Home Energy Audit

By Robert Robillard

  Energy Audit Shows Problem Areas: A home energy audit is used to assess how much energy your home consumes and to evaluate what measures you can take to make your home more energy efficient. An audit will show you problem areas in your home. These areas, if corrected, can save you hundred of dollars…

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Green Building

By Robert Robillard

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Practice Of Green Building: Green building is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources — energy, water, and materials — while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment during the building’s life cycle, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal. Focus…

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Education in a Trade

By Phil Benevides

Engaging our youth in the Trades – Advanced Education CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2…    Advanced Education doesn’t mean College Education When your son or daughter embarks on a career in the trades, that doesn’t mean they’re never going to be a student again. In fact they’ll begin as a student or apprentice as they embark…

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Milwaukee SHOCKWAVE Expand

By Phil Benevides

Milwaukee SHOCKWAVE Expand The Milwaukee SHOCKWAVE Expand series brags that with their products you can “DO MORE and CARRY LESS”. The idea is built around magnetic bit holders that allow you to switch out smaller bits that fit snugly into the holder. With these space and weight saving concepts driving our industry its no wonder…

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DEWALT Heated Jackets

By Phil Benevides

DEWALT Heated Jackets By Phil Benevides DEWALT announced at the end of July they would be releasing a line of battery powered heated jackets. With the recent release of Milwaukee’s heated hoodies, its safe to say the competition is warming up between these two tool giants. The DEWALT Heated Jackets run off of either the…

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NEW Milwaukee Tape Measures

By Phil Benevides

NEW Milwaukee Tape Measures By: Phil Benevides Just when you thought “They’ve done it all” and your sure “Nothing can get better than THIS!” Milwaukee unveils some new and innovative features for a tool as old as the trades. Tape measurers are the foundation on which make almost all other tools accurate, without a reliable…

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DEWALT RIght Angle Drill DW120K Review

By Phil Benevides

DeWalt Heavy-Duty 1/2″ Reversible Right Angle Drill Kit By: Phil Benevides Right out of the box you know this drill is the real deal, besides the primary handle and the 5-position side handle, the tool is composed of heavy duty die-cast metal, which houses the gears of the motor. The DEWALT Right Angle Drill DW120K weighs…

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Installing Custom Shower Glass Enclosure

By Robert Robillard

Installing A BASCO Custom Shower Glass Enclosure The 5 x 7 utilitarian master bathroom is history. Say hello to luxurious baths with heated floors, marble stonework,  high end plumbing fixtures, vanity cabinets, look like furniture, custom shower enclosures that look like walls of glass! Today’s bathrooms have become private personal grottos where the homeowner can retreat…

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