coat, just seems to magically keep reappearing. Why is this??? In a nutshell, the knothole bleeding through […]
The Importance of Storm Windows!
With the technology in window manufacturing advancement today, one would think that the traditional storm window market may be falling by the wayside. This is very much not necessarily true. Although when folks do update the windows on their homes & businesses, they do seem to steer towards windows not requiring storm windows, there […]
Is Composite Trim Truly Maintenance-Free?
When someone replaces rotted wood trim on their home with some type of composite trim, initially there may be a feeling of satisfaction knowing that what they just installed will never rot on them again. They may even have a slight feeling of invincibility at first as they may like to believe that what they […]
Proper Exterior Painting Surface Preparation Expectations
Perhaps one of the diciest questions for exterior residential painting Contractors to navigate (when asked by a potential exterior painting Client) is…. What do you do for surface preparation prior to painting? This can be such a daunting question to answer for the Contractor because there are […]
Spring is Springing!! Now What Do I Do???
This past week we have certainly gotten teased with what will hopefully be an upward trend in daily average temperatures. After a late March burst of snow, following what seemingly has been eons since we have had a REALLY decent stretch of weather (a mundane Rhode Island Winter, record rains throughout the Fall, and […]
How to Get Your Contractor to Treat You Like GOLD!!
I have been fortunate to run a Contracting business for a LOOOOONG time. This year I will have been in business for just under 25 years. Seems like a lifetime to me!! Over this time I have also been lucky enough to meet and work directly with hundreds of Clients and other […]
The Danger of Late Season Snowfall & Home Improvement Project Planning
We, in Rhode Island this Winter, have been moving along relatively unscathed from a Winter Storm perspective. There have been numerous Winter weather systems that have come through over the course of the Winter months, but we have certainly been very fortunate. Most Wintry-type weather has passed North or South and barely nipped us, […]
Navigating A Home Improvement Nightmare!!…
This past week I walked into a situation that I have, sadly, seen many times before. I had a Client reach out to me that had hired someone to help them out with a Home Improvement Project who ran into some challenges and kind of left the Homeowner with a started, but never finished, project. […]
