When it comes to plumbing repairs, valves are your friend. If you have a valve under the toilet, for instance, you don’t have to find the main shut-off, which is often in the deep recesses of a crawlspace. Instead, you can turn off the water supply to the toilet, swap out the fixture, and turn [...] Read More

I spent the last few days working in Mt. Juliet at a beautiful new home. Most of the time, new homes are marketed with lots of space, but not necessarily many upgrades inside. These clients have been working hard to make their newer home a showplace with lots of custom trim, tile and paint colors. [...] Read More

My garage conversion project is winding down to the final details. The room has a cement floor (remember this post?). All along, the plan was to carpet the entire room, however, as we got close to finishing, the homeowner asked me if I’d lay some tile at the backdoor. Tile at doorways is a great [...] Read More

I got to spend the morning in a crawlspace repairing a small amount of rotted sill plate. A sill plate is the piece of lumber than runs horizontally along the top of a foundation that the floor joists rest on. In this case a bathroom leak years ago had caused the wood to rot in [...] Read More

Trim is usually a highlight of a project, mainly because I’m finally doing something that people will see and enjoy, as opposed to framing which is important but hidden in the walls. The room that used to be an old garage is becoming a nice office or bedroom, looking nothing like its former self. One [...] Read More