Spring: Home Maintainence Check List

By Robert Robillard

Image: http://oldwest.witchhunter.net/images/buildings/clapboard/old_West_buidling_clapboard_house_3.jpg Home Maintainence Check List As the weather warms, it’s time to start thinking about the exterior of your home. This Home Maintainence Check List will save you time and money. Here’s a quick Home Maintainence Check List of twenty items to check to keep your house well maintained and fit! 1. Check for loose…

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Spring Home Maintenance Check List

By Robert Robillard

Spring Home Maintenance Check List for Homeowners Image: http://oldwest.witchhunter.net/images/buildings/clapboard/old_West_buidling_clapboard_house_3.jpg As the weather warms, it’s time to start thinking about the exterior of your home. Here’s a quick list of twenty items to check to keep your house well maintained and fit! 1. Check for loose or leaky gutters. 2. Clean gutters and flush the downspouts.…

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Maintaining Your Water Feature

By Robert Robillard

Maintaining your water feature does not need to be a headache. On the contrary, if set up properly a garden water feature should be low maintenance. The following tips and some good old common sense should provide you with enough information to create and maintain a low maintenance, high enjoyment water feature. The problem many…

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Applying Trim In Confined Spaces

By Robert Robillard

  Applying Window or Door Trim In Confined Spaces   Applying trim in confined spaces frustrates many people.   In a perfect finish carpentry world all doors and windows would be installed with enough space to apply full width trim like in the picture below. The reality is that we sometimes we have to rip trim…

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Repairing Irrigation Pipe

By Robert Robillard

How To Repair Lawn Irrigation Pipe   Lawn irrigation is something most people install and then forget about. Leaks in these types of systems sometimes show up as puddles or geyser’s of water shooting from the ground. Possible causes for damaged irrigation pipe include frost and frozen water damage, cracks or holes caused by lawn equipment…

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Insulate Your Attic

By Robert Robillard

Insulating  Your Attic With today’s energy bills increasing and so many people trying to reduce energy used to heat their homes I thought article on how to insulate your attic was worth sharing. Energy Star has one of the best detailed how-to guides that I’ve seen on sealing air leaks and adding attic insulation. The…

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How To Repair Lawn Irrigation Pipe

By Robert Robillard

How To Repair A Damaged Pipe In A Lawn Irrigation System Lawn irrigation is something most people install and then forget about. Leaks in these types of systems sometimes show up as puddles or geyser’s of water shooting from the ground.  This article will show you how to repair lawn irrigation pipe. Possible causes for…

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Replacing a Bathroom Vent Duct

By Robert Robillard

Photos: Concord Carpenter Recently a client asked me to evaluate her bathroom fan. This fan was not removing the steam from the bathroom during showers and we both assumed the fan was the culprit.  Actually we ended up replacing the bathroom vent duct instead.    Read on to see how we figured out the issue.…

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