If your next big project will be cleaning out your garage or basement, you’ll probably be faced with lots of decisions – about whether to hang onto that half-full can of paint that you used on the bedroom walls, about whether those never-opened tubes of caulk you bought on sale two years ago are too […]

Many older garages were built much like sheds and pole barns.  The studs were set into the soil and siding was attached; if you were lucky, there was a bottom plate that sat directly on the dirt.  Later, an asphalt or concrete floor may have been poured, covering the bottom plate (if there was one) […]

Over 20 years ago, a worker using a backhoe to dig a trench in the Slavic Village neighborhood of Cleveland struck a natural gas line that ran alongside a building.  He miraculously survived the resulting explosion that flipped his machine over backwards, but suffered some second- and third-degree burns.  The pipeline he hit was an […]