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Tips for Keeping Your For-Sale Home Spotless with Kids Around

When you’re selling a home, more buyers mean more competition, higher offers, and a faster sale. Decluttering, cleaning, and staging are all crucial for attracting interested buyers. However, keeping a home show-ready can be significantly more difficult for parents; after all, kids are notorious mess-makers! Here are some smart ways to prepare your home for sale and keep it spotless and tidy while it’s on the ma...

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Signs Your Home is Making You Sick

and What You Can Do About It

When is “home sweet home” not so sweet at all? When the things in your home leak toxic fumes and chemicals into your air, it can have serious health consequences for you and your family. That’s why it is so important to recognize these serious signs your home is making you sick and what you can do about it.

 

Your Sheets Are Making Your Skin Itchy

 

Did you know the average person sheds about half an ounce of d...

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When I started painting it was easy to pick a masking tape. There was tan type and it was not great. It is still being made and it is cheap. We never use it anymore because it can be hard to remove even after being applied just a few minutes. It does stick well sometimes but maybe a little too well for my taste. 

We use the Scotch Blue masking tape when we need to tape things off. Now that is said all blue masking tapes are not created equal. Not some prevent paint bleed using special adhesive...
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When you buy a new home you expect it to be finished nicely don't you? Sure you do. But a lot of builders including large ones don't care and build and finish them so cheaply by using cheap south of the border labor. Sure they can look great to the untrained eye but can be a mess. We see things most do not and we are very picky about how our finished jobs look. We recently repainted most of the walls in a home right after closing before the owners could move in. The builder would mot upgrade ...
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I was doing internet searches on a rainy day and found this PDF on paint failure by the US Forest Service. It applies to wood siding but 
 a lot of it applies to any siding. 
I have found that moisture in the main cause of paint failure!

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You have several options. I found this PDF while doing a web search. It is very informative and I urge you to look at it. Please do not put the old paint in the trash!  For further information on proper paint disposal.
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I just got finished removing wallpaper from a bedroom and painting the walls. What a job! People should only paint walls and leave the paper for books and newspapers
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We just finished another townhouse repaint. We would love to paint your townhouse, house, apartment or office. We are licensed and have been painting for many years. We have just recently started using Valspar paint and highly recommend it for interior walls. We have used it on the last three jobs and really like it and it is cheaper than Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams.
 
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Hi All,
Summer has just started and it is getting hot! So we hve decided to give some hot deals on painting now til July 30. If you buy the paint and have all items out of our way we will paint a 12x12 room or smaller for $75 this is for the walls only and one coat and you supply the paint.
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Hello Folks,
I got the free shed plans. Here is what you get. You get a 8x10 shed plan in PDF format and is 13 pages.Three of the thirteen are how to frame a wall. It is a very helpful plan. The second plan is a web page so the way I saved it was to email it to myself. I then highlighted the main part of it without the ad and coped it to a Word doc then saved it. There system was slow to email me the link to plans so give it a hour or so.
Got to run.


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You get 2 free shed plans if you give them you email address, not 14,000 plans. If you buy there plans package they say it is 14,000. Now one would give you 14,000 plans! When you sign up for any newsletter or e-book please use a special email account just for that. This way it will cut down on the spam to you main account.

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1. New drywall (Sheetrock is a brand name) needs to be primed with a primer like Firstcoat or one of the other Sheetrock primers. Most builders skip this step because of the cost. I have painted for years and we only used it for about a year or two because most people would not pay the cost. Then they would complain about the way the walls look.
2.  Another thing that can make the walls look bad is a poor drywall finisher. It has not been finished enough to sand but they do it anyway.
3. A person sandin...

Continue reading ...

Well it is is Spring time again.
From time to time all property owners will have to paint something be it inside or outside. Spring is a good time to paint the Exterior of a building. Painters love the Spring time like everyone else and now is a good time to get a pro to paint your house or Office. If you hate to paint you better get a pro and the job will be done faster and you will not be bothered. People either like to paint of they hate to paint there in not much middle ground here. I like...
Continue reading ...

