World Education on January 23rd, 2010

How often over the years have you heard that “owning a home is the best investment you will ever make?”.   Well, I am simply going to tell you that it is not and it really never has been.   The only time a home was a good investment was when they were bought before the credit [...]

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World Education on January 3rd, 2010

Insulating your home is of course the only way to make your home more comfortable during the extreme temperatures of the winter and summer months. An older gentleman that I worked with at one time on a project, that is an engineer and holds a PhD from Kansas University, put it simply, “Throw your money [...]

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World Education on August 8th, 2009

Ok, back by popular demand, I’ve received a few emails from people looking for tips (from a previous article I wrote) on how to paint their concrete floors. So I have some pictures of a room in my basement that I had painted. Unfortunately, I lost a few of the pictures that showed some important steps [...]

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World Education on June 7th, 2009

Every now and then I like to post articles of my own home improvement projects because sometimes I am just a little too impressed with my own work. This project was done last February. But I got to looking at it the other day and decided to write a post about it.

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World Education on April 4th, 2009

I had written a previous article on a solution for flooring in a basement. While not all basements are perfectly ready to be claimed as living space due to mold producing humidity or potential water leakage problems which leaves the idea of carpeting out of the question, there are still other options to make use [...]

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