When selecting siding for your home, be sure to consider fiber cement siding. This cement fiber siding, when installed properly according to the manufacturer's instructions, will last for years and years.
When selecting siding for your home, be sure to consider fiber cement siding. This cement fiber siding, when installed properly according to the manufacturer's instructions, will last for years and years.
Tim Carter discusses a few options on overhead doors.
A roofing nail gun can save you time and energy. Nail guns for roofing are designed to drive roofing nails into the shingles at just the proper depth. Some current nail guns don't require pneumatic lines from a compressor.
Tim Carter has trouble on the set installing foam insulation.
Building a ramp into your garden shed can be done in a weekend. Just following these helpful tips to make your ramp safe and sturdy. Make sure you get the proper slope on your shed ramp so that you can get your lawn mower in and out without bottoming out.
Tim Carter describes some of the structural components of a simple ramp. But he gets confused at times calling the ramp a shed!
It's possible to repair your asphalt driveway yourself and get long-lasting results. Some extra effort and hole preparation is required to get the hole ready so that the patching material lasts.
Tim Carter shows AZEK trim boards on one of his projects in this video.
Thousands of roof on homes and other buildings suffer from black streaks. The roof algae is doesn't harm the shingles, but looks bad. To remove roof algae a solution of oxygen bleach can be applied to the roof shingles and then rinsed off. A copper strip at the top of the roof can prevent future roof algae.
Trim board rot can be caused by either trim molding material and/or installation defects. The wrong type of molding trim wood can accelerate rot. If your trim lumber has not been painted properly, your door or window trim won't last as long.
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