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Choosing the Right Garage Door Here’s a secret most home-builders won’t tell you: Home-buyers don’t think about a garage door unless it’s broken. The thought is, the door only needs to be functional, it doesn’t need to be beautiful. It’s that prevailing attitude that leads builders to install the same white, stamped-metal, un-insulated garage door…
Adding New Walls Next to Old Plaster Walls I run a remodeling company and on many projects we find ourselves removing portions of rooms to access pipes and wires and later blending new wallboard to old wallboard. sounds simple enough and it is if you take a few preparation steps. Many folks feel that you…
Photo by concord carpenter. [Notice vent in upper door.] Solutions To A Problematic Furnace Room This door leads to a mechanical room that is located in a barn converted into a house. We were contracted to replace the door and also deal with Venting A Furnace Room. The furnace room is accessible from the outside…
Structural Floor Joist Repairs As a remodeling contractor and carpenter, one common structural framing issue I see a lot of in bathroom remodeling jobs are floor joists that were cut, drilled, notched, or need to be cut out to accommodate plumbing pipes and drains. The time to address these structural issues, like reinforcing floor joists,…
Building A Firewood Storage Shed This article is about building a firewood shed. This morning was was cool and a perfect morning to install the roofing. I installed a rubberized membrane [ice and water shield] on the roof sheathing as a redundancy layer under the shingles. This membrane runs up the side wall of the…
Adjusting A Sliding Door A customer of mine recently called me to replace a slider door that was difficult to open, close and lock. Upon further inspection this slider was fairly new, efficient but just not aligned properly on the tracks. A simple slider door adjustment was all that was needed and once adjusted properly…
Repairing A wood Screen Door Screen doors take the summer abuse more than anything else in the house. Between the kids pushing into the screen and the dog the screen doesn’t have a chance. Here’s a few tips on replacing a screen in a wood screen door. Repairing The Screen Remove the small wood ground…
Building A Wood shed A customer of mine asked me to construct a wood storage shed for them behind their garage. The firewood is currently being stored against the back of the garage and the lack of gutters has rain water cascading onto the wood pile. This is part 1 of a series on How…
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