We’re rounding out our New House Know-How series this week with special guest, James.  He’s a good buddy of ours and new homeowner.  Listen in as we discuss his renovation woes and triumphs.  James is a You can, man. success story with his freshly acquired DIY skills.  We talk everything from load-bearing walls to bacterial meningitis.  It’s a doozy.

Dave and Tim helped James with his load-bearing walls project at his new house. The image above is James just after we owned those two walls and had removed the temp walls. You can, man!

On this week’s show we continued our New House Know-How series discussing tasks you should accomplish after you move into your new house. A few of these are no-brainers, but some are things you may not have thought about doing. In keeping with our, “What one man can do, you can do as well” motto, you’ll find that most of the tasks on the checklist are things you can totally take care of yourself. Example: meeting your neighbors. That’d just be weird if you hired someone to do that.

Being a homeowner comes with tons of responsibility. It can also include hefty bills paid to service contractors if you don’t take matters into your own hands and tackle doing things yourself. On this week’s show, New House Know-How, Part 1, we discussed five basic things to know when you become a homeowner. You may be a longtime homeowner and think our list is almost too basic, but run it by your non-homeowner friends. You may be surprised that they don’t know what they don’t know. We want to encourage new and longtime homeowners alike to get to know their house and the systems that keep it running.