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  Belgard Pavers the Way to Success

  A small, weathered and aging 111-year old bungalow, located at 604 Second Street in Old Town Brentwood California, presented a unique challenge for Carey Brothers Remodeling to do a total top-to-bottom and inside-out period restoration. The house...

  • Posted March 25, 2018
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  Jeffrey Court, Fashion Forward Timeless Tiles for an Historic Renovation

  One of the key visual elements and challenges in renovating and updating a historic 100-year-old plus bungalow was to find and recapture the right vintage looking ceramic tiles for the various rooms. We chose to recapture the...

  • Posted March 25, 2018
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  How To Remove Old Caulk in 6 Easy Steps

  Before you can put a bead of nice, fresh caulk around your bathtub or window, you need to completely remove the old caulking. We’ll teach you how in 6 easy steps!  The caulk around a bathtub looks...

  • Posted March 24, 2018
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  Show Notes: Clean Kitchens and Water Conservation

  Bacteria-Killing Light For Your Kitchen Cleaning is still an excellent way to rid your kitchen of bacteria, but this LED light takes germ-killing to the next level.   But now, there’s another tool to whip out of...

  • Posted March 24, 2018
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  Time To Clean Your Window Screens

  Keep the coughing to a minimum and June bugs at bay by cleaning your screens once a year. Dirty screens are a two-fold problem: they mess with air quality and are easily damaged. Rate the dirtiness of...

  • Posted March 24, 2018
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  Why World Water Day Matters

  In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly designated March 22 as the first World Water Day. Consider the following facts – some wondrous, some disconcerting, all eye-opening.   There is about 332,500,000 cubic miles of it on earth...

  • Posted March 24, 2018
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  Choose The Right Paint

  Shopping for paint and getting a little confused by all the different types of paint names you are seeing? One company has 16 different paint names to select from.   Here are the basics: According to the Interior...

  • Posted March 24, 2018
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  For Sale: Super-Fortified And Booby-Trapped Estate

  The safest house in America might be a sprawling 36,000-square-foot compound outside Atlanta. And it’s a bargain at $14.7 million. Built to last 1,000 years and to withstand every type of attack, the eight-bedroom, 15-bathroom house cost...

  • Posted March 24, 2018
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  Bacteria-Killing Light For Your Kitchen

  Cleaning is still an excellent way to rid your kitchen of bacteria, but this bacteria-killing LED light takes cleaning to the next level. But now, there’s another tool to whip out of your germ-killing kit to take...

  • Posted March 24, 2018
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  Using Custom Made Doors on a Historic Renovation, with Simpson Door Company

  Finding doors to match our renovation to the “T” was a major concern, however, we thrilled to find that the Simpson Door company could manufacture for us. Both entry and interior doors we created from Douglas Fir,...

  • Posted March 17, 2018
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