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Business
The New Metal Roof Is Why The Old Gutters Cannot Keep Up
A florist two blocks off Hardy Street put a standing-seam metal roof on her 1,900 square foot cottage storefront one…
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Home Improvement
A Waiting Room Fly Problem Needs More Than A Can Of Spray
The office manager at a Ft Myers family practice kept a can of wasp spray in the same drawer as…
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Business
The Fir Trees Decide What a Solar Quote Is Worth
The quote lands by email on a Tuesday afternoon: two pages, a tidy rendering of the roof traced off satellite…
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Business
Reading A Sewer Camera Report Without Taking The Quote On Faith
A sewer camera report tells you what is wrong with the pipe. It does not tell you what has to…
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Home Improvement
One Downpour Traced A Basement Backup Back To The Lateral
The family got home from a cookout on a Saturday night in late August and smelled the basement from the…
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Home Improvement
Clay Soil Decides A Septic System Before House Plans Do
The footings are in on four acres of inherited pasture outside Lone Jack, the framing lumber is stacked under a…
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Home Improvement
The Joints You Made A Decade Ago Are Talking Now
A joint that has held for ten years is not proof the work was right. Weekend plumbing gets tested slowly,…
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Home Improvement
Nine Door Knockers In Ten Days And One Roof
The fastest way to sort nine strangers on your porch is to work out which of them existed before the…
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Business
A Backup Window Unit Is Not A Cooling Plan For Thirty Kennels
The backup plan I hear most often from kennel operators is not a plan at all. Two window units and…
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Home Improvement
Getting Cooling Into An Upstairs Bedroom Before The Next Heat Stretch
The fix for an upstairs bedroom reading 88 degrees at ten at night is not a third window unit. It…
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