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Tips for Keeping Your For-Sale Home Spotless with Kids Around

When you’re selling a home, more buyers mean more competition, higher offers, and a faster sale. Decluttering, cleaning, and staging are all crucial for attracting interested buyers. However, keeping a home show-ready can be significantly more difficult for parents; after all, kids are notorious mess-makers! Here are some smart ways to prepare your home for sale and keep it spotless and tidy while it’s on the ma...

Continue reading ...

 

Signs Your Home is Making You Sick

and What You Can Do About It

When is “home sweet home” not so sweet at all? When the things in your home leak toxic fumes and chemicals into your air, it can have serious health consequences for you and your family. That’s why it is so important to recognize these serious signs your home is making you sick and what you can do about it.

 

Your Sheets Are Making Your Skin Itchy

 

Did you know the average person sheds about half an ounce of d...

Continue reading ...

When I started painting it was easy to pick a masking tape. There was tan type and it was not great. It is still being made and it is cheap. We never use it anymore because it can be hard to remove even after being applied just a few minutes. It does stick well sometimes but maybe a little too well for my taste. 

We use the Scotch Blue masking tape when we need to tape things off. Now that is said all blue masking tapes are not created equal. Not some prevent paint bleed using special adhesive...
Continue reading ...

When you buy a new home you expect it to be finished nicely don't you? Sure you do. But a lot of builders including large ones don't care and build and finish them so cheaply by using cheap south of the border labor. Sure they can look great to the untrained eye but can be a mess. We see things most do not and we are very picky about how our finished jobs look. We recently repainted most of the walls in a home right after closing before the owners could move in. The builder would mot upgrade ...
Continue reading ...

I was doing internet searches on a rainy day and found this PDF on paint failure by the US Forest Service. It applies to wood siding but 
 a lot of it applies to any siding. 
I have found that moisture in the main cause of paint failure!

Continue reading ...

You have several options. I found this PDF while doing a web search. It is very informative and I urge you to look at it. Please do not put the old paint in the trash!  For further information on proper paint disposal.
Continue reading ...

I just got finished removing wallpaper from a bedroom and painting the walls. What a job! People should only paint walls and leave the paper for books and newspapers
Continue reading ...

We just finished another townhouse repaint. We would love to paint your townhouse, house, apartment or office. We are licensed and have been painting for many years. We have just recently started using Valspar paint and highly recommend it for interior walls. We have used it on the last three jobs and really like it and it is cheaper than Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams.
 
Continue reading ...

Hi All,
Summer has just started and it is getting hot! So we hve decided to give some hot deals on painting now til July 30. If you buy the paint and have all items out of our way we will paint a 12x12 room or smaller for $75 this is for the walls only and one coat and you supply the paint.
Continue reading ...

Hello Folks,
I got the free shed plans. Here is what you get. You get a 8x10 shed plan in PDF format and is 13 pages.Three of the thirteen are how to frame a wall. It is a very helpful plan. The second plan is a web page so the way I saved it was to email it to myself. I then highlighted the main part of it without the ad and coped it to a Word doc then saved it. There system was slow to email me the link to plans so give it a hour or so.
Got to run.


Continue reading ...

You get 2 free shed plans if you give them you email address, not 14,000 plans. If you buy there plans package they say it is 14,000. Now one would give you 14,000 plans! When you sign up for any newsletter or e-book please use a special email account just for that. This way it will cut down on the spam to you main account.

Continue reading ...

1. New drywall (Sheetrock is a brand name) needs to be primed with a primer like Firstcoat or one of the other Sheetrock primers. Most builders skip this step because of the cost. I have painted for years and we only used it for about a year or two because most people would not pay the cost. Then they would complain about the way the walls look.
2.  Another thing that can make the walls look bad is a poor drywall finisher. It has not been finished enough to sand but they do it anyway.
3. A person sandin...

Continue reading ...

Well it is is Spring time again.
From time to time all property owners will have to paint something be it inside or outside. Spring is a good time to paint the Exterior of a building. Painters love the Spring time like everyone else and now is a good time to get a pro to paint your house or Office. If you hate to paint you better get a pro and the job will be done faster and you will not be bothered. People either like to paint of they hate to paint there in not much middle ground here. I like...
Continue reading ...