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Add Curb Appeal with Vinyl Siding

Your old home looks like the worst home in the neighborhood. You’ve just recently finished a DIY home remodeling project inside and are ready to give your house some curb appeal on the outside, but what to do? Adding vinyl siding to an old home is probably one of the most cost effective and quickest way [...]

How to Install Soffit and Fascia

Installing soffit and fascia can add increased value to your fresh DIY home remodeling project. Soffit and fascia can also add protection from the elements as well. Not to mention it will also keep pests out of your attic such as birds, squirrels and wasp’s etc. The expense of installing soffit and fascia is relatively cheap [...]

Make Money in Real Estate

It would be nice if making money in real estate was easy. Unfortunately to make money in real estate requires a lot of time and effort. The only way to really profit buyiing and selling real estate is to do the work yourself. DIY home remodeling will yield the most profit for your labors. Finding [...]

Purchasing a DIY Home Remodeling Project

Paying rent just didn’t seem like a good thing to keep doing. It was ok at first , but I just couldn’t see paying someone else’s mortgage payment. The rent house I had got me by but I was ready for something I could call my own. I decided to purchase a DIY home remodeling project. I [...]

New Vinyl Siding

To make the old house have more curb appeal, new vinyl siding was installed. Vinyl siding offers a cost effective way to add curb appeal and to protect the structure of the house when you are considering a remodeling project. Installing vinyl siding goes on super fast and is relatively easy once you get the techniques [...]

Remodeling the Exterior

Some of the best remodeling projects you can do involve remodeling the exterior. Making the exterior of your remodeling project home shine can have huge payoffs in the end if you are trying to sell your property. Curb appeal is what its all about. The exterior needed a facelift. It had two layers of siding [...]

Installing New Windows

Nobody ever said remodeling a home would easy. The old house had mostly original windows installed. These windows were the kind that had wood frames and the large lead weight to balance the pane when opened. The glass was the old style wavy kind. Some people pay top dollar for that wavy glass – a [...]

10 Steps to Remodeling a Home

Remodeling a home is no easy task. If you’re a (DIY) do it your-selfer then the task of remodeling becomes even more difficult. Following some simple steps may make things go a little easier. Planning a remodeling project is key. The pre planning you do will make your remodeling project go much smoother. I’ve assembeled [...]

House Siding Demolition

The remodeling project house has two layers of siding that needed removed. We spent a weekend removing a layer of old aluminum siding and a layer of old wood siding. The siding demolition project was a lot of work but with four guys it made the process go fairly well. Demo’ing the siding created a [...]

The Cost to Remodel a Home

If you’re like me you wonder how much it’s going to cost to remodel a home? That’s not an easy question to answer. Through out my remodeling project I kept track of all my reciepts and expenses. Luckily for you I have organized all my remodeling costs to give you an idea what it might [...]