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Air Conditioning Repair – 4 DIY Tips You Need Before Calling a Technician
Help! It's 90+ degrees outside, you are hosting a dinner party in a few hours...and your air conditioner (A/C) just quit! Therefore, the last thing you need, or want to be worrying about is air conditioning repair...am I right? Sound familiar? It seems like this exact...
Winter Preventive Maintenance Tips & Checklist
As much as I hate to admit it, Winter is finally here! Time to break out the hats, coats, gloves, and snow shovels! The good news is, just like snow sledding, our Old House Maintenance is all "down hill" from here. This is the time of year where we basically monitor,...
Old House History: Embracing the Past
What sets aside our Old Houses from new houses? History! Old House History to be exact. All Old Houses have a story to tell...one that's been decades in the making, and told from lives of an almost forgotten era. These stories play out differently across the...
Fall Preventive Maintenance Tips & Checklist
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Summer has officially slipped away, and Fall is now upon us! But, before you sit back with your apple cider and pumpkin spiced donuts, you need to perform a proper maintenance check to prep your Old House for the wicked winter...
Hardwood Floor Refinishing in 9 Easy Steps
Hey, let's have a talk about hardwood floor refinishing! Certainly, it can be a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be! There is a famous T.V restoration star that says “she never met a hardwood floor she couldn’t save”! Therefore, no matter how bad your historic or...
Range Hood Selection, Tips, and Maintenance
Are you planning your kitchen remodel and finding yourself stuck on selecting the right range hood? With hundreds and hundreds of options available, range hood selection can be quite difficult and confusing! But it doesn’t have to be! So grab your wish list and...
Range Hood Installation: Logistics, Planning, and Execution
It’s time to remodel your kitchen, and you are planning everything around your range hood installation. You're trying to make sure that everything works and integrates together, but there are so many options. Ugh, Right? What do you do? Stay tuned, and My Old House...
Limited Closet Space? A 4-Step Solution
Are you losing your mind over the lack of quality closet space? Keep reading ... and everything WILL be ok! Don’t get me wrong, I love Old Houses, and many turn out to be nice pieces of real estate, but it’s no secret, they can be lacking real estate in the closet...
Concrete Steps and Stone Walls: Front Porch Restoration
Concrete Steps and Stone Walls The topic is concrete steps and stone (wing) wall restoration for your Old House, so don't miss these 12 vital steps to cement your porch restoration success! Read on to learn more... Background Ok, now usually when we think of concrete...