Roofs
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Hurricane Ida No Match for Louisiana Couple’s Metal Roof

Jaime E. Love

When David and Ruby LeBlanc starred on a Today’s Homeowner television episode that featured an exterior renovation and metal re-roofing on their Cut Off, Louisiana home, they had no idea it would become the best insurance for Hurricane Ida, which would arrive shortly later.

The re-roofing project — and episode — was completed just weeks before Ida hit. The Category 4 storm lashed David and Ruby’s neighborhood for seven long hours, with torrential rain and wind gusts exceeding 180 miles per hour. Country-wide, Ida lasted from Aug. 26–Sept. 4, 2021.

David and Ruby evacuated before Ida hit, but they were on pins and needles waiting to find out how their home had fared. They soon learned that the destruction to the area was devastating. But their new metal roof remained virtually unscathed from Ida’s tremendous force. It saved their home.

“Our neighbor’s garage had exploded. Boats were flung up on

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Home Design
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IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BRICK: LEGO’S MODULAR SYSTEM

Richard J. Robinson
It's all about the brick: LEGO's modular system — THNK School

It’s all approximately a modular machine. It’s all approximately distinguishing the ones simple constructing blocks of your company idea that may be assembled and re-assembled into several various services. Think approximately the LEGO brick and the countless opportunities for innovative buildings that it offers. This is what we communicate approximately at THNK; growing a modular machine of services. Creating the opportunity to split and ad infinitum recombine the factors of your company idea’s essence. If we have been to select one inspirational instance of an agency that masters the artwork of modularity, LEGO might be it.

 OW IT ALL STARTED

It is 1932 while Danish grasp chippie Ole Kirk Christiansen founds LEGO in Billon, Denmark. The agency is to start with the targeted production of wooden toys for children but quickly switches to plastic fabrication. During the 1950s, Christiansen and his son, Gottfried Kirk, placed a brand new concept for … Read More

Home Improvement
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10 tips to attract more wildlife to your land – Home Improvement Blogs

Jaime E. Love

(BPT) – Can’t wait to go hunting or fishing on your back 40? Or maybe you just love watching wildlife in the backyard through your kitchen window? If you want to attract more deer, wild turkey, quail, fox or other wildlife, there are a number of things you can do to make your land more attractive.

Whether you own a hobby farm, a ranch or a few acres of land that you’d like to keep wild, according to the yard-care experts at Toro, manufacturer of the high-quality, reliable zero turn mowers built to mow big acreage, the key to attracting more wildlife to your property is to better understand the wildlife you want to attract and their habitat needs, which includes a consistent food supply, clean water and places to hide from predators or to nest.

In other words, leaving your land wild is not enough. Follow these 10

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Home Improvement
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WoW is a Best of Houzz 2022 Awards Winner for Highest Level of Client Satisfaction

Jaime E. Love

With 2022 already in full steam ahead, Windows on Washington is also off to a flying start after winning the Best of Houzz 2022 award for the Highest Level of Customer Satisfaction. We are not in the home improvement business to simply win awards, but when you look at our history of wins, it brings us so much joy to know that you – our valued clients – are appreciating and loving our work on your homes. 

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