How to Choose the Right Screens for Your Screened Porch

Adding a screened porch to your house extends the amount of pleasant space your family can relax in without leaving home. It enables you to be closer to nature, while enjoying all the comforts of the indoors. One of the most important ingredients to gaining the benefits a screened porch can provide is the screens themselves. 

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How to Protect Yourself When Hiring a Contractor

A home improvement project gone wrong can turn the house you love into your biggest source of stress. In a worst-case scenario, a badly built construction project can cause you and your family serious danger. Issues can be avoided if you take some simple steps to protect yourself when deciding what contractor to hire.

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6 Popular Home Improvement Projects in Charlotte, NC

When considering possible changes for your own home, sometimes it helps to get inspiration from what others around you are doing—that’s at least part of what drives the popularity of home improvement shows. But trends can vary in different places, and maybe you want to keep your inspiration local.

For residents of the Charlotte, NC area, we can give you an idea of the types of home improvement projects popular with your neighbors right now based on what we’ve been hearing and seeing from customers.

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Home Improvement and the Supply Chain: 3 Things to Know

Supply chain effects to construction are happening, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t move forward with the renovation you want. The longer lead times mean getting your project on the calendar sooner rather than later is smart. And the current stock market conditions and loan terms mean that, if anything, this is a great time to make an investment in your home.

With the right construction partner, you can still experience a relatively smooth and successful home improvement project. It just might take a little longer for construction itself to get started.

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10 Red Flags to Look Out for When Hiring a Contractor

Choosing the right contractor for a home improvement project isn’t a small decision. The stakes are high, both in terms of the costs involved and the impact a bad contractor can have on your quality of life. The risks of hiring an unreliable contractor are high. An unreliable contractor could stop showing up before the project’s complete, leaving your home (and your family) in a weird, messy limbo until you can find someone else to take over.

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15 Questions to Consider When Adding a Screened Porch

A screened porch is a great way to add more space to your home and give your family more comfortable access to the outdoors. But it’s not a small project to take on. Adding a screened porch to your home isn’t like adding a new garden or painting a room – projects you could probably tackle yourself over a productive weekend. It requires planning, a budget, and a thoughtful approach.

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How Much Should a Basement Finishing Project Cost in Charlotte

With the caveat that no blog post can provide you an accurate quote for the particular basement finishing project you have in mind, this one will supply a starting point for the kind of numbers you can expect to encounter when you start looking further into getting your basement finished.

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Should You Hire a Specialist or General Contractor for Your Deck?

Outdoor specialists will have experience building decks and porches, for sure. But plenty of general contractors will as well. And if you find a good builder that has years of experience tackling indoor projects as well as outdoor ones, they bring some unique benefits to the process.

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