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- All
- Basement
- Basement Flood
- Best time to hire Home Improvement Contractor
- Brick
- Bulkheads
- Cabinetry
- Carpentry
- Caulk
- Cleaning Painted Walls
- Deck Care
- Deck Staining
- Doors
- Electrical
- Exterior
- Fence
- fireplace
- Gutters
- Holiday
- Informational
- Interior
- Leaking Problems
- Painting
- Pest Control
- Refinished Cabinets
- Roof
- Routine Maintenance
- Selling Home
- Siding
- Snow Shoveling
- Spring
- Step Flashing
- Uncategorized
- Vinyl Sliding
- Wallpaper
- Winter
- Wood
- Working with Insurance Companies
What is a Lavette??
“Lavette.” Sounds fancy, doesn’t it? If you have had home improvements done to your home in the past or even just planned on a future home improvement (daydreaming while scrolling through pictures of others’ home improvement projects, etc.), there is a good chance that …
What is Hardware Cloth?
One item that we were asked to help out with at a recent job was to replace the screening that had been in place behind a Client’s attic gable vent windows. Typically, the screening that is used behind these windows when they come from “the …
What is the Single Thing You Can Do to Help Sell Your Home – FAST!!!???
I preface this all by solidly stating that I am NOT a Realtor. Nor do I claim to be anywhere near an expert in the Real Estate field. That being said, I have been working on homes in Southern New England since 1995 and …
What is Roof Decking Code?
The famous line from Forrest Gump, “My mom always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”, can be applied to roofing, particularly on older homes. In my opinion, to …
What Causes Wood to Rot?
One of the items that pops up in conversation most frequently when having a discussion with someone about painting the exterior of their home, is rotted wood. Obviously, rotted wood is not something that you want to paint over, it is something that …
Why Does Siding Get Chalky?
Have you ever leaned up on a house and when you came off of it, either from you noticing or someone else noticing, the back of your shirt was covered with a mysterious, white substance? That substance is chalk. I remember growing …
How Do You Get Rid of Carpenter Bees?
Some “pests” are pestier than others! The more challenging it is to get rid of a pest that is causing damage to your home in one way, shape, or form, causes me to label it “pestier” than others. There are all types of creepy crawlies …
Is Step Flashing Necessary?
Recently I stepped out on a roof at a Client’s home, it was a roof that led up to a wall for another part of the home. As I got closer to the wall that the roof led up to, something did not feel right …
How to Caulk Large Gaps
Have you ever been in a position where you had an extraordinarily large gap to fill and you were really not sure how to do it? This may have been the case with wood, concrete, on the interior, or on the exterior, but the …
What is a Calcimine Ceiling?
We often get calls from folks that are really confused about a particular ceiling issue that they seem to be experiencing. It is centered around a peeling challenge that they keep having with a ceiling of theirs. Although seemingly sometimes (though certainly not always!) …
