Your Valuable Home
60 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAfter years on the radio, hosts Kevin Kennedy and Ron Melk have flipped the switch to podcasting! Our Home Improvement Replays can spark ideas about projects for your home. Our Horror Stories can help you avoid one. Our Featured Segment draws in experts from across the country on everything from new building products, maintaining a healthy home and leveraging home equity, to choosing the right contractor, adding value to communities and so much more. Your Valuable Home is not about DIY or flipping. It is about building wealth with real estate, choosing the right contractor to do the right job at the right price…improving communities. We pack each hour-long podcast with valuable education for homeowners and landlords who believe that knowledge is the path to wise decisions.
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Success is Spelled T-Y-V-E-K
May 20, 2021 00:00 - 49.8 MBOur Replay today and our Horror Story are both about Mark and his bathroom re-do. Bathrooms can be difficult, and this one was. In our Featured interview today we speak with Alan Hubbell from DuPont Tyvek. Such a simple product, but it can keep you out of trouble. For example, Tyvek Wrap around a window cavity before the window is installed can provide you with many years of trouble-free installation. Why not insist on it?
Why Do Some Cities and Towns Flourish and Others Flounder? Part II
May 13, 2021 00:00 - 52.6 MBIn our Replay today, Lisa tells the story of her just-completed kitchen. The project included the relocation of her washing machine to the upstairs master bedroom. This outside-the-box solution facilitated expansion of the kitchen. Split HVAC systems require a lot of tubing to be inserted into wall cavities. In our Horror Story today an installer got creative and ran the tubing on the outside of the house, including over the roof. Unbelievable! Then in our Feature segment, singer, songwr...
Why Some Cities and Towns Flourish and Others Flounder
May 03, 2021 00:00 - 51.5 MBIn our Replay today, Mark’s 1,000 square-foot basement is almost totally made over. Imagine this: a built-in gas fireplace and a kitchen with cabinets that match those in his just renovated kitchen above. There’s a water monitor just in case. Egress was achieved with Bilco Doors. All things to consider, if you want to make your basement livable. In our Horror Story, we talk about a contractor who was called in to fix a leaky roof. He took 50 percent up front and disappeared for three we...
Lessons from the learned landlord and property manager
April 29, 2021 00:00 - 50 MBIn our Replay today, Kevin explains to a homeowner how windows should be replaced to avoid causing damage to surrounding stucco. The Horror Story today comes from Ann, a residential landlord, who reports on an alarming development at one of the HOA-run communities where she has a rental property….a $500 annual assessment against investor owners of properties in the community. And in the College, we welcome back, Scott Abernathy, a valued Your Valuable Home contributor. Scott is president o...
Should you live in a multigenerational household?
April 22, 2021 00:00 - 47.4 MBIn the Replay today, we discuss what it takes to make for a successful siding and window installation – and the difference it can make in the appearance of a home. In the Horror Story, Kevin reports on a basement remodel that included a kitchen and an electrical nightmare lurking behind the walls. Then, for our Featured interview, we address the surge in multigenerational living brought on by COVID and the need for financial support and/or care for aging family members. Donna Butts, Execu...
Roofing wisdom from an 88 year old company who set the standard for asphalt shingles.
April 15, 2021 00:00 - 22.5 MBIn our Replay today, we talk about wrapping up Leslie’s remodel to benefit her aging mom. This complex job included a kitchen in the basement, a chair lift and the removal of a load-bearing wall. Our Horror Story deals with the DONT's of window installation in a stucco application. And in our Featured segment, two executives from GAF, the company that set the standard for asphalt shingles in 1933 serve up Roofing 101, and explain how homeowners from Texas to New England could have avoided ...
This breakthrough stops COVID cold.
April 07, 2021 00:00 - 24.1 MBThis week's episode features big news about new technology that rids COVID and other pathogens from indoors spaces. But first, – in our Replay for the week – Mark talks about his extensive home remodel for anyone who loves their home and neighborhood but wants to update and refresh. Mark and his wife decided to totally gut their existing kitchen in favor of a new one, and – at the time – eliminate the wall that used to demarcate the dining room. For the basement, the couple is planning a w...
Move or Improve in 2021?
March 31, 2021 00:00 - 24.8 MBThis is the title of our featured interview for today, but it could also apply to our Replay – a kitchen expansion, complete with a “lift” to prevent Leslie’s aging mom from falling while going up and down the stairs. The bonus for this multi-generational family was the expansive back yard view they gained from the removal of a load-bearing wall to enlarge the kitchen. In our Horror Story today, we discuss water damage that resulted across many parts of the country this winter from ice da...
What’s Driving the Great American Migration?
March 24, 2021 00:00 - 26.6 MBIn our Replay today, we talk with Bob about his move to his fiancé’s small house and an innovative way to remake existing space for two work-at-home people. One bay of the exiting garage became a bar. The 400-square-foot upstairs of the garage became Bob’s space. Maureen calls it the “doghouse.” If you’re leaning toward improving vs moving, you’ll want to hear this. In our Horror Story, you’ll learn what can happen to a house where the pan in the upstairs shower didn’t extend far enough up t...