Mistakes. We all make them when remodeling a house. We once hired a contractor to pull off door and window trim, add drywall and put the trim back on. "Should we label the trim for you so you can keep track of which trim goes where?" we asked. "Oh nooooo……I'll take care of that," he said. Well, he somehow forgot as he hauled trim from the entire second floor out ...

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I don't know about you, but when I see the words "simple" and "savings" combined I get a big smile on my face. Maybe it's just my inner couch potato rearing her ugly head but the easier a do-it-yourself project, the better as far as I'm concerned. Put that together with cost savings of any kind and I might just pass out. I'm only slightly exaggerating. Simply deciding to take on ...

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Skunk. That's all you have to say and everyone gets it.  One mention (or whiff) of a skunk and I have flashbacks to the one who blasted our sunroom from the crawl space below. Unfortunately we were sleeping in the sunroom at the time to avoid our construction disaster on the second floor. What a way to start the day! Protecting Home Investments Then there was the squirrel that came down the chimney ...

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If you're reading this blog right now, I'm going to take a big leap of logic and assume that you've got a house. Or at least live in a house. Or live in some sort of home-like space that needs to be repaired or otherwise worked on from time to time. I know. I'm smart like that. When you spend time improving your home-like space, eventually you do some work to it ...

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