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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…
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…
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…
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…
Repairing A Garage Wall Push Out By A Car “Honey…. What was that noise?” A customer of mine called me recently to tell me that her husband accidentally drove into the back of their garage wall. The beauty of having loyal, repeat customers is she didn’t call to ask for an estimate she said, “please…
Closet Design ~ Interior Sketch View The photos above and below show wall space in a potential clients bedroom. She wants to add a closet against the angled wall to the window. Those closet design dimensions are approximately 88″w x 94″h x 28d” Thanks to my friend and Architect Daniel Broggi and his auto CAD skills…
What us Shiftboston? The SHIFTboston Ideas Competition is open to architects, artists, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers and anyone to submit innovative, radical and provocative visions for the City of Boston. The misson is to come up with a “What if” this could happen in Boston? SHIFTboston seeks to collect visions that aim to enhance…
It’s not often that a carpenter gets invited to a swanky design contest by an architect. My friend and architect Dan Broggi invited me to attend tonight’s SHIFTboston’s design contest. How cool is that? The competition is an international event and has generated interest from almost all 50 states and over 90 countries; inviting design…
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