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How I Remove Ice From Walkways
January 22, 2024
Sometimes no matter how advanced technology gets, the best methods of approaching a particular task may never be able to be improved beyond the point where they are currently at. A great example of this is a story a brother-in-law of mine shared with me ...
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How To Pick The Correct Paint Sheen
January 15, 2024
Certainly, one of the more asked questions that I receive when I am having conversations about painting, whether interior or exterior, is what sheen of paint should be used when painting the surfaces that are being coated. While at the end of the day, the ...
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Why Snow Is Fool’s Gold
January 8, 2024
When I was growing up (by the way, I hate to sound like “that guy”…), as like many folks, our household was quite busy. Between multiple siblings, school, activities, work, etc. the day-in and day-out house environment was quite “lived-in”. With exhaustive schedules, the tidiness ...
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Why Chimney Maintenance Is SO Important
December 26, 2023
When it comes to the Holiday Season, it should be obvious why chimney maintenance is so important. After all, if you have a heavier-set gentleman, in an enormous red & white suit, toting around large packages in a sack behind him, who – by any ...
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Diagnosing Leaks – The Last Resort!
December 18, 2023
Attempting to figure out where a leak is coming from can often be the ultimate exercise in frustration. Whether the leak is coming from the interior, the exterior, or someplace in between, correctly figuring out where a leak is stemming from is enough to drive ...
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Powderpost Beetle Damage
December 11, 2023
If you have ever ventured into your basement and have noticed a number of holes in the wooden components of it, you may have come across Powderpost beetle damage. These holes typically are numerous in nature and are about the size of pencil lead or ...
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Help! My Door Will NOT Close…Or Will It?…
December 4, 2023
One of the more challenging items around the home that if you have been around long enough, you have surely had to navigate through at one point or another, is a door that just will not seem to close. Even more perplexing are situations where ...
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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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