Our kitchen has good bones — solid cabinets, decent countertops, a layout that works for a family of six. But for years, we cooked in a shadow. The overhead light did its job, more or less, but the moment you stood at the counter to chop vegetables or help a kid with homework while dinner
If you’ve lived in Connecticut for any length of time, you already know the signs. The white crusty buildup around your faucets. The spots on your dishes no matter how many times you run the dishwasher. The soap that never quite lathers the way it should. The water heater working harder than it ought to,
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It started with a raccoon. Or at least that’s what my 10-year-old decided it was. For two weeks straight, something kept triggering the trash cans on the side of our house in the middle of the night — and nobody in this family was going outside in January to investigate. What we needed was a
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Last February, a friend from our church called me in a panic. He’d come home from a weekend away to find his finished basement completely soaked — a slow drip from a supply line behind the washing machine had been running for two days. The cleanup cost him over $8,000 out of pocket after his
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