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How To Install A Wall Safe: Most crimes committed are related to theft of personal property from a residential location. There are many precautions you can take to secure your home from locking your house to installing an alarm. Installing a wall safe is also a way to further secure items inside your home. …
Older dishwashers, ten years or more, are neither energy efficient nor water efficient. Often times using between 8 an 15 gallons of water per cycle. Purchasing a new Energy Star rated dishwasher can save you 1,000 gallons or more water per year as well as use 10-13% less energy. The following dishwasher buying guide can help you…
Protecting Your Tools From Rust: The idea for the article, How To Keep Rust Off Woodworking Tools, came to me after I found one of my kid’s had placed a wet snow sledding tube on-top of my table saw table. I had told her to leave the snow tube in my shop so I could…
Compact Cordless Vacuum for Mobile Contractors As a remodeling carpenter we do our fair share of small service jobs and handyman work. The hidden benefit to doing these “small jobs,” is what I call “client face-time.” We believe that the more face-time with a client ~ the better opportunity for future projects. In order…
Vented Crawl Spaces Can Cause Problems Crawl spaces are common in the building trade, and especially with new additions. While geographic areas, water tables and rock ledge may play a factor in deciding whether to install a crawl space versus a full basement, many builders like them because they’re easier, faster and cheaper to install. …
Festool CT Mini HEPA Dust Extractor 584156 Review At ConcordCarpenter we are remodeler as well as mobile contractors. That means that we sometimes travel from one job to the next, sometimes doing two or three jobs a week. That also means setting up and cleaning up a few times a day. Having tools that easily…
Image: www.in.gov/dnr/images Repairing Greek Revival Cornice Roof Returns The Greek Revival roof return style emulated the temple forms of ancient Greece, resulting in the creation of straightforward, box-like buildings we see in historic towns of America. Most Greek Revival buildings have substantial cornices that extended into gable ends as “returns.” Below picture: this house…
Wobble Light WL400MH Self-Righting 400 Watt Metal Halide Work Light Review At ConcordCarpenter we are all about innovative solution to old job site problems. We recently started looking at job site lighting and the issues surrounding, and difficulties obtaining a rugged, durable, and reliable work lighting. We first spied the 36” Wobblelight Metal Halide Work…
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