Most homeowners find it easier to hire a carpet cleaning service to clean their carpets. Many homeowners don't realize they can and should, clean their upholstered furniture at the same time as they're getting the carpets done. While you're going to pay for this service, it will also help you extend …
Parent Tips: Protecting Wood Floors
Floors are subject to incredible wear and tear. One way to protect your home's floors is to provide a place for children and guests to sit down and remove their outdoor shoes and boots at the door. The Japanese do this by leaving slippers at the front door and there is usually one step up into the …
Garage Floors & Drainage
In theory a garage is for your car but very few people have room in their garage as they use it to store things and for activity centers that don't fit in the house. You might have a ping pong table like my home in California where we don't have basements. A homeowner handyman is likely to have …
Stairs: Replacing Carpeting with Wood
Replacing carpeting on stairs is simple unless you've got unusual tread shapes. With several pie shaped treads at the bottom of these stairs, we decided to have them made locally versus relying on the manufacturer's supplier, just in case we ran into further problems. Luckily everything worked out …
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Flooring: How Many Steps Does It Takes?
Installing wood floors is fairly complicated, even when you're using pre-finished wood planks. At my handyman business, we install a fair amount of wood flooring but typically the customer has done all the planning, purchased the materials, arranged for delivery of the materials and we simply arrive …
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Flooring: Difficult to Pick One
My handyman customers often want help installing a new floor. Sometimes the first question is whether they should go with a laminate floor, pre-finished hardwood or the traditional approach where you install the hardwood and finish (stain and coat with polyurethane) the floors after installation. …