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11/05/2024Home Repair Contractors

This is how much homeowners are spending to replace a roof or furnace and fix a toilet

Something you often hear about home ownership is that it’s a forced savings plan. What you never hear is that owning a home is a forced spending plan as well.

While you’re building equity by making regular mortgage payments, you’re also paying for repairs and maintenance. But how much, exactly? Home repair costs are the great unknown of home ownership.

To bring some clarity to the cost of home maintenance, I asked readers of the Carrick on Money e-mail newsletter to fill out a questionnaire about the cost of repairs they’ve done and additional details such as the size and

28/09/2023Home Repair Contractors

How to Fix and Prevent Bubbling Paint Like a Pro

Painting is a very satisfying home improvement task. In a few hours, you can change the entire look and feel a room. However, as with all DIY projects, it’s not always as easy as it seems. You can avoid a lot of problems by following our how-to painting guide. Some problems, however, don’t show up until after the paint has dried. Bubbling paint is one of them, and it’s a perfectionist’s nightmare.

Paint bubbling, or blistering, is one of those pesky unforeseen issues that can, ahem, pop up a few hours after you put down your brush or even years

26/07/2023Home Repair Contractors

How to Fix a Broken Toilet

It’s annoying. One moment a toilet flushes reliably. The next, it doesn’t. In most cases, the fix is fast and simple, requiring a few minutes of work and a trip to the hardware store or home center. But let’s take a worst-case example. Suppose the toilet’s fill valve is shot. Again, it’s not a big deal. Fill valve kits are designed with DIY installers and handy people in mind. Honestly, there’s not much to installing one.

The first step is to lift the toilet tank lid and have a look inside.

Step 1: Investigate the Flush Lever and Flapper valve

08/07/2023Home Repair Contractors

How To Fix a Hole in the Wall 2023

Whether you’re changing up your gallery wall arrangement, filling in a dent or divot you made by accident with a piece of furniture, or trying to ensure you get your security deposit back after you move, repairing a hole in the wall isn’t anybody’s idea of a good time. It’s tedious and a little intimidating; you might even think it’s pointless to try to get your wall to look perfect again. There are home remedies you can use (toothpaste and Elmer’s glue were common nail-hole fillers in my college dorm) for a quick fix, but we all know those don’t