One of the most common Truth-in-Housing repair items is an unfilled opening in an electrical box or panelboard. If you walk through the garage or basement of just about any...Read More
It's not always cost effective to fix the problems that are causing the ice dams - the 'repairs' might outweigh the costs of controlling the ice dams, and even if...Read More
Along with all of the cold weather we've been having comes a bunch of non-functional plumbing vents all over Minnesota. The problem is that plumbing vents can get completely blocked...Read More
There are plenty of 'hack' methods of ice dam removal out there, so I decided to blog about them. The methods I'm going to discuss involve an axe, ice pick,...Read More
Re-insulating an existing home properly is a complicated task. While air sealing and adding insulation may solve one problem, it can also have several unintended negative consequences.Read More
Plumbing vents prevent traps from being siphoned. The common, improper analogy is to talk about dumping a soda bottle upside down. This analogy doesn't hold water because the top side...Read More
Old houses never had enough insulation at the eaves because they weren't constructed to allow for enough insulation here. Thankfully, there's a decent workaround for this on old homes.Read More
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