Do It Yourself

  • Do It Yourself Home Safety Advice - One thing that I have to say about do-it-yourselfers is that they love to learn new things. The problem with learning these new things is that they only want to learn the things that they're interested in. This might not include home safety and this is where the problems seems to start.
  • Do-It-Yourselfers Need to Take a Chill Pill - Home Repair Safety - If you're the kind of do-it-yourselfers that is always in a hurry and doesn't have time to do anything, you need to read this article. If you're the type of do-it-yourselfers that understands everything about home repair safety and never does anything to jeopardize your personal safety or the safety of others, you can stop reading right here.
  • Structural Wood Beam Replacement Nightmare - Unbelievable Do-It-Yourself Story - The story that I'm about to tell you, might not be true, but the point that it makes is incredible and it should be shared with others. There are some home repairs that shouldn't be done by do-it-yourselfers and structural wood beam replacement is one of them.
  • Why Won't You Maintain Your House? - No Money for Home Repairs - As people become more health-conscious and understand that they need to eat the proper foods and get a certain amount of exercise on a daily basis, people are starting to live longer. If you regularly change the fluids in your vehicle, they seem to last longer and have fewer problems. So obviously it makes sense to maintain anything that you want to last a long time.
  • Four Tips How to Prevent Water Damage - I honestly believe that I could go to 10 houses and find at least two of them with water damage, somewhere. I don't know how many times I drive around residential neighborhoods and see homes that are neglected from the outside and can only imagine what they look like on the inside.
  • Emergency Water Leak Problems You Can Solve on Your Own - One of the worst things that can happen to any homeowner is a water leak. Especially one that's leaking water all over your house and you can't stop it. You don't know where to shut the water off and no one ever showed you how.
  • Five Home Electrical Tips for Do-It-Yourselfers - Remember that electricity can be dangerous to work with and it wouldn't be a bad idea to get a couple of books to familiarize yourself with your home electrical system. If you don't understand the basics of electricity, you're probably going to have problems making successful electrical repairs to your home.
  • Why Do I Need to Inspect My Home? - Believe it or not, this is one of those questions that no one ever asks me, but one that I would like to answer. Why do I need to inspect my home? The answer is simple, so that you can save yourself from the future pain of expensive home repair bills.
  • Two Ways to Solve Exterior Wood Post Problems - If you have a wooden post holding up a section of your home, it would benefit you and your family, to continue reading the rest of this article. If you have any exterior wood posts that are holding up a covered patio, porch or even a wood deck, here's two ways that can help you solve your exterior wood post problems.
  • What's the Difference between Home Repairs and Home Maintenance? - If you know the difference between a home repair and home maintenance, you probably don't need to read the rest of this article, but for those of you who keep asking this question, I will try to shed a little bit of light on the topic of home repairs and home maintenance.
  • Hiring the Cheapest Contractor - Watch Out Homeowners - Anyone who was ever hired the cheapest contractor, knows what I'm talking about. They don't even need to read this article or get a refresher's course on this topic. There probably some of the people who actually hired the cheapest contractor, only to pay the ultimate price later, after they started to suffer the consequences of dealing with these people. They seem to etch these memories and their minds, for ever.
  • Should I Hire an Electrician? - I would like to say no, but I'm going to have to say yes. Electricity is the one thing in your house that can actually kill you. It's one of the most dangerous things for a homeowner to mess around with, especially if you don't have any experience or have very little experience working with home electricity.
  • Figuring the Lumber for Interior Wall Framing - Framing a new wall, anywhere in the home will not be very difficult to do. However, removing an interior wall on the other hand could be an enormous task and create some big problems, especially if you remove a load bearing wall. A load bearing wall would be something that is holding up another section of the home, like the roof or the floor.
  • Avoiding Mistakes for Do-It-Yourselfers - Drain Clearing - The other day I was in a popular home improvement center picking up some irrigation parts for our house, when I was ease dropping on a conversation between an older man and one of the stores representatives. The man explained to the so-called in house plumbing expert that he had a clogged drain and was looking for a product that could be poured into the drain and solve his problems.
  • Making Your Own Door or Window Headers - Some contractors prefer to build their own door and window headers, and these guys have been doing this for years. It seems like more people do this on the East Coast and even in the Midwest but it is rarely seen on the West Coast of the United States.
  • Simple Toilet Troubleshooting - Clogged Toilet Drain Plumbers Trick - One of the most important parts of any home is the toilet. Depending upon the size of your family, this plumbing fixture could be used often and if there's a problem with it, not only will it waste water, but it can be extremely frustrating.