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Tips on Securing Your Home

Your house is your home, your fortress of safety. It’s a place where you keep your most important belongings: your checkbooks, your jewelry, your heirlooms, your important documents and, most importantly, your family. There are simple things you can do … Continue reading

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Fool-Proof Tips for Cleaning Wood Surfaces

To keep the wood surfaces in your home clean and beautiful without damage, you need to consider the kind of wood and the treatment its receives. General Cleaning for Wood Furniture and Paneling One of the first rules of cleaning … Continue reading

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Tips to Keep Your Trees Healthy

Trees and plants are living things just like ordinary humans and they not only need attention from time to time, but they also need the proper care and protection that enables them to live longer, healthier lives. Trees and landscapes … Continue reading

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Home Staging for a Fast Sale

Home Staging is the art of decorating a home to sell quickly and for top dollar. So, let’s transform your home in order to attract as many potential buyers as possible. Number One Rule: De-Clutter • Collect all those items … Continue reading

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Decorative Concrete Resurfacing

A concrete driveway has become an essential part of the landscaping plan that imparts an inviting image. The wide variety of texture, color, and patterns of concrete available today has elevated the driveway to the status of a landscape design … Continue reading

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Home Shelving–Your Best Storage Options

Our home and businesses are getting cluttered up with all the tools and accessories of modern life.  We need to be able to safely store our myriad possessions so that we can easily find them when needed. Shelving is one … Continue reading

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Caring for your Lawn in Spring

The sight of new grass growing in spring often leads the homeowner to run out and spread fertilizer to help the young blades along. This is actually the opposite of recommended practices for most lawns. The proper time to apply fertilizer … Continue reading

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Family Traditions, Clutter “Creep” and Family Handyman Training

Now that the Holidays are a pleasant memory, the household is almost back to “normal” and we ease our family back into the routine that supports our busy-ness.  However, as we put away decorations, restock the pantry and incorporate those … Continue reading

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Cold Weather Concreting

When it’s cold outside, placing, finishing and curing concrete calls for extra care.  In cold weather, concrete sets up more slowly.  Worst of all, there’s a risk that the fresh concrete will freeze—and if it does, the damage done by … Continue reading

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Improving Walls and Ceilings

Improving walls and ceilings is an excellent way to bring back the life of your home and great for maintaining equity on one of the biggest investments in your life. Many of the wall upgrades can be handled by an … Continue reading

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