Home Maintenance

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Keep Your Baseboards Fresh with Routine Painting and Cleaning

Let’s be honest. It’s easy to overlook your baseboards, isn’t it? Your walls tend to steal the show, with ceilings, trim, cabinetry, and other elements of the space following after. Baseboards just aren’t very exciting. They are a high-traffic surface, however, and this means that they’re going to collect dings, gouges, scuffs, and scrapes. And…

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5 Reasons Why Cleaning Your Gutters Is More Important Than You Think

We’ve noticed over the years that many homeowners let gutter cleaning slide off the bottom of their maintenance to-do list, or maybe never make a place for it at all. Part of this may be due to the fact that gutter cleaning isn’t exactly a fun activity; nobody really looks forward to it (at least…

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6 Practical Tips for Ladder Safety This Fall

Don’t look now, but fall is coming! This means that in no time at all you might get the urge to wrap up a little exterior painting before the snow flies, pull leaves out of the gutters, or maybe hang those lights you’re famous for along the porch roof. And, there’s also a good chance…

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Do I Need to Use Primer?

Is it worth the extra step? When it comes to interior painting, or really any home improvement project, the tedious initial steps are no fun compared to those final stages when the magic really happens. Tearing a bathroom apart, for example, is just tiring (and sometimes scary) compared to watching the new vanity and that…

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Home Painting Tips – How to Keep Your Project Neat

When it comes to interior and exterior house painting projects, skill is definitely important. Watching an experienced pro cut a flawless line or efficiently transform a space is mesmerizing, especially if painting is a real passion of yours. Using the right products is crucial too, matching the ideal paint to your surface for your property’s…

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Can I Paint My Brick Home?

There’s no denying that brick is a popular, enduring building material here in Connecticut and New York. It offers a level of sophistication and natural warmth that flies higher than fickle trends. Over time, however, age and the elements get the best of us, and brick is no exception. If your home’s mortar is eroding…

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