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Frequently Asked Questions
  • Animal control in your yard
  • Deck preservation
  • Cleaning glass fireplace doors
  • Cleaning and painting stucco
  • Sub-flooring in your basement
  • A tool to secure your floor without lifting the carpet
  • Cedar chest refinishing
  • Painting aluminum clad windows
  • Toilet problems?
  • Crawlspace finishing
  • Removing moss from your asphalt shingles
  • Cleaning and painting your concrete floor
  • Sealing your garage floor
  • Removing marks from concrete floors
  • Removing water stains from hardwood floors
  • Refinishing oak cabinets
  • Re-sealing your tub and tub surround
  • Removing foam-backed carpet from a basement floor
  • Installing solar panels
  • Painting the basement
  • Installing a shower stall
  • Removing smelly water stains from carpet
  • Static electricity problems
  • Ceiling repair
  • Repairing linoleum
  • Sealing asphalt driveways
  • Replacing and updating your windows
  • Replacing carpet and linoleum with laminate flooring
  • Removing glue from ceilings
  • Refinishing your deck
  • Repairing a metal roof on a mobile hom
  • Condensation problems
  • Painting concrete flooring
  • Getting rid of mold caused by moisture
  • Refinishing a dresser
  • Humidity control
  • Putting pocket doors back on track
  • Laying ceramic tiles on a kitchen floor
  • Ventilation options for your roof
  • Treating your deck
  • Soundproofing between floors
  • Cleaning cherry wood cabinets
  • Repairing driveway cracks
  • Repairing cracks in a molded sink
  • Removing linoleum glue from a concrete floor
  • Caulking around the tub
  • Repairing drywall damage
  • Problems with paint in the bathroom
  • Air filtration
  • Deck refinishing
  • Refinishing oak cupboards
  • Condensation problems II
  • Placing ceramic tiles on a deck
  • Preparing cedar siding for paint
  • Repairing damage to a subfloor
  • Moss build-up
  • Condensation problems III
  • Covering up stained stucco ceiling
  • Removing unsightly oil stains from your driveway
  • Refinishing your vinyl deck
  • Preventing mold and mildew in your bathroom
  • Painting panelled walls
  • Replacing shingles
  • Installing ceramic tile on an uneven floor
  • Cleaning the patio roof
  • Cleaning a fireplace hearth
  • Advantages of a bathroom fan with a humidistat
  • Painting the kitchen cupboards
  • Removing wax from a coffee table
  • Removing a bathroom wall surround
  • Cleaning the inside logs of a log home
  • Exterior house painting
  • Cleaning railway ties for home yard use
  • Cutting angles on mouldings
  • Removing paint from wood trim
  • Geothermal heating
  • Snow accumulation on the roof
  • Staining a cedar fence
  • Removing stain from your deck
  • Water damage around the shower
  • Correcting deteriorating and eroding mortar from a brick house
  • Fixing wobbly legs on old chairs
  • Cleaning and painting brick work
  • Alieviating annoying sounds from the toilet
  • Removing the gloss finish from ceramic tiles
  • Re-roofing from cedar shingles to fiberglass shingles
  • Drying a rain soaked door
  • Correcting those nasty animal spots on the lawn
  • Repairing chipped concete on your garage floor
  • Cleaning unsightly black lines from roof joists
  • Building a no-maintenance deck
  • Humidity problems
  • Moisture underneath the floor
  • Removing rust stains from your concrete driveway
  • Cleaning the concrete around a pool
  • Preparing and painting cedar siding
  • Repairing water damaged wood from a window sill
  • Removing adhesive residual
  • Repairing and refinishing kitchen cupboards
  • Preventing moisture from damaging linoleum
  • Garage door maintenance
  • Replacing carpet with linoleum
  • Maintaining your central air conditioner
  • Hot water heater maintenance
  • Cleaning splashed on cement
  • Preparing fir siding for finishing
  • Stucco applications on a new home
  • Moisture control in the crawlspace
  • Getting rid of the smoke smell from your fireplace
  • Repairing and refinishing a wood window damaged by moisture
  • Metal roofing
  • Repairing a burned countertop
  • Preparing fireplace brick for painting
  • Eliminating algae build-up from indoor/outdoor carpet
  • Servicing the chimney/furnace replacement
  • Drainage problems
  • Installing linoleum over top of ceramic tile
  • Removing wax from quarry tile
  • Painting the bathroom
  • Repairing damage to drywall
  • Quieting a noisy toilet vent pipe
  • Preparing a log home for stain
  • Odor problems in the house resulting from high humidity
  • Cleaning algae marks on a shingled roof
  • Preparing unsightly areas in your house for painting
  • Preparing cracked plaster for painting
  • Preparing a garage door for painting
  • Device for monitoring water leaks
  • Preparing kitchen cabinets for painting and glazing
  • Sealing a concrete floor
  • Quieting noisy floor joists
  • Safely walking on a cedar shake roof
  • Adding insulation and vinyl siding to existing cedar siding
  • Adding vinyl to a cement floor
  • Plumbing problems
  • Replacement windows
  • Refinishing your tub
  • Humidity problems in the basement
  • Painting eavestrough, soffits and fascia
