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Fascia Board Repair
4:21 Moisture is usually the culprit when it comes to exterior wood damage on fascia boards. Areas that get little or no direct sunlight are particularly vulnerable. The dampness often leads to rotting wood and another nasty nuisance - mildew. 5208 Added: 737 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 4868 | Comments: 0
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Home Fire Protection
4:53 If your house caught fire would you and everyone in your home know exactly where to go and what to do. If your answer is no then it is probably time you made a plan.9005 Added: 750 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 1612 | Comments: 0
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Build a Quick and Easy Work Bench
6:28 Even the most basic carpentry jobs are hard to do without having some kind of workbench. You can use a couple of sawhorses and a piece of plywood if you are in a pinch but if you are going to do a little more than sawing a couple of two by fours you might want something that is sturdier and safer. That is what we are going to do today. We are going to build a workbench in just a few hours using a very simple plan and some basic tools.9101 Added: 751 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 3102 | Comments: 0
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Quickflash
4:8 Every new home under construction provides dozens of places where moisture and air can penetrate the envelope of the home. Inventor Bill Gilleran has come up with a new design for weatherproof seals that takes an innovative approach to solving the problem.9502 Added: 751 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 1816 | Comments: 1
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Rainwater Collection
5:40 As a landscaper one of the most frequent problems I am asked to help solve involves water and right here we have all the signs of a severe water problem. What we need to do is get that water into that pipe. And while we are in the process of doing that we are going to install a rain barrel and catch that water a great resource and water our house plants with it.9704 Added: 751 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 942 | Comments: 0
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How to Attract Birds
4:42 When it comes to attracting birds to your yard water a birdbath is certainly a good idea. But there are really four things that birds need. The first is water the second food the third nesting sites. And this place has those in abundance. And the fourth thing they need is protection protection from the elements and protection from predators.9703 Added: 751 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 792 | Comments: 0
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Patio Water Feature
5:6 There is no doubt that water gardening is gaining in popularity in America and why not. Today I would like to show you a way to bring the sound of splashing water and the plants and the fish to your patio or deck even if you live in an apartment.9702 Added: 751 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 1484 | Comments: 0
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Controlling Mosquitoes
3:25 Ow Mosquitoes They spread Yellow Fever Malaria Dengue Fever and now West Nile Virus. Joe Sherinski shares four means of attack that he uses to fight mosquitoes. 9701 Added: 751 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 802 | Comments: 0
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Emergency Backup Lighting
2:51 What happens in your home when the power goes off. Well if you are like most people you probably stumble around in the dark searching for flashlights or candles. What you really need is a Added: 751 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 810 | Comments: 0
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Drywall Repair
3:4 We recently moved this toilet paper holder because as you can see this anchor had loosened and was not holding the fixture properly. So what we are going to do today is repair this area.9505 Added: 751 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 1612 | Comments: 0
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Motarless Brick Exterior
5:5 The owner of this house wants to upgrade his homes drive-up appeal. The existing vinyl exterior has obviously seen better days and the owner would like to replace the vinyl with the look of brick. The homeowner found a solution with a mortarless concrete brick veneer system called Novabrik. Novabrik is a self-supporting system that hangs on the wall.9301 Added: 751 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 1191 | Comments: 0
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Build a Concrete Walkway
6:44 Today we are in a really nice shaded front yard. The homeowners added a cobblestone-style pathway and tinted it red to compliment the pumice stones in their landscape. So what we are going to do today is extend this pathway to the other side of the yard.9103 Added: 751 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 1796 | Comments: 0
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MDF doors
4:49 All of the doors in our Country Retreat are sturdy and attractive soild-core doors from Tru-Stile. The doors are made of medium density fiberboard or MDF. Choosing MDF doors gave us an incredible number of styles and designs to choose from.9037 Added: 751 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 1021 | Comments: 0
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Fireplaces
4:2 When we designed the Country Retreat one thing we did not have to worry about was where to run the vents for the fireplaces. That is because all the fireplaces in this home are vent-free systems provided by Vanguard Heating Products.9036 Added: 751 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 925 | Comments: 0
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Standing Seam Roof
4:55 Our country Retreat sits in North Texas right in the heart of tornado alley so it is going to have to withstand a lifetime of hot summers thunderstorm heavy winds and hail. The roof will take most of that punishment so we are using metal roofing throughout. Stone coated steel is the primary cover and over the porches we are installing a standing seam steel roof from Custom-Bilt Metals.9034 Added: 752 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 935 | Comments: 0
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Wood Flooring
4:19 Now that we have installed the windows in our country retreat and the interior of the house is secure from the elements it is time to install our southern pine wood floor. We went with Southern Pine because it isdurable and it has a rustic look that is perfect for a country retreat.9033 Added: 752 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 1034 | Comments: 0
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HVAC
6:9 It is going to take 16 tons of air conditioning to heat and cool our 10000 square foot country retreat. With all that equipment and ductwork we need to make sure we are using the most energy efficient and cost-effective system possible. Our system was furnished by Lennox Industries and installed by Tempo Mechanical of Irving Texas.9030 Added: 752 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 792 | Comments: 0
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Trusses
4:30 Our 10000 square foot Country Retreat Project House sits atop a raised floor foundation whose primary structural element is an engineered system of open-web trusses made of Southern Pine lumber held together by metal connector plates. We also used open-web Southern Pine trusses to support the second floor.9026 Added: 752 days ago From: amcgrath Views: 881 | Comments: 0
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