Weatherstripping is a very useful tool to stop air leaks around your doors and windows. Where ever you can see, or more important, feel air moving, there's a gap and you're losing your warm (or cooled) air to the outdoors.Weatherstripping can be added to your doors and window sashes to reduce the …
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Roofs, Umbrellas & Staying Dry
Repairing a roof is important because your home's roof acts like an umbrella. You grab an umbrella when it's raining, or maybe you keep one in the car? You rarely think about your roof until it's raining, snowing, the leaves are collecting in the gutters ... or you suddenly find you've got a leak …
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. …
More Lighting With A Creative Solution
Lighting? Lighting seems like one of those things we take for granted until the power goes off. Or maybe it's a dark overcast day with very little natural sunlight streaming in the windows, like today! Most people have no idea how important lighting is. Lighting affects safety in what we're doing …
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