What Is The Best Way To Remove Ice & Snow From Wooden Decks & Porch Floors
It is something that obviously has to be done. Any time it snows or there is ice that has built up on a wooden deck or porch floor area, clearly it is not something that it is ideal to leave sitting there. Letting ice or snow simply hold tight to the top of wooden deck […]
How to Protect Your Home from Winter Weather
With Winter literally punching us in the mouth this weekend, I thought it would be good to review some basic tips on how to best guard our homes from the brunt of what we often face this time of year. Winter weather can be harsh on your home. Cold temperatures, ice, snow, and strong winds […]
Put Your Pride Aside – Fix The Leak!!!
Often I am called upon to help a homeowner figure out why something in their home is leaking and what can be done to properly fix it. I have been fortunate to build a career out of being somewhat of a ‘leak whisperer’ and be able to pinpoint one of the things that homeowners near […]
How I Remove Ice From Walkways
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 a while back. He is now retired Navy, but during […]
Why Snow Is Fool’s Gold
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 of the home was something that seemed like we were […]
Scared Of The Dark?
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, which may actually be more productively done in the dark. […]
Frozen Pipes
Every once in a while, we get a particularly harsh cold snap in Southern New England. Though I’d imagine not as frequently as our neighbors in Northern New England, we still get them on occasion and every time we do, it reminds me how much I personally dislike the cold (I’m afraid my roots are […]
How Wet is TOO Wet to Paint?
There are many inaccuracies that we have had to work through over the years which combat viable and efficient production. As in many industries (healthcare, the practice of law, you name it!), when working with a client, situations arise which should truly rely on professional expertise, yet receive pushback from the client in terms of […]
