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3 Bathroom Remodeling Strategies

Bathroom Remodeling Strategies – My Top 3

3 Bathroom Remodeling Strategies When you look at your bathroom to spruce it up or remodel it you need to ask yourself whether you have the time, energy and budget to take a project like this on.   At the end of the day there are three bathroom remodeling strategies to consider and all three are [...]

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Dust Extraction

Dust Extraction

Controlling Dust At The Job Site A good dust control strategy is essential to being a professional contractor and keeping your customer happy throughout a construction project. I’ve learned early on that learning how to control remodeling dust by keeping it out of the air and non-remodeled portion of your clients home is often more [...]

How To Install A Cupola

How To Install A Decorative Cupola

Installing A Cupola I love Cupolas, this article will show you how to How to install a decorative cupola. In my neck of the woods all barns worthy of their salt have a functional cupola an most of them.   I had the opportunity to rebuild an 80 to 100 year old cupola in historic Concord, [...]

How To Build A Disappearing Water Fountain

Building a Disappearing Fountain Basin With A Glazed Pot Part 1 of 2 A great friend of ours bought my wife and I a beautiful blue, glazed pot for our wedding anniversary. The blue glaze matches the blue tiles surrounding our pool. My wife has wanted a water feature by the pool for awhile now [...]

Bosch 18V Lithium-Ion Impact Driver

Bosch 18V Lithium-Ion Impact Driver

Bosch 18V Lithium-Ion 1/4 – inch Hex, Impact Driver – Model # 25618-01 By Josh Bordenca The Bosch 18V Lithium-Ion Impact Driver, model number 25618-01, is Bosch’s fastening driver. This 2,800 RPM/3,200 BPM, 125 foot-pound of torque driving machine will have you cruising fasteners home all day long. This impact driver has even claimed the title of [...]

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Kreg Automaxx Bench Clamp

Kreg Auto Adjusting Bench Clamp Kreg Tool Company recently released their Kreg Automaxx™ Bench Clamp that easily mounts to your workbench and automatically adjusts to the thickness of the material being clamped. As a carpenter and cabinet maker having clamps like this save you time and money.   The Kreg Automaxx Bench Clamp allows you to set [...]

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How To Design And Plan A New Bathroom

Designing Your Bathroom  As a remodeling contractor bathroom remodeling projects are high on my request list. Before you get started in any project you need a bathroom remodeling plan and then you need to consider three remodeling elements; Type Style Finish Types Of Bathrooms: The three basic types of bathrooms are: Master bathroom [luxury] Family [...]

Performing A Bathroom Plumbing Disconnect

Bathroom Plumbing Disconnect – The Easy Way

Plumbing Disconnect You’re remodeling your bathroom and are finally ready to replace the old chipped vanity and dull and worn out shower surround.    You want to demo the bathroom yourself to save money but your nervous of the live water pipes in the wall. Don’t be – here’s a simple approach to performing a plumbing disconnect [...]

Black and Decker 36V Lithium Ion Sweeper/Vac

Black And Decker 36V Lithium Ion Sweeper Vacuum

Black And Decker Cordless Sweeper Vacuum Model – LSWV36 At a price of  $149.99 the powerful Black And Decker 36V Lithium Ion Sweeper Vacuum i just what the doctor ordered for DIY and yard work projects. I’ve been using my Sweeper Vac for a month now and the Lithium- ion rechargeable battery powers this vac a long, long time. A Variable [...]

RIDGID 7 Inch tile Saw

Win A Ridgid 7 Inch Tile Saw

 Ridgid 7 Inch Tile Saw, Model R4030  - Tool GIVEAWAY The folks at Ridgid are offering one of my newsletter subscribers a chance to win their 7 inch tile saw. The RIDGID 7 Inch tile Saw is a lightweight, affordable, solid tile saw with durably quality features. In my opinion this saw is serious DIY-er or [...]

3 Bathroom Remodeling Strategies

Bathroom Remodeling Strategies – My Top 3

3 Bathroom Remodeling Strategies When you look at your bathroom to spruce it up or remodel it you need to ask yourself whether you have the time, energy and budget to take a project like this on.   At the end of the day there are three bathroom remodeling strategies to consider and all three are [...]

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Milwaukee Super Sawzall 6538-21

Milwaukee Super Sawzall Review 6538-21 By Jeff Kirk About the Author:  Jeff is a Journeyman Carpenter out of Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada.  Jeff works for Topsail Projects Inc, a  specializes in general contracting and renovations for commercial and residential properties in Halifax Regional Municipality. One of Milwaukee Power Tools staples in the Tool industry is [...]

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2013 Father’s Day Gift Guide

Father’s Day Gift Ideas Before you go out and buy another neck tie for Father’s Day stop and think about what you’re guy really wants and needs . . . now I realize that is  a loaded question, but what do all guys really want or need?     No it’s not a blonde girlfriend, [...]

How To Install A Bathroom Fan

How To Install A Bathroom Fan

Swapping Out A Bathroom Fan While are remodeling this bathroom we decided to change out the 23 year old existing exhaust fan with a new, properly sized Panasonic WhisperCeiling exhaust fan.  We felt the existing fan was too noisy and not large enough to handle the bathroom size.  After measuring the room and using the bathroom [...]