"Benches are just very wide chairs in my opinion. I don’t like hoping something is going to work so I always look at existing benches and take measurements." Build Deck Bench Seating Checklist A bench is just a series of small walls Copy dimensions from favorite chairs in your home WATCH cheeky building video below […]
I'm sitting at gate 54A here in the San Francisco airport waiting to get back home. I've been out here on the Left Coast of the USA for over two weeks. Two weeks ago, I was just starting a very interesting tour of the KEEN shoes and boots factory in Portland, Oregon. CLICK HERE to […]
If you're a new subscriber in the past two weeks, this is not a normal newsletter. Don't judge my newsletter on what you're about to see. I'm in the middle of an extended vacation that had a business meeting last week in Portland, OR, and in six days I have another one in San Francisco. […]
KEEN Footwear Factory Tour The first week of August, 2017, I found myself in Portland, Oregon. As fate would have it, I arrived in the midst of an historic heat spell. I had been invited to visit the KEEN Utility factory, headquarters and epic KEEN Garage where they have a retail store in downtown Portland's […]
KEEN Footwear Factory Tour I had the distinct pleasure to attend a media event at the KEEN Utility factory in Portland, OR in August 2017. I've been on many factory tours over the past twenty years and this was the BEST ONE ever. First, it's a smaller factory with about eighty people working diligently […]
Below are deck materials for a 12 x 10 foot deck at nearly ground level. These prices listed for the decking materials were taken in August 1996, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This column was authored in 2017. It's now 2025. The polymeric sand I used on my patio failed within four years. It looked good for about three years, but then it started to succumb to the harsh New England winters. I never pressure-washed the patio, so that's not the reason for the […]
Building On Rocky Land TIPS This article led to Tim doing a video conference with Ms. Chantell Mason's school classes. They had questions on building on rocky soil. Read about this amazing video conference in Tim's April 29, 2018 Newsletter. Groundwater moves sideways towards home Create a space or trench between footing and rock wall […]
Selling Used Building Materials TIPS People will buy just about anything - don't assume you have garbage Clean everything up and take great photos Be honest in your description and price about 45% below new WATCH VIDEO BELOW CLICK HERE to Get Tim's FREE & FUNNY Newsletter! DEAR TIM: I’m about to do a significant […]
If you're a new subscriber in the past few days, this is an abnormal newsletter. When I have a sale on my certified organic oxygen bleach Stain Solver, I always make a LAST CALL announcement. I'll put out a somewhat normal newsletter soon - maybe this week as I travel to Portland, OR, for the […]
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