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Lead PSA film
Most folks are oblivious to it, but new EPA lead regulations that effect anyone who owns, lives in, or works on a home built before 1978 will become effective on 4/22/2010. Here is a video that will tell you why its important to know about lead lead video
When There Is No GC All Hell Can Break Loose
Some folks don’t know what a residential general contractor (GC) does. The great Tom Silva on “This Old House” says it best: “A GC is a lot like a baseball coach. He or she puts the right player in the right position at the right time.” A great GC will also make sure that you are getting the best quality for your money and the right solution for a particular problem your home is having. […]
Dueling Dishwashers
dueling dishwashers Sexy. You bet. They save water too.
Your Fantasy Home Projects … We Want to Know!
All of us have home reno projects or "honey do" list items we fantasize about completing. We want to know what yours are. We invite our readers to share their wishes, dreams, and renovation fantasies here on our website. Some fantasy projects will be huge glamorous and "money is no object" in scope. Some dream projects may be an incredibly small thing you have "lived with" for too darn long. We'd like to know about the projects and project features that interest you most. Our blogging staffers will read your Fantasy Home Project ideas and stories. The best stories will be added to the blog roll and their authors will receive recognition and an Official Myers Constructs, Inc., long-sleeve t-shirt! Send stories to info@myersconstructs.com
Avoiding “Remuddles” Will Preserve Your Home’s Value
I recently surveyed this home in a nice leafy area of the city, very close to Jenkintown. Like many homes in Philadelphia, you can see this house has great bones. This center-hall Colonial was built in the 1910s of great materials and craftsmanship. This is one of the most efficient floor plans of homes you can find. […]
Here’s a Post We Love from Canadian Kitchen & Bath
BLUM hardware co created this aging suite to show you how your mobility is effected as you age, and how great kitchen design can help you age in place. BLUM VIDEO Listen to the speakers comments too on how most kitchen renovation buyers spend more time researching their car purchase than their kitchens, even though we all try to keep kitchens much longer than we keep our cars. […]
We are Looking for Home Owner Thoughts on Issues
We want to address issues that matter to our readers. Please give us some feedback on the following questions, or feel free suggest other ideas to us. 1. What's the one thing you would change about your home, if you could? 2. What's the biggest energy-saving change you've made in your home during the past year? 3. What one home product/appliance could you not survive without? etc. Thanks very much!
Red Oak Flooring at Lowest Prices of the Decade!
Just off the phone with my flooring pro who gave me some news to get excited about! There is so much red oak in clear/select (the best) on the market that prices are very low! In fact the cost of these top shelf red oak floors installed and refinished are the same as the price of many lower quality pre finished flooring products. If you have been putting off new flooring for your home, now is the time to buy it.
Who Wouldn’t Want to Use This?
Whatever happened to water fountains? Look at these beauties! You would feel like royalty using these. I did when I happened upon them at the Parkway Administration Building, a beautiful, LEED-certified building on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. These are a perfect example of how great design and craftsmanship make life better, even on the seemingly mundane level of getting a drink of water, which we all take for granted in the U.S. Bottled water is very wasteful. It costs more than gasoline. It puts millions of pounds of plastic into the landfills and the Pacific Gyre, where it kills animals. And plastic containers have also been linked to cancer in humans. Businesses and other non-domestic buildings should bring back water fountains! Make them beautiful, and people will use them.
More “Behind the Walls” Stuff : The Artistry of Our Subs!
On this project we are reworking a master bedroom bathroom suite. The old bathroom in this case was only about twenty years old. But inexpensive materials had been used in that DIY or low skilled contractor project. Here I am showing some snaps I took of the fine work our skilled subs are doing to help make the new master bathroom a high quality, long lasting project. You can see all the water lines and drains which will be under the subfloor are in place. Theses are for the new shower, toilet, sink, and tub. All the drains are required by the township to be pressure tested prior to closing the floor, to insure there are no leaks. The old plumbing vent through the roof has been cut and the stub through the roof is strapped into place for safety. We don't want a 30 pound piece of[...]
