4 Easy Tips To Get Your House Ready for Fall

4 Easy Tips To Get Your House Ready for Fall

Now that the kids are back at school do you find yourself looking around your house and thinking “Boy it’s been a long summer, I guess it’s time to clean up after our lovely children? Let’s see, there is extra dirty laundry t I can do, toys left out everywhere and...
What is Heat Stress?

What is Heat Stress?

HEAT STRESS 101 Hydration plays an important role in worker safety and productivity. Companies, safety directors, and employees all want to work safely, perform productively and return to work the next day. And everyone wants to avoid accidents and injury at all...
Wood Restoration: It’s Knot for Amateurs

Wood Restoration: It’s Knot for Amateurs

Few items added to the exterior of the home bring more pleasure as well as pain as does a wood deck or fence.  They add warmth, security and a comfortable space for relaxation.  There is something authentic about a real, wood deck made of cedar, pine or redwood that...
The Best Way to Remove Bugs on Your Trucks

The Best Way to Remove Bugs on Your Trucks

I Hate Bugs, How About You? Birds love bugs, flowers love bugs, truck drivers hate bugs and the people that wash trucks hate bugs even more. They die in a splatter, the first one usually in a driver’s direct line of sight.  Soon the swarms follow, replacing shiny...
5 Graduation Party Hacks

5 Graduation Party Hacks

School’s Out For Summer! When Alice Cooper released “Schools Out” in 1972 it immediately became the last day of school anthem for kids across the U.S. and still remains one those quintessential songs of summer.  And although the kids have summer on their minds, their...
It’s Flood Season; Are You Prepared?

It’s Flood Season; Are You Prepared?

It would be an understatement to say that so far this year weather incidents including tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes has been one for the record books. The good news is, depending on where you live the likelihood of you experiencing one of these horrific events...
THE BEST WAY TO CLEAN EIFS

THE BEST WAY TO CLEAN EIFS

Unless your background is in the building trades you may not know the term EIFS. Pronounced EEPHUS, the word stands for Exterior Insulation Finishing System, a non-load bearing wall treatment that resembles stucco in appearance. Unfortunately its beautiful, textured...
Ladder Safety: Simple Steps to Avoid Big Disasters

Ladder Safety: Simple Steps to Avoid Big Disasters

At some point in our lives we will all encounter a job or project that will require us to perform a task that is out of ones reach.  And as compelling as it may be – standing on a chair, boxes or table isn’t really the best idea. For those “out of reach”...
Wood Restoration: It’s Knot for Amateurs

4 Professional Tips on Maintaining a Deck

Like most people, you probably spend a good deal of time on your deck. You barbecue gourmet meals, host backyard get-together’s with neighbors, and even enjoy your morning coffee on it. It is an important part of the place you call home. Because it is such a...