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I was instantly worried because my brother never has brilliant ideas and I knew that the concrete wouldn’t hold with this sort of setup. My brother has always been the type of person to cut corners in the situations in life where it’s the least conducive. When he was trying to impress one of his […]

I told my parents that I wanted to be like my grandfather before he started his landscape development company. My mother’s father went to architecture school after being inspired by the gorgeous buildings he saw in Japan right after World War II when he was an Army Paratrooper. He went to the big state university […]

I was happy when my uncle said I could have whatever I wanted out of his old workshop. Since he was moving his equipment to a new facility, he needed to get rid of old metal fittings, piping, PVC, HVAC ducts, wood, wire, rebar, and other various building supplies. I learned in college how to […]

I wasn’t sure if college was the right decision for me. I considered being a car mechanic like my father, but he was always cynical about the future of his profession. He hated how car manufacturers were making their systems both digital and proprietary, making automobiles even harder to repair for both the mechanic and […]

This type of rebar tie wire is resistant to long term corrosion from both salt and moisture As a new bartender in my early 20s, I had no ambitions to own a business, let alone a beach bar. Back then I just wanted to make enough money to both pay my bills and always have […]

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 […]

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 […]

I hate working in the hot summer sun with hectic deadlines being imposed on us from upper management. Before I was given a chance to work in the building department, I was on the landscape crew and we would lay sod and plant flowers and shrubs in the yards of the new houses after the […]