When you buy a car it comes with an owners manual. Unfortunately very few builders provide an owners manual for the homes they build. It’s too difficult. A builder might buy 90% of the materials for a house from the local building supply company but they’re a distributor handling products from 1,000s of manufacturers. No [...]
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Home Ownership: Who’s On Your Team?
My plumber taught me an important lesson years ago, before I started my handyman business. My family was in the middle of a huge remodeling project on our 100 year Victorian home. A neighbor stopped by and asked him to look at her heating system. He went over to her home and gave his opinion [...]
Basement Flooding & Cleaning Up
Most home owners assume their home is water tight, until the water gets in. If your home is normally dry, the water is coming in due to water rising in the ground surrounding your home, below the basement floor and in the soil pressing against your foundation walls. This water is under hydrostatic pressure and [...]
Home Emergencies: Shutting the Water Off
Water emergencies are the number problem home owners have to deal with. Whether water is coming in from outside, or there’s a plumbing leak inside your home … you want to handle water problems quickly. The reason? Water or high levels of moisture can continue to cause damage, often hidden damage, which increases the risk [...]
Product Alert: Chinese Made Drywall
After reading about this drywall problem a second time, I decided it was time to alert you to potential problems with drywall manufactured in China. The problems being reported, alledged to have high levels of sulfur, include:
Sulfur based gases which smell like rotten eggs.
Piping and wiring corroded after just a few years, causing electronics and [...]
Dave Provost
Bucks County Handyman
(215) 710-0446
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Serving these towns in Bucks county
Buckingham, Carversville, Danboro, Doylestown, Feasterville Trevose, Forest Grove, Fountainville, Furlong, Gardenville, Holicong, Holland, Jamison, Lahaska, Langhorne, Langhorne Manor, Lumberville, Mechanicsville, Morrisville, New Hope, Newtown, Penns Park, Pipersville, Plumsteadville, Point Pleasant, Richboro, Solebury, Southhampton, Upper Makefield, Warminster, Warrington, Washington Crossing, Woodbourne, Wrightstown, Wycombe, Yardley