Garage storage lofts offer an easy way to clean up everything on the floor. Construct a loft on the back wall of your garage.
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Home hurricane protection can come from simple metal connectors. Connect your roof trusses all the way down to the foundation. Read about these metal connectors.
Garages are often built too small for all the stuff that needs to be stored in them. A dream garage size has an interior size of 32 feet wide by 26 feet deep with 12 foot high walls. Here are some suggestions to build your dream garage.
Lead paint is in tens of millions of older homes in the USA. This lead-based paint is an enormous hidden health hazard. Toxic lead poison dust can be created by scraping or sanding this paint. Proper lead paint removal is extremely expensive. Covering it with lead-free paint is often the best choice. If a contractor is going to work on or around painted surfaces in your home, you likely will need to sign a lead paint disclosure form.
Sandpaper needs to match your job. Select from different sandpaper types, sandpaper grades, sandpaper grits and sandpaper numbers to complete your specific job to perfection.
Do you remember all of the hysteria and the buildup to January 1, 2000? A bunch of doomsdayers predicted the world was going to end. Heck, you would think Superman was going to be called in to stop the rotation of the Earth so we could go back in time and take the necessary time to fix all of the goofed up computers. It was hilarious if you want my opinion.
Central vacuum systems are wonderful. Install one in your new or existing home. Dust and dirt are blown outside of your home. Central vacuum system sizing is important.
I have lost track of the number of room additions I have built. But each time we had to demolish the existing house wall where we connected the addition, there was asphalt felt paper under the outer skin of the house. Old builders knew that water could get behind every outer building material. Now builders can use high-tech house wraps. Is your builder choosing wisely?
Oh the misery. You have gotten into a dog fight with your builder and it is time to hire an attorney. Going to court is ugly, expensive and emotional. It is also a gamble, unless you happen to hold the winning hand.
Urethane house paint is an exterior paint that will cover well, stick even over dirty, glossy surfaces, and last. Paints that last for years and years have resins or glue in the paint that are very sticky.
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