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A Subfloor for Your Basement

Engineered flooring shown over a basement subfloor. STEVE MAXWELL/POSTMEDIA NETWORK If you’re finishing your basement, whether it be for...

Always Plan for Your Escape

Sometimes, you’ve just got to get yourself out of a situation in as expedient a manner as possible. Say you’re a teen in a home where the...

How to Create and Sustain Basement Life

Last week, we discussed the importance of ensuring your basement space is capable of remaining dry, essentially step one in the creation...

Step No. 1 to Finish Your Basement

At some point in the life of homeowners the idea of turning an existing basement, which up to this point has served the home as little...

All Hail the Crown

Today we’re installing what’s most likely the nastiest, most ornery, and to say the least, most challenging type of molding found in a...

Choosing Casing and Baseboards

First, some basic education. The casing is the decorative trim, or molding, that gets installed around your interior doors and windows....

Items You Could Put in Their Nail Pouch

The task of Christmas gifting doesn’t have to be such a challenge if you choose to follow one simple guideline: “make it a practical...

Updating that 1970’s Door

As we look forward to four months of cold weather, short days, and general dreariness, this might be a good time to pour yourself another...

No Basement Subfloor Only Equals Disappointment

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A Subfloor for Your Basement

Engineered flooring shown over a basement subfloor. STEVE MAXWELL/POSTMEDIA NETWORK If you’re finishing your basement, whether it be for...