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Contractors and Paperwork

The world runs on paperwork, it seems. You can?t buy a house without destroying a few hundred trees for riders, contracts, insurance documents and mortgage notes. You can?t sign your kid up for a summer sport without signing riders, providing paperwork evidencing proof of insurance and reading participation guidelines.
Guess what? [...]

Avoiding Ugly Home Improvements

Home improvement. Look at the second word for a moment. Improvement. Making things better.
If you?re home improvement project produces something unattractive, it?s hard to say that you really made anything substantially better, right? You need to avoid ugly home improvement efforts if you want to really maximize the value of your [...]

Safety: A Home Improvement Prerequisite

People undertake home improvement projects for a number of reasons. Generally, they?re excited at the prospect of making their home a nicer place. They?re motivations are strong and their desires to get a job underway are strong.
It?s important to remember, however, that there is often some degree of risk when completing a project. [...]

Attics and Energy Efficiency

Did you know that attics are often the least energy efficient part of a home. They?re often leaky and under-insulated. The amount of energy used in home heating and cooling that escapes through attics is mind-boggling. Many homeowners could radically reduce their heating and cooling costs simply by tending to their attics.
Unfortunately, [...]

Used Home Improvement Supplies

Many homeowners have great home improvement ideas that they just don?t implement. The stumbling blocks to completion can take many forms, but one of the most common is a lack of resources. Money. If you can?t afford to convert that extra space in the attic into a spare bedroom, it just isn?t [...]

Thinking Long Term About Home Improvement

Would you rather have someone give you a dollar today or ten dollars in a week? Unless you?re really suffering for cash at the moment, you?d probably bide your time to hold out for the ten-spot, right? Good thinking.
Strangely, however, people sometimes fail to apply that same logic to home improvement. Too [...]

My Dog Called the Cops?

One of the best home improvement projects out there involves the installation of an alarm system. Obviously, a good alarm has some direct value to the homeowner, who can feel more secure in his or her well-being. It can also reduce insurance premiums for some people while simultaneously increasing the resell value of [...]

When Air Conditioning Power is a Bad Thing

We have a tendency to believe that bigger is better. Why settle for a smaller version of anything when you can get the ?super deluxe? model, right? Well, when it comes to air conditioners there actually are some very good reasons NOT to go for more system than you really need. [...]

Warning: Garage Door Work Can be Dangerous

Are you considering changing your garage door or installing a new garage door opener as part of your home improvement plan? If so, you need to take extra care for your safety. Garage door work can be very dangerous.
It?s not much the risk of getting crushed under a big ol? door. That [...]

Improve Your Air Conditioning System

Here?s an absolutely amazing fact. According to US government sources, one-seventh of the electricity produced in America every year is used to power air conditioning units. That?s right, we use over 10% of our total power output to keep buildings, factories and homes cool. That?s a huge power draw.
Your home is a [...]

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