Granite has a long history from the pyramids in Egypt, to granite memorials in Victorian Britain. It gained popularity first in commercial buildings and monuments, as flooring tiles and other uses, because it wears better than marble due to acid rain erosion. But we should never forget where granite …
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Organizing a Home Maintenance Calendar
You love your home and invested a lot of money when you bought it. So it makes sense that you want to protect that money. Just like changing the oil in your car, your home needs ongoing maintenance. But there's no light that goes on to remind you to change the filter in your furnace, nor is there a …
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6 Home Maintenance Tools No Homeowner Should be Without
Every homeowner needs a reliable set of tools for home maintenance projects. If you’ve ever tried to tighten a screw using the tip of a butter knife, you have a pretty good idea why. Unfortunately many, if not most, tools are designed and marketed toward men. Tools tend to be heavier and less …
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Your Home Maintenance Schedule
If you’re like most women, you wear a lot of different hats. You plan menus, know when the soccer season starts, and have your work and home schedules down to a science. (Read: Juggling Home Ownership as a Busy Professional) But if you haven’t pulled together a home maintenance schedule, there’s …
Essential Power Tools for Women
Women need to take power into their own hands, and why not start with power tools? Men don’t have to be around to do general home maintenance when women are capable of doing it ourselves. Home improvement can be a daunting task, but with the right power tools most tasks can be taken on easily and …
Exterior Home Maintenance Checklist to Inspect Your Home
While we're able to control the environment (temperature, humidity, lighting) inside our homes, but we have very little control over the weather buffeting our homes outside. That's why our exterior home maintenance checklist is so important. It's meant to help you inspect and make repairs to your …
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