Category Archives: Building and Remodeling

Fixing your leaking faucet

With a little knowledge on doing some plumbing work will definitely help you in fixing minor leaking to your faucet without the need of hiring a professional plumber. Dripping water faucets will cost you more on your monthly water bills, for example, even a small leak can waste up to 3-gallons of water each day ...

Creating an affordable fireplace

A fireplace provides you with the aura of relaxation and comfort apart from giving you heat during the winter months. Installation of a fireplace needs extra and careful planning and nowadays, modern fireplace normally comes with a fire box and heat exchanger which is encased in an insulated sheet-metal housing for safety purposes. In other ...

Building a Door Threshold

A threshold is usually made from a solid piece of wood for reinforcing the frame of a door and it provides some kind of a weatherproof seal for the bottom of a door exterior. With this protection, it helps keeping the rain water, snow, as well as insects from entering your house. In other words, ...

Building a Door Jamb

In order to build a door jamb, you need to take into consideration several criteria such as the size of the entrance door, the size of its opening, the material and width used to build the entrance of the door jamb, and also the thickness of the wall. Below are some of the steps that ...

Remodeling your sink disposal

In order to remodel your kitchen sink, it is recommended that you include a quality garbage disposal system which is more energy-efficient that reduces on its maintenance and operating costs thus enabling you to reduce the production of trash and also keeping your kitchen clean and more convenient. Basically, there are two types of disposal ...

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