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Home Exteriors: A How-to-Clean Guide

Your home’s exterior needs a bath. Just like kids and dogs, your house needs bathing too, and it will probably result in less of a mess than you get bathing kids and dogs. The first thing you want to do is see how dirty it is. To do this [...]

Home Exteriors: A How-to-Clean Guide2024-11-12T10:25:49-07:00

Home Exterior Improvements: Step by Step Instructions

Spring is almost here, and your home’s exterior is going to want some sprucing up. Spring cleaning isn’t only for your closets, you know. It’s for the outside too. Maintaining your home’s exterior isn’t just to keep it looking good, it’s to help your home last longer as well. [...]

Home Exterior Improvements: Step by Step Instructions2024-11-12T10:25:49-07:00

Get Your Gutters in Shape for Rainy Season

  It’s not too early to worry about how your gutters held up this winter. We may have a few more weeks in which a snowfall isn’t exactly unexpected (though it may be unwelcome), and right after that comes the busy season for your gutters. Gutters have it hard all winter, [...]

Get Your Gutters in Shape for Rainy Season2024-11-12T10:25:48-07:00

Heated Gutter Guards — Are They Any Good?

  No one wants ice dams encompassing their gutters in a frozen prison, wreaking havoc on the roof. Would heated gutter guards help? First, let’s make clear what an ice dam is. Ice dams form when snow on your roof begins to melt on the underside — the side closest to [...]

Heated Gutter Guards — Are They Any Good?2024-11-12T10:17:48-07:00

Don’t Miss the Salt Lake Tribune Home and Garden Festival

The Salt Lake Tribune Home and Garden Festival is right around the corner! So is spring, of course — they timed it that way. The annual home and garden show is a sign that warmer weather and sprouting daffodils are on their way. It’s not just plants that make [...]

Don’t Miss the Salt Lake Tribune Home and Garden Festival2024-11-12T10:17:47-07:00

Home Renovation Estimates Should Include Everything

If you’re embarking on a home renovation, you’re going to want an estimate. The cost of your project can vary thousands of dollars, depending on your choice of contractor and materials. Homeadvisor.com is a fun tool to use if you want a ballpark estimate of what you can expect [...]

Home Renovation Estimates Should Include Everything2024-11-12T10:17:46-07:00

The Truth about Hardie Siding

You know James Hardie siding is the best, but do you know why? The path to greatness began over 100 years ago. James Hardie was a Scottish immigrant to Australia, where he started an import business in the late 19th century. The company that bore his name was sold to his business partner in 1911, but the [...]

The Truth about Hardie Siding2024-11-12T10:17:46-07:00

Commercial Exteriors Can Make the Difference in Rental Rates

Your commercial building’s exterior is like an advertisement — what message do you want to send out to the community? Many school and other public building projects go to the lowest bidder, but if you’re in the business of making money, you’re probably going to want a façade that [...]

Commercial Exteriors Can Make the Difference in Rental Rates2024-11-12T10:17:45-07:00

Bay or Bow Windows Are the Perfect Elements of Style

What will make your home stand out? Bay or bow windows. Your home’s exterior is the face it shows the world. What’s inside counts too, but most people who walk or drive by your house won’t see the inside — they’ll only see what you show them. What are [...]

Bay or Bow Windows Are the Perfect Elements of Style2024-11-14T16:06:14-07:00

How to Boost Your Home’s Curb Appeal

Curb appeal — we all want it, but can we get it? Is it as simple as keeping your front walk swept and your grass cut? No. Not offending your neighbors isn’t quite the same as charming them. This will take effort. And money, but how much is up to you. Snow [...]

How to Boost Your Home’s Curb Appeal2025-07-25T16:27:14-06:00
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