After 15 years, a shower that was starting to leak, and a carpeted master bath, it was time to upgrade the bathroom. After selecting natural stone floor, shower, and wall tile, custom built cabinetry, and challenging our granite guy to fabricate a top to our existing tub, the pressure was on to build it right. […]
The crown or top of your chimney is an important element of your chimney. The chimney crown is designed to keep your chimney dry. If it is cracked, water can get into your masonry.
This video is an introduction to loop vents. A loop vent is used in Kitchen Islands and other places a standard vent can't be run to the roof.
Tim Carter stumbles upon an excavator moving rocks along a lake.
In this Newsletter issue, working the Boston Marathon as a ham radio operator, using nails to anchor a 2x4 to a concrete floor, I need your bathroom remodeling questions, hail damage to a roof, burst washing machine hoses follow up, before and after photos of a ground-level deck, a new cleaning tip of the week, want Stain Solver in your store and a video on urethane paint.
Tim Carter describes a precast concrete paver patio system. While the stones at first seem random and individual, Tim shows how they are clever interlocking pieces of colored concrete.
If a precast concrete paver patio is in your future, here are some tips for patio pavers. Concrete paver stones interlock so they don't move around after you have completed your patio. These are DIY friendly and if your patio is a small one, you can be sitting on your new patio in hours.
Large hail damaged the roof of Dean Imel's house. Dean replaced his roof with a polymer based roofing that has the look of real slate.
In this Newsletter, working with an excavator helped uncover rounded boulders, deck cleaning tip, glass & metal countertops, the Spring Stain Solver Sale ends at midnight, change your washing machine hoses, review my eBook, the MAC Virus alert, plumbing vent pipe video and poured vs concrete block foundations.
Lamp post lights will light up a dark rural street. Installing the post pole could be an issue depending upon your soil. Once the lamp post is set, you will need to run electric to it or use a solar energy light.
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