It’s always hard when you sign leases on apartments that get sold while your contract is still active. You are six months into your annual lease and suddenly you are renting from a new company altogether, often one that is seeking to run the same business with lower operating costs to squeeze what little profit […]
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There are solutions for rust-resistant rebar wire in coastal construction applications
I moved to the ocean after years of living up north and subjecting myself to worsening winter freezes. Temperatures at negative thirty degrees fahrenheit are no joke, especially when the wind chill is even colder than that. I asked myself how much more of this I could subject myself to before losing my mind of […]
Some building materials have been outlawed over the years for various reasons
The corrosion can spread into areas where the epoxy coating remains intact, making it harder to diagnose the areas that need repair I understand that building materials are often outlawed after decades of widespread use, often growing out of a former misunderstanding of the safety and danger in long term human exposure. This happened in […]
I want to build a new footbridge leading into my small koi pond out back
At some point in the last few years, I lost any sort of restraint when it came to my backyard and the improvements and projects therein. It started with the metal-frame swimming pool and the large wooden deck that I built around it. I even built a water slide for my kids to use, which […]
My brother is stressed out because his company needs supplies but can’t get them
I’m extremely happy to see my brother excelling as a small business owner here in our home town. Back in our younger years, I worried about his reckless behavior and how it would eventually affect his future. He had a group of friends that would go out and drink away their weekends until slinking back […]
It’s great that our condo building was made with almost all America made materials
It wasn’t my plan to downsize after retiring, in fact I always dreamed about having a large house on a huge plot of land. I saw my kids growing older, moving away, having families of their own, and bringing their children back home to the property to play like they did when they were that […]
Newer coastal buildings are utilizing new kinds of rebar tie wire to prevent disasters
When my parents took me on a cross country road trip to visit my grandfather’s subtropical condominium, I had no idea what to expect. My sister and I had only been in our midwestern state and had been on short car road trips only. We were told that we would see the ocean for the […]
Why use different gauges of rebar wire for different projects?
I thought that I could simply build a loft in my high-ceiling living room with little to no help, but that was a mistaken assumption. I was told that I could get in a lot of trouble by doing any structural modifications without the proper permits and inspections to insure that the work is being […]