  • Painting popcorn stipple ceilings
  • Replacing flooring with plastic laminate or wood plastic laminate
  • Servicing sliding glass door wheels
  • Eliminating odors from your sink garberator
  • Upgrading insulation
  • Replacing the skirting on a mobile home
  • Increasing air supply into your home
  • Applying a vapour barrier to the framing on the outside walls
  • Basement refinishing
  • Preparing and refinishing a heavy birch door
  • Ventilation problems in the bedrooms
  • Refinishing the basement
  • Preparing a bedroom for repainting
  • Projects to do with your cordless drill
  • Reparing a seam on a vinyl floor
  • Shower renovations
  • The right finish for your baby cradle
  • Purchasing a thermostat
  • Restoring original hardwood floors that have been sanded to their limit
  • Hardwood floors vs. carpet for dust control
  • Transfering wood flooring to another house
  • Painting over wall panelling/Cleaning cement before relaying carpet
  • Problems with rodents living in your soffits
  • Repairing a leaking crawl space wall
  • Quieting a noisy heat pump compressor
  • Removing and replacing the kitchen carpet
  • Removing tar from vinyl siding
  • Cleaning spotted linoleum caused by condensation
  • Maintaining pine floors
  • Cleaning exterior windows
  • Refinishing a bathtub
  • Garage concrete floor repair
  • Refinishing wall panelling
  • Placing vapour barrier in the crawl space
  • Preparing the basement floor for parquet wood flooring
  • Removing paint from fireplace bricks
  • Do not cover your attic vent turbine for the winter
  • Insulation as a sound barrier
  • Removing marks from your coffee table
  • Installing a hardwood floor in the kitchen
  • Condensation problems on your windows
  • Cleaning the glass on your gas fireplace
  • Buying a natural gas furnace
  • Cleaning old enameled and porcelain tubs
  • Removing subfloor and preparing to lay new flooring
  • Replacing a bathroom fan
  • Cleaning and finishing wood flooring/Cleaning tiles
  • Dealing with condensation problems
  • Installing ceramic tile on vinyl floor
  • Removing grease from wood
  • Laminate flooring or carpet?
  • Paint removal
  • Fireplace finishing
  • Sweating pipes
  • Soundproofing
  • Glueing Arborite to Arborite
  • Window Replacement
  • Fire retardent cedar roof
  • Tile on drywall
  • Leaking windows
  • Cork Flooring
  • Sewage smell
  • Wheezing furnace
  • Window condensation
  • Thumping faucet
  • Forced Air Filter
  • Retiling
  • Yellowed door frame
  • Filling concrete cracks
  • Geothermal heating costs
  • Urethane
  • Refinishing cedar
  • Hardest varnish
  • Stained white porcelain
  • SM Styrafoam
  • Fly problem
  • Ventilation requirements for a crawl space
  • I want to insulate the floor of the sunroom and replace the carpet
  • Would power washing be safe or should I go with the more time-consuming gentle approach?
  • Is it possible to Stain brick?
  • Hiring a Contractor
  • Should I Insulate Our Cabin?
  • Using Penetrol on a Pine Door
  • Painting a Metal Front Door
  • Moisture and Condensation Problems
  • Making a Small Hole Larger
  • Moss on Roof
  • Recover that Sundeck
  • Laying a Laminate Floor Over an Uneven Wood Floor
  • Garage Floor - Low Spots
  • Installing Ceramic Floor Tile Over Concrete
  • Noisy Hot Water Tank
  • The fan on our furnace runs all the time
  • Paint will not stick to caulking!
  • Cracks in the ceiling
  • Should I treat my shake roof?
  • How do I repair damaged 2x4s?
  • Preparing a bath area for ceramic tile
  • Paint problems
  • Can I add soundproofing qualities with my new hardwood floor?
  • I have dried glue and damage on a plaster wall.
  • Disposal of Sawdust
  • Scuffed Up Linoleum Floor
  • Can you hook the exhaust from one bathroom fan into another and share a common vent outside?
  • Recent Shower Stall Installation - bubbling and cracks, what went wrong?
  • What underlay should I use over concrete?
  • I am replacing my furnace, are some of the available options necessary?
  • Wet Basement
  • Weeping Fireplace with Mushrooms
  • I would like to lighten the finish on my kitchen cabinets
  • Ice is damaging my gutters!
  • Hockey player damages garage doors
  • What do you think about Aluminum Interlocking Roofing?
  • Noisy Bathroom Drain
  • Goose Poop on the Roof!
  • Can I place ceramic tile over my existing kitchen countertop?
  • How to remove dried contact cement
  • Should we use prehung doors?
  • Can you seal treated lumber with a stain?
  • Roofing Warranty Problem
  • Power washing a condo complex
  • Shake Roof Replacement
  • Can I fill the gaps in a tongue and groove pine floor?
  • Our toilet bowl is dry! Why?
  • Old stucco needs a face lift
  • Cold Kitchen Addition
  • Roof/Attic Ventilation
  • Stale Air from the Furnace
  • Info on Heat Recovery Ventilators (HRVs)
  • Driveway Sealing
  • Stinky well water and toilet stains
  • Stains on my Counter Top
  • I Have Tree Needles All Over My Cedar Shake Roof
  • Black Marks Along the Edge of My Carpet
  • Radiant Heat and an HRV plus .... Sealing a Concrete Slab
  • Help..... How Can I Keep Grout in my Tile Floor?

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