Home Improvement Tips Vancouver BC
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How to hang a picture may not seem like a difficult question until you actually get started. There’s more to displaying the picture in an appealing way than just putting a nail in the wall and placing the picture on the wall. Actually, one of the first things I learned when I started hanging our … Read more
With winter approaching, our furnaces are about to start getting a work out. The good news is that furnaces generally work pretty well and for a good long time but only if they are properly maintained. The question is how to properly maintain them. Changing Your Furnace Filters The most frequent part of maintaining your … Read more
Properly securing your hot water tank is probably not something you’ve given much thought. I know we didn’t. Thankfully, we didn’t have to learn this lesson the hard way but a friend of ours did. Our friend had just moved several years ago out west. He did some of his own home repair, including replacing … Read more
One of the improvements I wanted to make to my home immediately was to replace some of the residential exterior doors. When we went through our first walk through the property with our realtor, I had decided if my family bought that house then those doors would have to go. And I stuck to my … Read more
My in-laws live in an old, but lovely, home that was built quite a long time before the 1970’s. Why is that important? Well, prior to that decade and the Energy Crisis that came along with it most families didn’t care about home insulation. That’s why my in-laws’ heating and cooling bills were always high … Read more