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Three Facts About Dew Point Temperature

Three Facts About Dew Point Temperature

The photo above is the bottom side of an air conditioner in a crawlspace on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Those droplets tell us something important: A property of the air in that crawlspace aligned with a property of that surface to convert water vapor into...

One of the Best Kitchen Remodeling Contractors in Cleveland, Ohio

One of the Best Kitchen Remodeling Contractors in Cleveland, Ohio

The kitchen is undoubtedly one of the most valuable spaces in any residence and is considered the heart of a home. A kitchen is where a family spends the most time together – cooking, dining, socializing, and developing relationships. A well-designed kitchen should be...

One of the Best Bathroom Remodeling Contractors in Cleveland, Ohio

One of the Best Bathroom Remodeling Contractors in Cleveland, Ohio

As one of the essential spaces in a home, the bathroom serves a dual purpose. The bathroom is a place for basic hygienic purposes for the homeowners, but it also serves as a place to relax, take a bath, and get ready for the day. The bathroom offers a haven for a busy...

How to Live with Your Remodeling Project

How to Live with Your Remodeling Project

Remodeling your home is uniquely different from building a new one. With remodeling, your home becomes the worksite. You live side by side with the project from start to finish. Once construction begins, you’ll probably long for simple pleasures like a dust-free home...

Funny Conference Calls Video, for those working from home.

Funny Conference Calls Video, for those working from home.

Conference calls can be excruciating. If you’re the first one in, you have to make the most awkward of small talk–yes, it sure is cold–and if you’re last then you’re a jerk. They’re like meetings, only worse. This video from comedians Tripp and Tyler perfectly...

Tips for Working From Home

Tips for Working From Home

The global spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is keeping people at home. Major conferences, including Mobile World Congress and Google I/O have been canceled to decrease the risk of infection. Some employers are encouraging or requiring people to work from...

How Home Building Is Changing for the First Time in 100 Years

How Home Building Is Changing for the First Time in 100 Years

Unlike the majority of industries that have changed over recent decades—mostly due to new technology—the processes for constructing a new home have not changed in more than 100 years—until now. Up until this point, residential builders have followed a standardized set...

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Little Facts. Though many competing claims exist, the most familiar story of the first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth Colony, in present-day Massachusetts, in 1621. More than 200 years later, in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln declared the final...

Ceiling Project? Don’t Default to Drywall

Ceiling Project? Don’t Default to Drywall

In the distant future, when archaeologists excavate houses from our era, they might conclude that our plain, cookie-cutter ceilings show a lack of imagination. And for the most part, they’d be right. They’d find popcorn ceilings. Boring acoustic tiles. And drywall,...