The holiday season will be here before you know it. Now is the time to get started on those home improvement projects you’ve been putting off, so your home will be in mint condition for those upcoming holiday
I’ve been seeing leaves changing colors and beginning to fall. Now is the right time to do these five maintenance tasks to help your home function better during the winter: Look at the vegetation around your home. If you have
When our clients are looking at investing in a home maintenance or remodeling project, they often ask if they will get their money back if and when they sell their house. There are many variables that affect the answer, and
Summer will officially start this coming Friday, June 21st at 12:04am Central time, and the daylight hours will then start becoming shorter. Now is a great time to utilize the extra daylight to catch up on the home maintenance projects
A properly operating water sprinkling system is essential if you want to have a properly maintained landscape around your home. A water sprinkler system is an exact science. If you over water, you have mushy ground with diseases, dying vegetation,
It looks like we completed this tornado shelter just in time—The National Weather Service has north Texas under a severe storm warning tonight and tomorrow morning. Hopefully the client won’t need it, but what a comfortable feeling they must have,
We recently finished this great-looking patio cover. Its design stemmed from the client’s desire for a cedar arbor and my desire for the client to have a more functional and long-lasting structure. When first built, arbors like the ones pictured
This week is National Severe Weather Preparedness Week, sponsored by FEMA and NOAA. This is effort is a good one because I remember so many of us getting caught off guard last April when about a dozen tornadoes tore through
I had noticed the rain and warmer temperatures we’ve had the last few weeks had helped some of the grasses and weeds start to grow, and I can’t believe we are seeing flying bugs in mid-January. These are signs that
Now is the time to tackle a few chores to get your home ready for winter. Clean the gutters and roof. The dry fall we have had allows a lot of dust, dirt and leaves to settle in the gutters
A friend recently called in a panic. She was leaving for work, and when she pushed the overhead door opener button, she heard a tremendous BANG, and the door sagged and stopped working. I went to take a look and
After five weeks of on-site work time, our garage and patio cover project will be complete this week. Check out that interior finish! It’s the ultimate garage finish, painted floor, wood-sheathed walls painted white and a plenty of light. I
