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. […]
The BIGGEST Painting Mistake I ever made…????
As a business owner, I do understand when coaching an employee through things, sometimes thoughts may cross their mind as if I am one that doesn’t make mistakes. Every now and then I have one of them mention this to me as I am walking through something and I usually cannot help myself but […]
National Home Warranty Day???
Ummm…yeah…so, today (2/10/19) is ‘National Home Warranty Day’. I am absolutely NOT making this up!! Don’t believe me? Check it out by Clicking Here! NOW I really do believe that they have a Holiday for EVERYTHING!! When my Office Manager pointed this out to me, I thought she was joking. Then when I found […]
The Next Big Thing in Home Improvement…
Whether it is Home Improvement, Fashion, Automobiles, etc., trends come and go and usually come back around again. One good example of this in Home Improvement is Residential Wallpapered Walls. Wallpapering one’s walls used to be enormously popular as there was quite a long period of time where you would be hard pressed to walk into someone’s […]
How Can I Best Find a Wall Stud??
If you have ever went to hang a TV or a heavy mirror and just tried to simply nail/screw your mounting hardware randomly on to the wall, you may have been rudely awakened by the object crashing down on you! The safest way to secure items such as these as well as pictures, plaques, […]
What does it Mean to Re-Point a Chimney??
As we are in a time period of the year where many homeowners start to turn their eyes toward potential Spring projects, perhaps one of the things that might make sense for folks to look at is the condition of their brick chimneys. Chimney maintenance is something that is often unintentionally neglected. After all, […]
