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How To Insulate A Basement

Filed under: Basement Remodeling, Resources - 05 Feb 2010

If you want to a surefire way to start an argument between 10 home remodelling expert, ask them “What’s the best way to insulate a basement?” You will almost definitely get 10 different answers with 10 different reasons for why that answer is correct.

Basement remodeling books offer a number of different insulation methods.

Most basement remodeling books offer many different insulation methods.To be fair, there really is no one 100% correct …

Large Home Improvement Book Recall

Filed under: Resources - 08 Jan 2010

It’s not often that you have a book, much less a large set of home improvement books, that are voluntarily recalled.

Covers of 9 recalled Home Improvement books.Yet, that’s exactly what’s happened to about 951,000 different home improvement books published by Oxmoor House, Inc., a publishing company that specializes in informative “lifestyle” books.

Oxmoor House, Inc. and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are working together on the home improvement book recall. The nine books in question are all home improvement in nature and contain errors in electrical diagrams and wiring instructions that, if …

Gift Ideas for the Home Improvement Enthusiast

Filed under: New Home Products, Resources - 12 Dec 2009

Trying to find gifts for the man or woman who enjoys doing a lot of his or her own home improvement projects can be challenging. Home improvement can be a very creative endeavor at times (painting, landscaping, planning your next project) and also very exacting and mechanical in nature (electrical work, plumbing, refinishing furniture). There is a right way and a wrong way to do things, but between those two extremes there is often a lot of room for creativity. So what sort of gifts can you buy for the person who’s part artist and part scientist …

Black Friday Sales on Christmas Decorations and Lights

Filed under: New Home Products, Resources - 26 Nov 2009

A lot of people use the days after Thanksgiving as the time to pick up some new holiday decorations and put up their Christmas lights. The weather isn’t too cold yet and a lot people have “Black Friday” off, and the stores are obviously mobbed, so it’s a good time to shop online or put up some decorations around your home.


Christmas Lights, Etc. is having a couple different sale specials on Black Friday. They’re …

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