Who Needs That Electrical Box In The Ceiling? While we may not always understand why some things are required when building a home, we can't just change things without doing them right. The homeowners asked me to replace their track lighting in the living room and I was happy to do so. I assume
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11/05/2015
I See That You Replaced The Closet Shelf Yourself! There are times when it is very clear that a job was done by someone less than professional. They may have been hired to do the work but it was not done in a professional manner. I came across this closet shelf in an apartment, it was completed
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11/04/2015
Cracked Tub Drain Leak Found in Folsom It took a contractor to find this tricky leak in Folsom. Others were trying to repair all sorts of likely sources of the leaking water. Plumbers putty, tightening of the drain, and checking the overflow proved to be useless. Sometimes finding the leak is ju
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11/04/2015
New Laminate Counters In Cameron Park Apartment Installing new laminate counters in Sacramento and El Dorado County is not a new service for Tromler Construction, we install these counters in apartments and homes regularly. When working with an apartment community, at some point management may
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10/21/2015
I Didn't Know The Pipes Were Buried In The Concrete It wasn't a surprise, I expected to find plumbing, electrical, and communication lines in the original trench. We had a chance to discover these in an earlier project but what we found today was a surprise. The pipes were buried in the concret
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10/20/2015
Retaining Wall Posts Are Rotted We are working on replacing a long section of retaining walls in Cameron Park made of wood. The wood posts, though pressure treated to preserve, are rotten in the center of the post. It appears that the tops and bottoms of the pressure treated lumber was not prot
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10/12/2015
Can You Get Matching Siding in Sacramento? One of the concerns with doing any home repair or improvement in Sacramento is finding matching building materials. A bad match will only make the new work look out of place. So it is not uncommon for a contractor to be asked if matching materials are
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10/08/2015
I See Where The Leak Was, Why Are We Not Repairing It? I'm not always sure what it is that goes through the thinking process of management sometimes, I just do as I am instructed. To do more may make sense to me but I may not know all the facts. This ceiling was the result of a water leak a few
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10/05/2015
Sometimes The Lender Sets The Rules We get calls in the Sacramento Region for dry rot and water damage repairs on a regular basis. Sometimes the repairs are necessary before the funding of a loan will happen. Last week we had to complete some wood rot before the refinance would be approved. We
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10/04/2015
Sometimes Those Hairline Cracks Just Keep Coming Back There are some buildings that have a tendency to shift. I'm not talking about major settling but movements great enough to cause those hairline cracks in the walls or ceilings. With some buildings this shifting is temporary, some a regular i
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09/24/2015
