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Spring Home Maintenance to Protect Your Home

The best way to protect your home, which for most homeowners is your largest investment, is to consistently perform routine home maintenance. Next come updates like new counter tops, a bathroom remodel and improvements for energy efficiency like new windows or that side-by-side refrigerator you’ve been wanting for a while. In years past, it was [...]

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Windows: Repair, Replace, Other Choices?

Do you have a favorite room in the house? Curious if you also like spending time there at a certain time of day, and if your choice is based on sunlight streaming into the room to brighten your day? Windows are really one of today’s modern treasures as they let us visually enjoy natural sunlight [...]

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Winter Home Maintenance Checklist

Like bears who hibernate through the winter, we tend to spend more time inside our homes during the winter months. We hope you were diligent in preparing your home for winter with our earlier checklist as this month we’re focusing on things inside your house, things we often forget about with the hustle and bustle [...]

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Picking Great Kitchen Flooring

Kitchen remodeling was one of Remodeling Magazine’s top 10 remodeling projects for this year. Flooring was one of the kitchen features included in the remodeling project so we decided to review the best types of flooring for a kitchen where people tend to stand on their feet more, and there’s a greater chance of water and food getting spilled on the floor. We’ll review the 5 most popular types of kitchen flooring and identify the things to consider when researching flooring products for your kitchen or any room in your house. For smart shopping, start your research here …

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Interior Home Features & When to Replace Them

Most of your inside home features aren’t as critical as your roof, although a furnace that stops working in the winter or an air conditioner on a 90 degree day would be a problem. You can probably survive with a microwave if your stove stops working but what about your refrigerator? You’ll have to scramble [...]

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When to Replace Exterior Home Components?

Just like buying new tires for your car, key components of your home need to be replaced on a fairly predictable schedule. Unfortunately most home owners don’t plan for these expenses, and then get caught with a whooping bill for a new roof, new furnace or worse, multiple expenses in the same year. This article [...]

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How to Decide: Repair or Replace?

Home repairs are confusing when you’re not familiar with your choices – alternative fixtures, materials and whether you should repair or replace something. Today’s consumer economy drives us to constantly buy new things, throwing the old away. Products are designed to be disposable, i.e. toilets with plastic moving parts are designed to have a limited [...]

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Spring Home Maintenance Checklist

Spring is when you want to inspect your home for problems that occurred over the winter. It is also a good time to prepare for rainy periods by insuring that all water will run away from your house. If you do not have the time, the tools or the interest to complete your home maintenance [...]

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Winter Home Damage: Find, Clean & Repair

Spring is a beautiful time of year with new, fresh colors outdoors and the birds chirping to wake you up in the morning. For many of us it means we can get out in the garden and do what we love, working in the dirt and making things grow. Spring is about new things, new [...]

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My Handyman: We Have the Expertise & Tools You Needy

When you call Mr Handyman, it’s usually because you don’t have the expertise, the tools, the time or aren’t comfortable handling many home repair and maintenance chores. We know you recognize the importance of maintaining your home and handling repairs quickly to protect your home and family … and that’s why you call us. We [...]

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