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		<title>Biography of Income Property&#8217;s Scott McGillivray</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian Scott McGillivray and his show Income Property has been showing on HGTV (Home &#38; Garden Television) for several years now and he&#8217;s managed to build quite a following of real estate investors, do-it-yourself home improvement enthusiasts and regular homeowners who are looking to get a little cash out of their own home. Scott&#8217;s down-to-earth approach, wide breadth of knowledge and &#8220;All American&#8221; good looks make him one of the most popular current home renovation hosts on TV, right next to fellow Canadian Handyman Mike Holmes. Scott McGillivray from HGTV&#8217;s Income Property. Scott McGillivray Biography Scott McGillivray was born in Toronto, Canada on April 7, 1978. Scott is a trained carpenter who accidentally fell into the business of being a landlord when he was, in his own words, a &#8220;broke university student.&#8221; Scott was a Marketing Management student (he graduated with honors) at the University of Guelph when he and another student, Michael Sarracini, were paired together in a project to help homeowners make more money with their homes and though their personalities initially clashed they both were determined to be the best in their class and began working together. It was around that time that they started thinking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Framing A Room With Metal Studs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my basement refinishing project I had the good fortune of already having one room partially framed out from a previous owner. For that room I simply installed drywall over the existing wood framing and paneling. But for the smaller room which would become an office, I only had cold cinder block walls and I needed to frame out most of the room. I chose to use metal studs for framing the room (specifically, steel studs) because I needed something that was fast and relatively easy for a single person without much framing experience to handle. The basement room before framing. Metal studs are different from wood studs in a variety of ways, though the general idea is the same: the frame of the room serves as a sort of skeleton for a room, giving it form and strength. If you&#8217;ve done a lot of framing with wood then the basic principals are the same, but you might not feel as though steel framing is really much less work, especially since you probably have some expertise with wood. For the beginner framer who doesn&#8217;t have the benefit of experience then steel studs can be a good starting point. There are, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning A Basement Remodel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/?p=979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My basement finishing project is almost done! I took part of my unfinished basement and updated the partially finished room and completely framed out and finished another small room. I have lots of photos and lots of different ideas I want to get down about my experience with finishing my basement myself. I&#8217;ve made some mistakes and learned some valuable lessons along the way. Overall, my basement finishing project was a success and I mostly followed my initial basement remodeling plan. I&#8217;m already thinking about expanding the finished area in my basement further in the upcoming years. There are some affordable and detailed basement remodeling and idea books available these days. Before you refinish your basement, though, you really should sit down and plan the project out as much as you can. A lot of the planning you can do on your own, but you may also want to check out some of the excellent basement remodeling and idea books that are now available. Whether you&#8217;re doing it yourself or having someone else come in and do it, there are still lots of decisions you&#8217;re going to have to make on your own before a single wall is framed or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Your Own Removable Wall Panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when you&#8217;re working on a home improvement project you need to throw away the rules and get a little creative. I recently had to do this when I was refinishing my basement and had to frame out a room while still allowing easy access to a drain clean out. I could have just slapped up a closet door, but that would have looked a little weird in the middle of a wall in my basement office, so I decided to try something a little more fun: I made a removable drywall panel and disguised it as a permanent wall. The removable wall panel will cover this basement plumbing. I had a few different options when I was planning out the framing of my basement office. I originally thought about just framing the wall straight all the way across the foundation wall and then putting some sort of cabinet over the drain pipe, but due to the way the drain branched up into the floor above it, I was actually unable to run the framing along the top of the joists all the way along the room. So I opted for the next best thing: a straight wall with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case of the Mysterious Basement Leak</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was while I was in the middle of framing and insulating my basement that I first found the mysterious leak in my basement. One sunny day I was happily putting up steel framing and when I returned the next rainy day I found a pie-plate sized puddle forming right where the basement foundation and cinder block walls met. My basement has always been bone dry until I found this leak, which suddenly had me wondering if I should even bother to refinish my basement because anything I did down there might be subject to flooding or water damage. This had been a particularly wet season with a lot of melting snow followed by a lot of rain, so I wasn&#8217;t sure if it was just something I had never experienced or if this was a genuinely new problem that wasn&#8217;t there before. Before I became too worked up I decided to see if I could simply figure out what was going on. I lined up my suspects and methodically examined each one. Suspect#1 &#8211; A Leak In The Basement Foundation: I didn&#8217;t actually see any sort of a crack or split between the wall and floor but we had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Insulate A Basement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to a surefire way to start an argument between 10 home remodeling expert, ask them &#8220;What&#8217;s the best way to insulate a basement?