Almost every deck conversation we have with New Jersey homeowners ends up at the same question: composite like Trex, or wood? Both make great decks. They just ask very different…
Go up into the attic of an older New Jersey home and you will often find the same thing: a few inches of yellowed insulation, matted down, with the tops…
Windows rarely fail all at once. They get a little drafty, a little harder to open, a little foggy between the panes, and one winter you notice you are wearing…
If you live under oaks, maples or pines in New Jersey, you already know the routine: ladder out in the fall, ladder out again in the spring, and somewhere in…
Vinyl siding has a reputation for lasting forever, and compared to wood it does pretty well. But “forever” depends a lot on how it was installed, what product was used,…
After a big wind storm, plenty of New Jersey homeowners look up at the roof, see nothing obviously missing, and figure they got lucky. Sometimes that is true. Often the…
Commercial roofs rarely fail all at once. They fail one clogged drain, one split seam and one forgotten rooftop unit at a time. The building owners who get the longest…
Plenty of New Jersey homes have at least one flat or low-slope section: a back porch roof, a kitchen addition, a dormer, a garage, or the whole roof on a…
It is 10 o’clock at night, the rain is coming sideways, and you just heard the drip. Panic is a normal reaction. The good news is that a few calm…
A water stain on the ceiling almost never sits right under the hole in the roof. Water gets in at one spot, runs down a rafter or along the top…