by Joe Levitch | Oct 7, 2011 | Historic District Homes, Home Evaluations, Moisture Protection, Understanding your home
Let’s first outline the subject matter. I recently published a similar blog on foundation moisture to review the senses and how they can be used to ferret out what is wrong. In this post I am exploring how I use my senses in a broader way. I work like a Crime...
by Joe Levitch | Sep 30, 2011 | Concrete, Siding, Understanding your home
Plaster describes the earliest interior coatings. It is a Greek term meaning to “daub on” and it dates back to 500 BCE. It was not until the invention of Portland Cement that exterior plastering, then called Stucco, was developed that could withstand the...
by Joe Levitch | Sep 23, 2011 | Architecture & Design, Concrete, Home Evaluations, Problem Solving, Process, Understanding your home
We, ” Levco” just encountered another situation where the handy man would not be a good fit. Did you ever get the feeling that the (fill in the blank) just didn’t feel strong enough to hold a few folks in the same place. Weird feeling, trust your...
by Joe Levitch | Sep 9, 2011 | HVAC, Plumbing, Understanding your home
Although I have remodeled many homes we haven’t run into too many hydronic heating systems. By the time we remodel most of the home’s heating systems have been altered several times. My own home started with Coal, then converted to Oil and then to Natural...
by Joe Levitch | Sep 2, 2011 | Floors, Understanding your home
This project had original 2 1/4″x 3/4″ tongue and groove #2 Red Oak floors already as the primary flooring in the home. It was easy to weave in the new identical product and refinish the entire place. Josh at Sunrise hardwood floors did the work. Oak...
