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    Maintaining Your Home In This Economy With These 5 Tips

    5 ways to get the best bang for your home improvement buck in this economy. We have experienced several economic recessions in the nearly thirty years that we have made our living as remodeling contractors. It never fails;...

    • Posted June 3, 2015
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    Blast Away: Using A Pressure Washer For Outdoors

    Early summer is an excellent time to take on outdoor maintenance tasks that have been on the back burner awaiting warmer weather, but before it gets to be too hot. Right about this time of year we...

    • Posted June 3, 2015
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    How Long Will Your Home Last?

    One of us is a board member for the homeowner’s association for the community in which he resides. Along with fielding complaints from fellow homeowners regarding barking dogs, noisy neighbors and parking problems; the board is responsible...

    • Posted June 3, 2015
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    I Cant Hear You! How to Make Your House Quieter

    How to Make Your House Quieter In 3 Easy Steps First it was trains, planes and automobiles. Then lawnmowers, leaf blowers and barking dogs. Now it’s loud music, big screen televisions and home theatres. If were playing Jeopardy,...

    • Posted June 2, 2015
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    5 Steps To Prevent Mold, Mildew, and Peeling Paint In Your Bathroom

    Mold, mildew, and peeling paint is a bad sign. Here are 5 preventative steps to take before mold, mildew, and peeling paint ruins your bathroom. In the classic motion picture The Wizard Of Oz, Dorothy and her companions, when traveling through the forest, were...

    • Posted June 2, 2015
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    Common Paint Problems

    Paint can do wonders to breathe new life into the appearance of a dingy old room or the otherwise tired exterior of a home. Appearance aside, a good coat of paint on interior walls and woodwork can...

    • Posted June 2, 2015
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    Energy Saving Tips: One Simple Trick That Will Save you $15,000 A Year

    There is a lot of buzz around home energy saving tips. We are going to tell you the most efficient method. After enduring one of the harshest winters on record just last year, America’s homeowners are now...

    • Posted June 2, 2015
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    Over 300 People Die a Year From Ladder Falls: Ladder Safety Tips

    Tips for an injure-free experience with ladders. The invention of ladders has been traced back at least 10,000 years, to a primitive cave painting in Spain. The ladder is a tool of man – so basic in...

    • Posted June 2, 2015
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    DIY: Garden Hose Repair Trick That Will Save You Money

    A 4-Step method to garden hose repair. And it saves you money?! It doesn’t get any easier than this. Here is a Vintage AP illustration on garden hose repairs. This diagram is still relevant today, believe it...

    • Posted June 2, 2015
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    Tool Essentials: Pressure Washer

    Pressure washers can be a great investment for your tool arsenal. What are pressure washers? When we were teenagers we worked before and after school at our father’s car lot. We detailed the cars and did minor...

    • Posted June 2, 2015
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