Barry Morgan • Home Improvement | Remodeling | Home Repair || DIY & Pro

Home Depot, Kwikset SmartKey & Me – Introduction

Products

The Kwikset SmartKey lock gives homeowners the ability to quickly and easily re-key their own locks without removing them from the door. Based on performance and features, Kwikset SmartKey deadbolts earned the...

by Barry Morgan

The Lessons of Hurricane Irene :: On Hurricane Preparedness

Homeownership

In the beautiful week before Hurricane Irene coastal Delaware was doing its summer thing. Every other car had out-of-state plates and vacationers were enjoying the beach while my clients, who rent their...

by Barry Morgan

Contractor’s Notebook: Spring Cleaning, 40 Foot Ladders & In Remodeling, Close is Close Enough

Remodeling

As common with installing recessed lighting, sometimes framing hinders the ability to place things exactly perfect, so sometimes -- close is close enough. + Organizing the Van & What it's like working...

by Barry Morgan

Contractor’s Notebook: Shoddy Roof Work, A Crawlspace Pose & Compression Stress (A Fiction)

Three short posts for pros. Other People's Poor Jobs (aka OPPJs) & Working - Shoddy Roof Work Leads to Major Damage + Notes and stories from Inside a Crawlspace.

by Barry Morgan

Trading Places :: Harrison Ford

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Ford's background as a tradesmen gave something of an everyman quality to his acting. There was a rugged depth to his early character work that made his action heroes believable. [ ....

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All Hallows Houses :: How to Stage a Haunted House

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Haunted Houses are amazing. Not real Haunted Houses (though they may be) but the kind which spring up all over America in late October every year. I thought I might do my...

by Barry Morgan

Learning How to Hammer a Nail :: Afflicted Nails: A Tree Fort Flowering

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Back when tools felt unfamiliar and over sized in the hand there was a bent bouquet of 16 penny nails in a board we were trying to attach to a tree ....

by Barry Morgan