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- Cabinetry
- Carbon Monoxide Detector
- Carpentry
- Caulk
- Ceiling
- Cellar Door
- Chimney
- Cleaning Painted Walls
- Cleanup
- Contractors
- Crown Molding
- Deck Care
- Deck Staining
- Doors
- Drywall
- Electrical
- Exterior
- Fence
- Fireplace
- Fundraiser
- Gutters
- Hardwood Floors
- Heating
- Holiday
- Home Architecture
- House Plants
- Informational
- Interior
- Leaking Problems
- Legal Issues
- Paint Brands
- Painting
- Pest Control
- Plaster
- plaster washers
- Porches
- Posts
- Power Washing
- Prep for painting
- Refinished Cabinets
- Roof
- Roof
- Rotted Wood
- Routine Maintenance
- Sanding
- Selling Home
- Shingles
- Shingles
- Siding
- Smoke Detector
- Snow Shoveling
- Spring
- Step Flashing
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- Surface Preparation
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- Trim
- Trim
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How To Get Up Oil Stains From Your Basement Floor
November 27, 2023
In New England, one of the things that is different about our homes in comparison to a lot of the other parts of the country is that we have basements. With the absence of a basement, many other regions have their homes built on concrete ...
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Do You Have Trees Growing Out Of Your Gutters?
November 20, 2023
It is not unusual for me to be walking around someone’s property with them and for us to notice something occurring that the Client was completely unaware of prior to doing so. This can range from a water stain that had gone unnoticed, to rotted ...
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Scared Of The Dark?
November 5, 2023
Every year when the length of daylight hours slowly shrinks as we head toward Fall, the time of day that requires daylight to get things done naturally shrinks as well. There are some tasks though that one would normally think that you need daylight for, ...
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Protect Your Butts!
October 30, 2023
Recently I was asked to testify in a court case that involved a bit of a messy situation between a contractor and a client. In this particular situation, the contractor that was hired to do the work was confident that they were done with the ...
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How To Get Tape ( And Other Adhesives ) Off A Wall
October 23, 2023
Many of those who know me are aware that I am a bit of an early bird. So much so that my haircut each Saturday morning typically occurs around 5am or so. Sometimes a little later, sometimes a bit earlier, but on average, 5am would ...
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Can You Paint Pressure Treated Wood?
October 16, 2023
There is no shortage of old wives’ tales in the field of home improvement. As in many other aspects of life, there is guidance and methods of suggested approach regarding different aspects of enhancing your home that not only couldn’t be further from correct, but ...
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How To Clean Old Paint From Paint Brushes
October 9, 2023
A good paint brush has always been a decent investment. Yes, of course you can buy what we in the industry refer to as a “throw-away” brush, but unless the project you are doing is literally a ‘one-time’ event, there certainly is value in learning ...
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The Purpose Of An Astragal
October 1, 2023
Imagine a big door, like the one you use to enter a school or a store. Sometimes, these doors are extra big and have two parts that swing open in the middle. These are called ‘double doors’. Now, imagine that the two parts of the ...
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How To NOT Damage Your Gutters When Working In & Around Them
September 25, 2023
I am an admitted Obsessive Compulsive. Although there are varying degrees of ‘OCD’ (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), outside of the normal items that you may see related to this way of life with a quick Google search, there are certain things that attract my eye like ...
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What Is A Cupola?
September 18, 2023
Falling under the category of features on your home that people often call one thing when they actually mean another would be the ‘cupola’. Perhaps my biggest pet peeve with these types of items is when someone refers to a ‘downspout’ on their home as ...
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