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Reducing Energy Costs with Energy Saving Products

Your heating system may be taking the summer off, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do more to lower your energy bill. Reducing energy costs in the home is not just a wintertime concern. There are many products available to help you to start saving energy right now. Whether you are planning to...

What Every Contractor Should do Before Starting a Job

Okay, let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way. Before starting any job, make sure it is one that you have the knowledge, equipment, manpower and time, to finish safely for both you and the homeowner. Assuming all qualifications, licensing and insurance are in order, what’s left? For contractors,...

Tips for Taking Down Walls and Creating an Open Layout

Removing walls and opening up the layout in your home can create a truly remarkable transformation. It is often done on television home improvement shows, because the impact can be so dramatic. A lot of care and thought should be made before making this decision, since it can change so much in the...

Roofing Tip: Preventing Ice Dams

The National Roofing Contractors Association recommends using a self-adhering polymer-modified bitumen sheet underlayment in areas where ice-dam protection is required. An ice-dam protection membrane should extend from an eave’s edge to a point 24” inside the interior face of a building’s exterior...

At Home with a Modern Design: Contemporary Architecture

Is modern and contemporary the same thing? Not exactly. In terms of interior design, modern design refers to a specific time period. Essentially it is a style known as “Mid-century Modern” that was created around the 20s through the 50s. Modern design was known for a bright open, airy feeling....

Basement Finishing Tips

Generally, the forward thinking concept of building a home in which the owner may someday use the basement as a living space wasn’t widely practiced until the 1950s and 1960s. Older homes had basements which were primarily a place to keep the furnace and other utilities, as well as storing things...

Guide to Buying Better Lumber At Ansonia Lumber

The biggest factor in determining the type and quality of wood that you’ll use for your next project is the project itself. That’s because certain varieties of wood are best suited for certain projects. For example, a hardwood with a closed grain such as maple would be an excellent choice for a...

How to Redo Caulk and Grout Like a Professional

It doesn’t happen overnight, but eventually you’ll notice that every time you clean the tub and shower, the caulk or grout just never looks as clean as it used to. That’s because over time, due to minute cracks and wear, moisture finds its way in allowing mold and mildew to take root. Often, no...

7 Innovative Ways to Add Windows into Home Remodels

It helps a living space feel more expansive and can also improve the mood of the occupants. Adding windows or patio doors into a home can be more than just filling a rectangular space with a piece of glass. Check out these 7 innovative ways to add windows and patio doors into your next home...

4 Must-Haves for Generating High-Quality Remodeling Leads

Let me guess. You need more remodeling leads.If you tried digital marketing in 2015, you likely employed a combination of: email marketing social media website re-design And let me guess: few of the “leads” you received from these marketing initiatives turned into revenue-generating jobs. You’re...

What You Need to Know about Buying Replacement Windows

So you’ve decided to take the plunge and replace your old windows. Doing so is one of the best investments you can make for your home --not only for the reduction in energy bills, but the increase in comfort, quiet, and ease of cleaning/maintaining. Additionally, replacing windows in your home can...

Home Maintenance Tips for the First-time Buyer

With first-time homebuyers, there is no shortage of one thing: excitement. That’s a good thing, because that excitement is fuel for all of the many things that come into play when buying a house. Many times though, this excitement can cause homebuyers to overlook such things as routine home...

Which Home Improvements Pay Off?

To answer this question correctly, first you must decide what the “payoff” means. If a home improvement is meant to improve your life or that of your family, then you can’t discount the value there. By simply living in your home and enjoying what you’ve done, you’re essentially getting your...

Installing Barn Doors Indoors

The versatility of indoor barn doors is limited only by the imagination. Unlike standard interior doors, barn doors (in a more general sense, known as slider doors) come in an endless variety of shapes, sizes, materials and colors. They can be adapted for many things; doorways being just one of...

How to Market Your Small Contractor Company

Without a doubt, the best marketing for a small contractor company starts with a job well done. That alone can showcase your company’s dedication to quality, professionalism and reliability. Quality work is the foundation that word-of-mouth is built upon. In many cases, that alone is enough to...

Contractor Tips: Remodeling Surprises to Watch Out For

Life is full of surprises. For many of us, it’s why we get up every day. It’s a new chance to turn the page and have the unexpected come popping out. A lovely sentiment— one that looks much better on a greeting card than at a remodeling job. When working on a remodeling project, surprises are the...

Coping Baseboard with a Miter Saw

Miter saws do an excellent job at cutting consistent, perfect angles. The problem is, in the real world most walls are not consistent or perfect. To deal with this, rather than using trial and error while trying to get the perfect angle, most carpenters use a technique known as coping. Coping is a...

How to Clean Roof Stains

The most common cause of staining on shingles is from blue - green algae known as Gloeocapsa Magma, which is prevalent in humid areas of the country. While algae, dirt or mold are certainly unpleasant to look at, the most harm that they’ll most likely do to your home is hurt the resale value. Be...

Getting Your Kids Involved With Your Wood Projects

Kids are naturally creative. With them always learning, changing and doing new things, creativity is a natural byproduct. It’s who they are. However, the one thing that kids may value even more than making things is spending time with family. Woodworking is a hobby that can carry throughout a...

Contractor Tips: Top Home Remodeling Don'ts

There are a lot of challenges for today’s contractors. Keeping up-to-date with the latest tools and techniques, regulations and codes alone can keep them busy. The challenge of running a business has enough pitfalls on its own. When it comes to the contractor’s bread-and-butter, the remodeling job,...

Organizing Tips: How to Get your Car Back in the Garage

People tend to store things in their attics, garages, and sheds as if those spaces were interchangeable. The fact is, as a storage space, your garage is fundamentally different from your attic. An attic should be used to store the things you wish to keep, and a garage is for storing the things you...

Tips for Removing Finishing Nails from Molding

For as thin and tiny as finishing nails can be, they are sometimes tricky to remove. If not done carefully, they can even cause unnecessary damage to that expensive piece of molding you are trying to preserve. Here is some help for getting the nails out with the least amount of problems. Once you...

Picking the Perfect Floor: Carpet, Tile, Hardwood

Deciding on the right flooring for your home can seem like an overwhelming decision to make. You’re likely drawing from your personal tastes, while at the same time tempering them with practical thinking. As you are probably already aware, flooring can become quite costly --depending on your choice...

Preparing For a New Year of DIY Projects

As most homeowners know, your “to do” list of projects never really gets completely crossed out. The bottom of the list just keeps getting longer. The rewarding part is, that the results of your work are around you every day. It’s what keeps you going. As the year draws to an end, it’s a good time...

How to Build a Shower That Won’t Leak

If you are renovating your bathroom or just installing a shower in a new one, one way to ensure that it won’t leak is to buy a manufactured shower enclosure. If you’re looking for something a little bit more unique, then you can install a shower pan of your own that works with your bathroom’s shape...