&#8221; You will almost definitely get 10 different answers with 10 different reasons for why their answer is correct. Most basement remodeling books offer many different insulation methods. To be fair, there really is no one 100% correct way to insulate a basement. There are different types of basements, different underground situations, different building codes and a number of other factors which vary from state to state, town to town and even house to house. Additionally, there are now different insulation technologies and techniques available than there were just ten years ago, so the process of insulating a basement is constantly evolving and changing as new tools and products come to market. The best insulation for a basement wall would actually begin on the outside, but that&#8217;s something that&#8217;s still not done as commonly as it could be. Foam board insulation properly installed against the outside of a basement wall can prevent water from entering and provide an adequate insulation against colder temperatures. Reasons For Insulating A Basement This seems pretty obvious at first. Insulation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Get Rid of a Drywall Tape Bubble</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After refinishing most of the drywall in my basement remodeling project I decided to try to tackle two little areas of drywall where my drywall tape had &#8220;bubbled up&#8221;. There was actually a layer or two of dried joint compound over these two spots, but they had popped out from the wall a little bit and when I pushed them in with my finger they flexed a teeny bit, which mean that my drywall tape had not adhered to the joint compound beneath it. Bubbles can appear in your wall when the drywall tape doesn&#8217;t stick properly. Obviously having drywall bubbles in the wall makes it almost impossible to paint well because if the bubbles flex the paint could crack and flake off after it has dried. And, besides, having these weird bulges in my wall was not exactly attractive. So I had to somehow get rid of the drywall tape bubbles that were on my wall. Both of my bubbles were in different parts of the room and both were about 5 inches long. Drywall bubbles are usually caused by either not applying your tape to a wet enough joint compound or by squeezing out so much joint compound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Finish Drywall With Joint Compound</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After I had put up the drywall in my basement refinishing project it was time for me to finish my walls with joint compound and tape and make them nice and smooth. I&#8217;ll be the first to admit that I wasn&#8217;t an expert in joint compound when I started this, and I&#8217;m certainly no professional now, but I have learned a few things as I&#8217;ve gone over my walls again and again. The goal of finishing drywall is to make your walls smooth and to make any bump or dip so gradual that it is virtually unnoticeable. First, it&#8217;s important to remember our final goal: to even out and smooth the walls out as much as possible before applying our first coat of primer and eventually paint. You&#8217;re going to do most of the smoothing with a substance called joint compound or vinyl spackling or drywall compound or just &#8220;mud&#8221; but it all refers to the same stuff: it&#8217;s a wet substance that&#8217;s spread on walls and dries hard, pretty much like plaster might. This is not a difficult job, but it takes some patience and time. Finishing walls is definitely an art form more than a science. It&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Hang Drywall &#8211; A Beginner&#8217;s Guide</title>
		<link>http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-hang-drywall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many home improvement projects, hanging drywall is one half art, one half science and one half luck. I learned this first-hand as I completed hanging the drywall in my first real full room renovation. I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I&#8217;m refinishing a room in my basement that was framed out and paneled years ago. It even has a permanent drywall popcorn ceiling, which I may eventually remove, but that will come at a later time. To remodel this room I decided the 70&#8242;s were over and I wanted to get rid of the paneling. My first idea was to rip down all the paneling and then put up drywall in it&#8217;s place. But I didn&#8217;t really want to spend all the time cutting up large paneling pieces, so my next idea was to paint the paneling a lighter color. I quickly shelved that idea when I realized that paint doesn&#8217;t stick to paneling very well and, really, it just ended up looking like painted paneling. So I went back to drywall, but decided to simply attach the drywall right over the paneling. The framing was in good condition, the paneling was in good condition, so everything was good for moving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Remove Carpet Tack Strips and Staples</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a home that&#8217;s a few decades old and has had multiple owners then there&#8217;s a pretty good chance that you have at least one or two rooms that have hardwood floors that have been covered with wall-to-wall carpeting by previous owners trying to save some money on flooring costs. Wall-to-wall carpets are also used a lot in basements to warm up the cold cement floor. As part of my ongoing basement remodeling