Bathtub Refinishing
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Bathtub Refinishing and other money-saving bathroom repairs and remodeling are available from Lakeshore Glazing, LLC. We serve a large service area including Manitowoc county, Brown county, Kewanee county, Sheboygan county, Calumet county, Door County up to Sturgeon Bay county, and Eastern Fond du Lac county, in Northeast and East Central Wisconsin.
ADA Conversions
Our ADA Approved, bathtub access conversions are, fast, affordable, and reversible! Installs in less than one day and cures overnight.
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About Home Repair
06/28/2009
Study Just In: Women Hammer Nails Better Than Men (in the light)
OK, I'm blogging this just for the sheer bizarre value of the study. Livescience.com reports that a study out of University of Massachusetts at Amherst has allegedly determined that women were about 10 percent more accurate than men at hitting a nail with a hammer in the light. Men were about 25 percent more accurate than women at hitting a nail in the dark. Now since I don't know of much construction or home repair that goes on in the dark, I'm not sure how valuable a skill hitting a nail in the dark really is.
So to all my male compatriots, I say, Practice Boys! Read up on the tutorial How to Use a Hammer and let's learn how to use these things in the daylight!
06/21/2009
Vinyl Siding Repair
Vinyl siding has limitations. It is prone to impact damage (the photo shows damage due to a hail storm), melts when exposed to extreme heat and becomes increasingly brittle as it gets cold. But even in the summer if a baseball or golf ball hits it, your vinyl siding can break or crack.
Then what? With colors and textures often not found in nature, matching existing vinyl siding can be hard to achieve. And without knowledge of how to separate the strips of siding, you'll never get them apart.
Well, don't worry. I'll show you how to repair damaged vinyl siding for under $10 (if you have spare siding material). And I'll also let you know where you can find discontinued siding styles and colors so that repair looks great!
06/11/2009
How to Pick a Contractor: Getting Bids and Evaluating an Estimate
Sometimes you come upon a home repair project that you decide to tackle with a checkbook instead of a hammer. You may decide to hire a professional contractor for a major roofing project or exterior home painting or any number of possible projects.
Getting Contractor Bids and Evaluating an Estimate is something you need to know how to do to protect yourself and end up with a successful project. It's also not fair to a good contractor who does a detailed proposal and includes a full scope of work, to have their price compared to a fly-by-night company who throws a low-ball number out there just to get your business.
Most contractors are hard working and knowledgeable pros who want to do a good job and an informed consumer is often their best customer. So read Getting Contractor Bids and Evaluating an Estimate and learn how to scope a project, understand what to look for in the bids of different contractors like painters, roofers, plumbers, etc. You'll learn that what is "Excluded" in a bid is often as important as what is "Included" in the proposal. And don't forget to read about how to evaluate price, payment terms and what it means if your contractor is proposing "incentives" to you.
With a little preparation you'll be able to communicate much more successfully with your contractor, and you'll both enjoy the process.
