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My experience with what you have is that painting it a lighter color will look ratty in a short period of time if that surface is used for anything but collecting dust. If you decided to keep the look but want lighter I would look at refinishing it lighter with stain and urethane as opposed to...

It ***** to be trying to keep up with the Jones. Don't settle for that way of life. Live life on the edge. Be a trend setter. Screw the 3 car garage and go with a 4. Put the whole neighborhood in its place.

Another common 'false alarm' is silverfish. They are notorious for camping out in the sensor chamber and then when they scurry about in it off goes the alarm, and those are most frequently in the middle of the night that they first crawl in and trip it. Years ago I've found little spiders, but...

I think there is a company that refurbs them here in the Vancouver region, because there is still enough demand. I believe I was quoted about $150 for a dbl 40 last winter. I ended up getting a used one off another contractor friend for $15. I needed one and even at $150 it would have still been...

Schluter walls or cement board painted with Red Guard? Good call on the base. Take your time seating the new one and then make sure you give it a nice cardboard skin so you don't chip your new base putting everything back together. One of our recent bath remodels had the clients do their...

It's a good cleaner of glue residue from stickers/lables. There are many uses for it just as there are many not-uses for it. The problem with it is that it does not discriminate the education level of the user in terms of how it is used.

Do a thorough investigation on any and all easements on the property. Do they have their own access from the road to their easement? That can be a real pain when they are constantly taking an 'easement' through your own "non-eased" property to get to the easement. Some properties I've looked at...

It is rare that I look at a manual but every once in a while I'll flip through one. As far back as I can remember expansion tanks were at least mentioned. I can only ever recall encountering one install with a hot water tank, and that was because it was being used as a 'boiler' for some radiant...

I'd either use Don Jo scar plates, a couple pieces of p-lam or your own brass or stainless plate cut to desired/required shape and size. I've repaired a few doors that didn't stand the test of time with rough users years ago we did a few with a rectangular piece of black p-lam. It kinda had the...

3/4 of an acre isn't 5 ac but you do say with many trees. That has me very leary about a battery blower being the right tool for the job. Maybe as a quick go over / touch-up tool but as a one and only I think I would be looking at a residential sized gas blower that is stored correctly and...

If the water is running from the outside edge towards the house, and that slab is on grade and not over a crawl space the simplest would be to drill, at your lowest point a small hole or core a hole large enough to put the smallest drain you could put in. That is quick and simple but only if...

You only need to freeze them if you need a clean pass, not a clean hole.

Stagger the seams else the install will look 20% of well done.

Would that bulb-plug adapter meet code?

The french drain is just a way of dealing with the symptom. Go outside dig down to the footing and put a new cement wall in to just above ground level. It doesn't have to be thick and massive and you only need to form up the outside of the wall. That will get you a non rubble wall that can be...

These are have worked well on my house for a number of years the first one I put on is about 10yrs old and apart from some dust from air moving through the duct it still works fine. My second one is only about 6 years old. Never seen an inside installable one.

Have you done any Radon research? You may be wise to look into that aspect and get that floor dealt with as a top priority.

Most of us seem to be in agreement another layer of roll roofing is overkill if you stick to your schedule. If for some reason you do go with another layer 1" might be a bit shy for your nails. If your tear down is in the 2-5 year range I'd put another layer. If you were to be looking at...

There are houses in my city that still run off of one 1/2" line coming in from the city, most run off of 3/4. A lot of the newer stuff has 1" or more. I haven't knowingly walked into a house with three 3/4" lines. What pressure does the city water come at and what sorta fixture unit demand do...

From the recipient of this kind of service on a couple jobs. I would say you may want to watch your lunches, and make sure there aren't too many donuts to be had. It could slow your production way down.