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If you have an old house, you know this refers to the wiring that’s probably coursing current to your lights and plugs. The knobs are…
This big blog on building bathrooms is coming to you from the floor of The Remodeling Show where I am delivering several demonstrations on (can…
Here’s an elemental truth about bathroom remodeling: Pound for pound, ounce for ounce, and brick for figurative brick bathrooms rank at the top of the…
I love tile. Sure, my zeitgeist is wood, but tile tells a house’s story in a verse much different from its leafy cousin. It has…
Vita in Florida writes (My replies are in italics. I can also speak in italics, but only at parties🙂 Mark, Just the man I want…
Is it just me or are you giving a lot of bids to prospective customers who are simply shopping price, or, as the car-cliche goes,…
So here’s one from the “While-You’re-Here-Could-You-Just…” Department. I get hired to build things, but I’m often asked to do other stuff. In this case, it…
In a switch from our usual tool reviews, two of our residential construction aces take a look at a couple of the new TimberlandPRO work…
By any other standard the door to my son’s room is broken. Not only is one of the five horizontal raised panels in the century…
I think plumbing, like real estate sales, is one of those businesses where 10% of the people do 90% of the work. And right now…
“Make a decision and the rest will follow,” goes a phrase I read once, attributed to an ancient Chinese proverb. And what follows when you…
“Tough times make tough people.” I read that in a great book about the World Series of Poker called The Biggest Game in Town by…