project I had to remove the tack strips and carpet staples from the one semi-finished room I&#8217;m working on. If you&#8217;ve ever tried or had to remove wall-to-wall carpeting as part of any home renovation project you know some of the horrors and tediousness of removing carpet tack strips and staples from floors. Just use a small crowbar to pry most tack strips from the floor. When wall-to-wall carpet is installed it is usually held in place with wooden strips of thick tacks along the edges of most rooms. These pieces of wood are called &#8220;tack strips&#8221; because they are essentially rows of hundreds of little tacks sticking straight up. Carpet is installed by pushing and pulling the carpet over these little tacks which then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basement and Garage Organization Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first tasks I had to undertake in my ongoing basement remodeling project was an organizational one: in essence I had to organize all the junk and boxes in my basement simply to reclaim enough space to be able to work on the remodeling. There are lots of basement organization guides and tips online, but I found that most of them were unrealistic or too simple in their approach to tacking a large basement or garage clean up. It&#8217;s important to remember that basements, attics, garages and other storage areas that holding things that you once used, once thought to be important, once purchased or were given to you. The &#8220;things&#8221; in a basement, attic and garage had some sort of value to someone at one point. The cleaning and organizing of a basement is sometimes as much an emotional cleansing and organization as it is a physical cleaning out. Basement Organization: Identify and Categorize This is the most basic part of organizing any room of your house, including the basement. You&#8217;ll want to assess how much stuff you have, what kind of stuff it is and, generally, what you want to do with it. You&#8217;re not worried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Air Duct Cleaning and Is It Worth It?</title>
		<link>http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/an-air-duct-cleaning-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 10:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About this time every year my mailbox starts filling up with ads for air duct cleaning services that come into your home and actually vacuum out all the accumulated dust and debris (and even mold) that builds up the metal ducts of any sort of forced air heating or air conditioner system. These companies usually pull up to your house in vans that have tremendous vacuum cleaning units in them. I&#8217;ve watched them as they run large hoses (more like giant tubes) into a home and basically suck out all the dust and debris from the vents of a home. Some actually scrub the insides of the ducts, but mold isn&#8217;t a big problem in my part of the country, so most of the ones around me seem to offer just the vacuuming service. I didn&#8217;t want to have my home&#8217;s air ducts cleaned but my wife saw a coupon in one of our local papers that advertised a &#8220;$39.95&#8243; special that included a cleaning of 10 vents and 1 intake trunk of a forced air heating or AC system. I was skeptical, but our house is over 50 years old and the vents had never been properly vacuumed out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Replace and Install Wall Lights</title>
		<link>http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-replace-and-install-wall-lights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of home improvement projects around my main bathroom lately and most of the work has been DIY plumbing projects, but this time I thought I&#8217;d show you how I took out an old dated bathroom light and installed a new light fixture on the wall. The process is relatively simple, but because this is an electrical project I have to warn you to only do this if you&#8217;re comfortable working with electrical things. Installing a wall light is just like any other electrical DIY project: you could really get hurt or even killed if you&#8217;re not careful. Ugly. You don&#8217;t see a difference between the blue and purple bulbs when it is on. Our old light fixture on our bathroom wall was dated and ugly and was clearly something that was installed as a cheap &#8220;temporary&#8221; solution for lighting and happened to stay there for a number of years. I found a good deal on generic but much more contemporary looking bathroom light fixture at one of those big box warehouse stores and just had to buy it. I set aside an hour last weekend and put up the new fixture without any real problems. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Basement Remodeling Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My big home improvement project for this year will be the start of a large basement remodeling project. I&#8217;m going to start with a partially finished room we already have in the basement and then slowly expand the finishing to other parts of my basement that are currently concrete and cinder blocks. I&#8217;ve never done any sort of interior home improvement project like this, so it should be interesting to see and learn a lot as I go along. The partially finished room in my basement has some potential. A lot of people see a basement remodeling project as the ultimate do-it-yourself home improvement project because these sort of remodels take a lot of different skills and time, but almost every aspect of the job can be completed by an amateur handyman if needed. Building an addition on to a house often requires a contractor and heavy equipment, but taking an existing unfinished interior space like a basement (or attic) and turning it into a finished space simply takes some tools and skills with framing, drywall, flooring and sometimes electrical and plumbing systems. I&#8217;m no different. My wife and I bought our home largely because of the additional living space [...]]]></description>
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