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, […]
What Home Renovations Increase the Most Value When Selling???
Often, I am brought in to work with a Client who is thinking about putting their home on the market in perhaps the not-too-distant future. The Client typically is aiming at picking my brain in terms of what they can do to maximize the value of their home as cost-efficiently as possible in […]
Why Winter is the Best Time to Sell Your Home…????
Obviously, I am FAR from a Realtor. Because of the way my business operates though, a strong pulse on the Real Estate market is a by-product of which provides me tremendous insight as to how the Real Estate market (at least in Rhode Island…) tends to flow. One of the people whose words I gravitate toward […]
Addiction During the Holidays…
As we are in the midst of the Holiday season, it is a time of year when not everyone is feeling the happiest. It is a time of year when many of us know people that may not be in the best spots emotionally that they have ever been in during the course of their […]
How Cold is TOO Cold to Paint Outside???
One of the questions that I can bank on getting overwhelmed with like clockwork at certain periods of the year is, “How cold is TOO cold to paint outside?” If you were to ask this question of almost any painter, contractor, paint supplier and the like, you would most likely get very […]
Rust…..
Perhaps one of the more unsightly things that one might see, rust can really take away from the cosmetic appearance of any given finish but it can also, if left untreated, cause extraordinarily expensive repairs. Rust forms when an iron or an alloy that contains iron (such as steel) is exposed to both oxygen […]
