Honey Do’s Out of Control?

Does your home repair to-do list seem to be taking over your life? Jeff Wilson, host of Buildipedia’s At Home channel, sympathizes and offers sage advice for how to tame that ever-present “Honey-Do” list. Every aspiring handyman (or handywoman) has a List. Not the list you...

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Mortgage Interest Deduction at Risk

Ever since the federal income tax was introduced in 1913, the government has used the tax code to encourage homeownership. Now, as a result of  the effort to reduce the federal deficit, the mortgage interest deduction is under fire. Proposed changes to the tax code...

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The Tom Cruise Wall

As my friend Mac Pierce likes to point out: you could get a blindfolded drunk epileptic to cross Niagara Falls on a high wire without a net, but it wouldn’t be a good idea. There are some wall assemblies that are like that. One in...

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