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Home (Handyman) Consultants
eNewsletters Building Relationships Most people think a handyman is the guy who comes with a ladder to clean out their gutters, or I can replace a few broken tiles … or install a screen door. If you’re...
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EPA Creates Rules for Lead Safety
For years we’ve heard about problems where children have been exposed to lead paint, mostly from eating paint chips. Lead is a poison and it damages the children’s nervous system which causes problems...
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Find Your Home Maintenance Strategy
Having owned homes in New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and California … I thought I knew a lot about home maintenance. It wasn’t until I started My Handyman of Southern NH, that I...
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2009 Remodeling Cost vs Resale Value
This is the 4th year I’ve shared the results of the Cost vs Value Remodeling Report, 2008-2009, where data is collected each summer via survey (4,000 respondents last year). What I found most...
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NH Housing Market Stabilizes
Like home owners everywhere, you are probably watching what’s happening to real estate in your area. There are so many reports, so much data that at times it makes your head spin. Here is a graph that...
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Do You Know How Safe Your Home IS?
We assume our homes are safe, and that danger only lurks when we venture beyond our communities or to another country. When we bought our homes we picked location, location, location … for the home and...
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Help! How to Deal with a Wet Basement
#With all the rain, and spring is just beginning, lots of home owners are dealing with wet basements. We’re getting lots of calls about repairs to sheetrock, insulation, flooring … and most important,...
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How Well Did Your Home Survive the Winter?
Winter Storm We’re glad when spring arrives and we can get outside to enjoy the warm weather. New Hampshire had a relatively mild winter as most of our snow got dumped between Washington DC and New...
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NH’s Cash for Appliances (Think Cars)
Last year we all heard about the Cash for Clunkers program where the federal government subsidized a program that helped 2 initiatives – saving energy and stimulating car sales. This year more people...
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YOUR Door Questions
Each month I pick a theme to write about for my newsletter, and this month it’s doors. For fun, I decided to tweet about this and ask people for their questions … Writing about doors this month:front...
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Getting There: Walk, Bike, Bus/Train or Drive?
Parking at Japanese Store Americans are quite spoiled when it comes to our cars. There are many countries where a family doesn’t have even own a car, let along several cars … and I fondly recall the...
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Dover NH Home Show
I’ve been pretty busy these last few months, spending time with my sister in Connecticut. That means I didn’t sign up to participate in the Dover Home Show this coming weekend but you might be...
View ArticleSmall Spaces: Living in 344 Sq Ft?
What fun to revisit places I once lived. In the early ’90s, I lived in Tokyo for several years (earlier video on storing bikes). The last year I commuted to Hong Kong where I managed a technology trial...
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Peter Pan @ Prescott Park, Portsmouth NH
One of the great things about having children is getting to relive your childhood. When your children grow up and move away like mine have, there are activities that can bring back those memories....
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Why Do You Need a Dryer?
Someone shared this video on Facebook and I just had to share with all of you , especially as it was filmed in downtown Portsmouth NH. The message is important although I’m not sure how many of us are...
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Market Square Day, Portsmouth NH
One of the fun things about living near Portsmouth NH is there are lots of things to do, especially once the weather gets warm. Market Square Day always feels like the season opening and it’s coming...
View ArticleRelax This July 4th Weekend
I’m sure everyone has lots of choices of where they’ll relax this weekend. Maybe you’ll have friends over to your house, or travel to visit your children (grandchildren)? Whatever you do, take time to...
View ArticleNavy Visits West Palm Beach for July 4th
When your child goes into the military you’re never sure where they are day-to-day. Yesterday our son Ryan called from West Palm Beach to tell us they where he was. He also said he’d given the West...
View ArticleChanges to My Blogs
It’s been a while since I’ve written here. That’s not because I stopped writing but rather, I’ve been reorganizing my blogs. Here’s where you can now find … Handyman tips are now at …...
View ArticleTEDWomen: Update on Women in Leadership Roles
In this video Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, provides inspiration to women. She shares why and how women need to become more proactive in their professional growth, not only for themselves but to...
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