High Hardware Prices and Your Garage and Workshop I took over the grocery shopping duties to give my lovely wife a break. She did it for over forty years. Each week I continue to be astonished at the prices of ordinary food staples like bacon, eggs, bread, and milk. Do you suffer from the same […]
How To Stop Contractor Scams - True Stories This is a milestone column for me. It’s my 1500th weekly column. For weeks leading up to this day I’ve wanted to produce a column that will save you vast sums of money, prevent confrontations, sleepless nights, and arguments. My goal is to empower you with all […]
Red Pilling People - Wake UP! It's time for you to wake up. While you may not think you're a slave, it's pretty much true. "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth. What truth? That you are a slave, INSERT YOUR NAME."
Angel Builds a New Dormer - With a Little Help From a Friend One of the most fulfilling moments of my career happened just a few days ago. It’s a story worth sharing for so many reasons, not the least of which it should inspire you to do something up until a moment ago you […]
A Canadian Remodeling Nightmare - Betrayal of Trust I’d like to share a story with you. This saga transpired over the past six weeks and I feel it contains a valuable teaching moment that is guaranteed to save you thousands of dollars, allow you to sleep at night, and go to dinner with your remodeling […]
Ed Dowd the Number Cruncher Shares Facts I shared this video with my 25,000 newsletter subscribers on March 1, 2023. The sole intention was to provide my subscribers with information they previously might not have known about. As you'd expect, there was both positive and negative feedback. The email content of what I sent to […]
Home Depot Quartz Countertop Story Two days ago, February 24, 2023, I found myself re-installing three sinks for a young woman Kathy and I know from our church. She had new countertops installed in her kitchen and two bathrooms by Home Depot. The day before I was at her home as the countertop contract workers […]
Artificial Intelligence and Home Improvement - Humans 1 AI Zero I’m celebrating my thirtieth year of doing my best to protect you against home improvement scams, not-so-good products, and anything that’s a threat to you when it comes to building, remodeling, or maintaining your home. I’ve stood up to billion-dollar corporations to prevail on your […]
ChatGPT vs Tim Carter a Real Human Below are two columns. One was written by the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT. The other was written by me, Tim Carter. I was an award-winning builder before I started my syndicated newspaper column Ask the Builder. After reading each one, think about how authoritative each one is. Are […]
Lead in Ceramic Coffee Mugs - You Could be Killing Yourself Slowly Do you have ceramic mugs as you see in the photo above? Did you know the silica glaze and the pigments used in them often contain lead? Did you know how little lead it makes to make you sick? I copied this from […]
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