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How To Use A Pressure Washer
Tips and Important considerations when using a Pressure Washer Here at A Concord Carpenter we love tools and believe the right tool for the job can save you time and money, but ultimately you’ll get...
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How To Prepare Your Lawn For Winter
Fall lawn care tips from A Concord Carpenter The overall beauty of your home can be impacted by your landscaping, and your lawn is probably the largest part of your yard. So regardless of how well...
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How To Prepare Your Lawn For Winter
Fall lawn Care Tips From A Concord Carpenter The overall beauty of your home can be impacted by your landscaping and your lawn is probably the largest part of your yard. So regardless of how well...
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Winter Moth Caterpillar Infestation
Tree Insect Control – Winter Moth Caterpillar Infestation If you live along Northeastern Seaboard chances are you have or will have tree damaged by a small, green caterpillar called the winter moth...
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How To Install Cobblestone Edging
Cobble Stone Garden Edging and Borders I live in the Metro-Boston area where older streets are still paved in granite cobblestones and setts. Cobbles stones make great edging material for gardens,...
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Dealing with Carpenter Ants
Carpenter Ant Treatment For Your Home Ants are interesting creatures. Did you know that an ant can carry 50 times its body weight? Accepting that ants live in nature is one thing but having them live...
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Job Site Sawhorses
Job Site Saw Horses In my small world of residential remodeling and carpentry I always find myself in need or a pair, or more accurately, several pairs of job site sawhorses. As I get older I find...
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How to Apply Epoxy Paint to a Workshop Floor
Rust-Oleum EPOXYSHIELD for Garage and Basement Floors Like a lot of folk, I spent quite a bit of time in my basement workshop. A workshop floor takes a huge beating and nothing looks better in a...
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How To Select The Best Fall Arrest Harness
How To Select The Best Fall Arrest Harness As trade professionals we can often find ourselves working at dangerous heights. Some of us make our living working at these heights day in and day out, but...
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Replacing A Window Pane
Repairing a Broken Marwin Window Pane In the remodeling and carpentry world I often get calls from customers asking about replacing a window pane that was damaged by a hockey puck or lacrosse ball....
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How to use Metal Studs for strapping and leveling a Ceiling
How to use Metal Studs for strapping and leveling a Ceiling When remodeling a space or converting an unfinished space to a living space the ceiling can often be a source of frustration if it is out of...
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Decorative Tray Ceiling
Framing A Decorative Tray Ceiling A tray ceiling is a rectangular architectural feature that is either inverted or recessed. Tray ceilings can be plain, ornate, subtle or dramatic and almost always...
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How to Install Speaker Wire Behind Crown Molding
Hiding Speaker Wire Behind Crown Molding A client of mine asked for me to install crown molding in his living room. We always buy the moldings we install at Anderson McQuiad, a local mill shop. All...
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Sealing Granite Counters
Sealing Granite Counter Tops Sealing granite counters is important because contrary to popular belief granite is porous. Applying a high quality sealer will block liquids [stains] from seeping into...
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Preventing Pipes From Freezing
Image: pro.corbis.com/images How-To Avoid Freezing Pipes This past cold spell was a bad one! My brother, a plumber, was out on emergency calls all weekend thawing out water pipes and repairing pipe...
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How to Build a Custom Cabinet
How to Build a Custom Laundry Cabinet Laundry Cabinet This article will focus on “How to Build a Custom Cabinet.” More specifically, a cabinet that is designed to hide four laundry baskets. The...
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Dishwasher Buying Guide
Older dishwashers, ten years or more, are neither energy efficient nor water efficient. Often times using between 8 an 15 gallons of water per cycle. Purchasing a new Energy Star rated dishwasher...
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Installing A Wall Safe
How To Install A Wall Safe: Most crimes committed are related to theft of personal property from a residential location. There are many precautions you can take to secure your home from locking your...
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Tile Back Buttering
What is Back Buttering? by Phil Green Unless you, or know someone is in the tile industry, this phase may be uncommon to you. Back Buttering is the term used to describe the technique of applying...
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How to Make A Custom Slate Chalkboard
Custom Slate Chalkboard In this article we will show you how we cut a 100 year-old authentic schoolhouse chalkboard and created a custom frame in which to hang it. A client of ours came across some an...
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