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I keep looking at my stairs as I go down to work on finishing the basement, and am concerned that it is going to be very difficult to move things down into the basement with the current arrangement that they are in. I am worried that once I put the banister up it will be impossible to bring...

Does anyone have a gas fireplace in their house? We are looking into putting one in the basement as we are finishing it. We were thinking about putting in a ventless firelplace until we talked to the local fireplace salesmen who strongly discouraged us from going that route. Apparently they...

Does anybody know of a good orchard spray that is organic? I want to be the one eating the apples this year instead of letting them rot on the ground because the worms got to them when they were in the tree. My neighbor said to just go down to menards or the garden store and they should have a...

The Time has come to finish my basement. My wife went and got the permit yesterday and we are going to start framing tomorrow or Saturday. Today I was hoping to cut out the new egress windows under the old ones, but it is pouring outside, so its a good day to do a little more planning. Here...

I finally bought and installed the spice rack of my wife's dreams the other day. We have wanted to do this since we saw the nice magnetic containers, but that was back a few places ago and we were renting at the time. Spring cabinet cleaning, and the constant pain of not being able to find the...

I have a 12 year old Ranch style house, approx 24x44 with a beam down the middle of the basement to support the upstairs. I know that the roof is truss, making the exterior walls the only load bearing surfaces for it. so the beam with 3 posts spaced evenly underneath is only supporting the...

HI everyone, I'm ready to start working on my basement, I think, and have a few questions before I start so I found you all. I am a local truck driver, have done remodel jobs with a contractor before, been a millwright, and grew up a farmer. I just finished helping my father-in-law...