Sealing Drafts

By Robert Robillard

Locating and Sealing A Kitchen Draft This customer was complaining about a cold draft coming from under her kitchen double oven cabinet. She also stated that on occasion a mouse or two has been spotted in the area and droppings had been found inside the drawer. [drawer taken out in picture below]  Sealing Drafts like…

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Adding Insulation To Your Home

By Robert Robillard

Winters Here ~ Add Insulation! Finding the source of where your structure is not efficient on energy use is the first step in cutting energy costs. The following represents the average breakdown of where energy usage and its “energy waste” come from:  Adding insulation to your home is one way to achieve this. 35% Appliance…

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Use a Test Piece To Avoid Carpentry Mistakes

By Robert Robillard

Carpenter’s Tip – Use a Test Piece for Tight Fitting Parts Practice makes perfect I always say, but so doesn’t test pieces. Whenever I’m doing finish work and I’m making what I call a “money cut,” which is a cut that has to be perfect, I always cut a test piece out of scrap wood. …

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Build Your Own Wine Cellar

By Robert Robillard

How To Build A Wine Cellar The idea to Build Your Own Wine Cellar is to create the ideal environment to store your wine collection. Temperature is always a major consideration in wine storage and the ideal wine storage temperature is between 55ºF and 58ºF as long as it doesn’t fluctuate too much. Ideally, the humidity…

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Power Cost Monitor

By Robert Robillard

Home Energy Monitoring Made Easy Ever wonder which appliances in your home eat up the most energy?  If you did know, would you use that knowledge to reduce your energy consumption either by shutting items off or replacing with an energy star rated appliance.    The PowerCost Monitor is a wireless energy monitor that displays…

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Creating New Customers

By Robert Robillard

Developing New Customers Customers Won’t Tell You Unless You Ask When it comes to creating customers and promoting my carpentry business there are two major factors that I consider.  These business factors apply to most businesses both large and small. Goals for Creating Customers Making my current customers become repeat customers. Getting my customers to…

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Can A Butler Door Be Installed On Tile?

By Robert Robillard

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “Post Your Questions Here . . .”: I have a regular door between my kitchen and dining room and would like to install a butler door there. Your information on how to do this was by far the best and easiest to understand. My problem is…

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Ice Dam Damage

By Robert Robillard

Ice Dam Damage Control Ice dam damage is not only costly it can become a health problem if the leak continues and mold grows. An ice dam is a ridge of ice that forms at the edge of a roof and prevents melting snow (water) from draining off the roof. The water that backs up…

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