Inspecting at Paws veterinary office on Connecticut Avenue.

This window zip tool can be used as a last resort. Best first to push on the sides of the windows and push up or pull down to free the...

It's porous and reactive to acids and bases. In my case I spilled toilet bowl cleaner, a strong base, on my untreated marble, and it...

Take a tree that is beautiful all year and can survive the vagaries of the current Virginia climate and give it a flat top? This is a...

Piece from Channel 9 on preventing evictions, (click on image) yet this is only part of her work. Melanie is head of outreach for Christ...

When I inspect a house that seems to have unlicensed work in important systems like siding, plumbing and electrical work I note this in...

Cut these to fit the bottom of your oven. Make sure it doesn't block the open holes of your gas oven floor. The heating elements on...

The rule in real estate sales is: if it isn't broken, it doesn't need to be replaced. Well, this doesn't account for systems that have a...

What a wild time! Masks we can't breathe through and that fog our glasses. Thank Goodness we have work and are managing to stay healthy....

This is Bella, our quarantine grandchild proxy. She's full of affection and enthusiasm and rarely watches the news... Watch her cruise...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/when-old-windows-need-new-glazing-around-the-panes/2020/10/03/62e91c46-fdb2-11ea-9ceb-061d6...

This oak floor had been completely covered in dark urine spots. I thought it would have to be replaced. Not so, just the right finish...

Just did the second DC condo in a row that had a 4 inch shower berm on the floor. That's not much to save you from a wet bathroom floor....

This baby is called a universal remote control. It works for Chamberlain, Linear, Genie, Stanley and Wayne Dalton openers. I was...

See cracks all the time over those two-car garages on brick townhomes. Click on image or text to find LINTEL LIFT.

Just did a basement condo with a long hallway covered in fabric wallpaper. Client wanted to hang a bunch of photos. Putting a bunch of...

Click on above image for link. The far light is the new LED 3 watt bulb. Same color as the 50 watt nearby. These are not really...

Yes that's sweat on my bald pate and the shirt is soaked through for the second time that day!

So, you bought that perfect basement condo but you have a lot of concrete wall outside your unit. You can green it up with artificial...