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Bullnose Rain Gutter Covers – Part 3

This project is continued from Part 2. The bullnose style gutter covers work by wicking rain water into the gutter while tree debris falls over the side, keeping the gutter clean. However, gutter covers can’t make up for an poorly installed gutters that are uneven and lacking sufficient pitch, or slope, to drain properly. The [...]

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Bullnose Rain Gutter Covers – Part 2

This project is continued from Part 1. Before installing the new bullnose metal gutter covers, I cleaned most of the tree debris from the flip-up screen gutter covers that will be replaced. The flip-up gutter screens do a good job of keeping the gutters clean. The problem with the screens is tree debris is caught [...]

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Bullnose Rain Gutter Covers – Part 1

This article explains how to tune-up your rain gutters and install a bull-nose metal rain gutter cover. The gutter is cleaned, remounted with a proper slope for drainage and metal gutter covers installed. Bullnose gutter covers are probably the best solution for keeping debris out of the rain gutter to minimize difficult and expensive gutter [...]

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How to Replace an Exterior Door – Part 4

This project is continued from Part 3. The Therma-Tru® Traditions® pre-hung entry door is now installed in the rough opening and it’s time to install the brick mould. The door can be ordered with the brick mould already fastened to the door frame or ordered “loose”. I ordered it loose because this gave me the [...]

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How to Replace an Exterior Door – Part 1

This project explains how to replace an exterior entry door with a Therma-Tru® Traditions® pre-hung door. This particular door style is the Traditions® single light, double-glazed, low emissivity (Low E) glass, grill between the glass (GBG), pre-hung steel door, model #TS-108 GBG. The door is Energy Star® Qualified and eligible for the American Recovery & [...]

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