Video: The right roof for a 120-year-old Georgian home

Night is a perfect opportunity to add another dimension to your curb appeal. What’s the best light for boosting a home’s curb appeal at night?…

We received a call from a homeowner near Philadelphia asking us about a new roof for his old home and he had both specific, and…

Question: An 1890s era home (OK, mansion) in my town has a unique window cut into the roof. It’s slender all of 8 inches wide…

An old house gets a new door—and more. Mark checks down professional-grade techniques for safely installing a new door in an old house, and increasing…

“Ouch!” It’s an exclamation I heard often within the confines of my small kitchen, where people regularly banged into an awkwardly placed door when trying…

There are a few quick tips to edge your lawn like a pro. Check these out. A neatly trimmed lawn is a thing of beauty….

People often lament that choosing exterior colors is so much harder than picking colors for an interior when just the opposite is true. When choosing…

Check out the March issue of Extreme How-to magazine featuring ‘New Roof—Once and Done’ by Mark. Here’s the scenario: I was working on a 135-year…

Over the years I’ve spoken to hundreds of homeowners about why they find selecting colors for their home so challenging and it always seems to…

There are just some parts of a lawn where it’s harder to get grass seeds started than others. I encounter this a lot with remodeling…

When you see a raging wildfire race by, that’s one of those events that changes the way you see the world. And that’s what happened…

Chad Gillikin, publisher from Extreme How-To magazine, is sharing news from the magazine from inside the Therma-Tru doors / Fypon molding booth at the International…

He’s stripping the old asphalt shingles with the Red Ripper, repairing the roof deck, applying Grace Ice & Water Shield over the entire roof, and then installing DaVinci Roofscapes synthetic slate tiles.

There’s a lot to consider when you set out to refurbish an old porch. They’re challenging, and not just because every porch is different.

It’s the dust you can’t see that concerns us the most. That’s why we practice lead safe remodeling in our clients’ homes, and in our…