Gutter hangers screw into the fascia board. That is the whole structural arrangement. The bracket sits inside the trough, the screw bites into the wood behind it, and everything the gutter carries in a storm is held by the condition of that board. Which means a gutter problem and a wood problem are frequently the
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How to Repair Screen Doors for Your Porch A screen door is supposed to be simple. Open. Close. Keep the bugs out. But once a screen door starts sticking, sagging, or letting mosquitoes sneak in, it becomes the most annoying part of your porch. And in the CSRA, where bugs are not polite, a bad
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If you’re planning a porch makeover, you might be surprised by how much the screen itself affects the whole experience. The right screen: The wrong screen?You’ll be repairing, re-screening, and getting annoyed every time you notice a sag or a rip. Here are the top screening material options and what they’re best for. The big
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If you want long-lasting protection, you need more than “a screen.” You need a screening option that survives real life. In Augusta and the CSRA, durability matters because: This guide covers the best durable porch screening options and how to pick the one that holds up. Durable option #1: Pet-resistant / heavy-duty screen Best for:
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One visible drip will make an entire gutter system feel finished. Water coming off a seam onto the front steps every time it rains is impossible to ignore, and it is a common reason people start pricing a full replacement over a single joint that could be cleaned and resealed in an afternoon. It runs
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The pitch for gutter covers is that you will never clean your gutters again. What a cover actually does is move the debris from inside the gutter to on top of it, and under a stand of Georgia pines that distinction is the whole story. Pine straw does not behave like hardwood leaves. It sheds
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Can you imagine a house in Summerville had its trim repainted a deep charcoal two summers ago and looked completely different from the street. Better, sharper, the kind of change that makes the neighbors ask who did the work. Then you look up and there is a bright white gutter running the whole length of
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A house in Martinez went under contract last year and then spent two weeks in a negotiation about a patio cover. Not because the cover was bad. It was well built and the sellers liked it. The problem was that there was no permit on file for it, so the buyer’s agent asked what else
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A couple in North Augusta screened in their back porch in May and were happy with it immediately. Coffee outside, dinner outside, no mosquitoes. Then about three weeks later the wife mentioned, almost in passing, that the kitchen felt like a different room. Darker. She could not put her finger on when it happened. It
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A homeowner in Evans called about a pergola last spring and had the location settled before we got there. Right off the back door, attached to the house, over the concrete slab that was already poured. Perfectly sensible. That is where the grill lived and where everybody already stood when they went outside. Then we
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