Recent Blog Posts

• Your Guide to Glues

  February 1, 2012
  Acrylic Glue: can be used on vinyl, rubber, metals, stone and plastic, but its primarily used on melamine.
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• Wood Paint Adhesion

  February 1, 2012
  Whether your home is newly constructed or purchased from a previous owner, painting its exterior is the first step toward putting your personal stamp on the home.
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• Improving Interior Stains

  February 1, 2012
  New technologies have made installing hardwood flooring and millwork in the hot, humid environment of a bathroom more acceptable these days.
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• Tips for removing finishing nails from molding

  January 1, 2012
  Sometimes forever doesn’t last as long as you think it will. When you put finishing nails into your molding, you were probably thinking that you wouldn’t have to worry about it ever again. That’s not always the case and you may decide that you want the molding out.
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• Can Vinyl Be Too Final?

  January 1, 2012
  Ironicaly, the fact that vinyl fencing can last so long can actually become a drawback. What happens if the homeowner simply gets tired of looking at the same thing year after year?
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• Know Your Wood When Selecting Paint

  December 1, 2011
  How well exterior paints and stains adhere to wood is a direct result of wood properties and the various manufacturing processes. Dense wood shrinks and swells more than light wood, which stresses paint and solid-color stains and causes them to chip or peel prematurely.
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• Hardwood Moulding Installation

  December 1, 2011
  Architectural details done with hardwood mouldings are the perfect finishing touches to your workmanship.
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• Choosing a contractor over doing it yourself

  November 1, 2011
  Okay, doing it yourself does carry certain perks – for one, taking pride in pointing out your workmanship to friends and family, and secondly, saving money over hiring a professional contractor.
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• How to correctly measure for replacement doors

  November 1, 2011
  Looking to upgrade your exterior steel door to a more energy efficient fiberglass or solid wood door?   Or perhaps you want to replace the composite interior doors with a higher-grade wood door. Or maybe you need a new patio door to access your new deck.
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• Making good use of bad cuts

  October 1, 2011
  Even the most skilled carpenter can make an error, but just because an error occurs, doesn't mean the job is ruined. If you make a bad cut on an angled piece of moulding, correct the error by making a clean cut on the inside of the defect.
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