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When it comes to wiring, these tools and products can save you time and money
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Legal debate; quality-control checklist; call for advice; woodpecker problems; more
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Nothing Easy About Rebuilding New Orleans
Robert Greer has been through more than a year of frustration, and it’s not over yet.
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Pricing handyman work
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How to write a practical business plan; different folks, different strokes
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Coastal insurance crisis; concrete-canoe race; toilet testing; wetlands ruling; more
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Prevent errors with a quality-control checklist
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Q: We're remodeling a 1930s vintage San Diego home and have to seismically reinforce its cripple walls with plywood, shear transfer plates, and hold-downs. Because all the framing is very dry and most of the cripples measure only 1 foot to 2 feet in lengt
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Haunted hospital renovation brings artists’ inspirationto Houston
Houston—Living in an abandoned, haunted hospital atop a pre-Civil War cemetery is something that, for most people, is the stuff nightmares are made of. But for the artists living in the renovated Jefferson Davis Hospital here and the residents in the surr
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Robert Van Cleef started Yankee Housewrights as a residential remodeling business in 1985 in Jamestown, Rhode Island. With a wealth of remodeling experience in his toolbox, Van Cleef tells us why certain new construction projects don't interest him and how preparing your business to handle two or...