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Tips & Insights

Tips & Insights

Practical advice on additions, basements, roofing and finish work from the Montocon General Contractor team.

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Planning a Home Addition in the DMV: What to Sort Out First

The design is the fun part. What actually decides your timeline is the setback rules, the permit queue and whether your foundation can carry what you want to put on it.

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Finishing a Basement: Deal With the Water Before the Drywall

A finished basement that was framed over a damp slab is a mould problem with a nice floor on top. The order of operations is the whole job.

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When to Replace Your Roof (and When a Repair Will Do)

Not every leak means a new roof, and not every intact-looking roof has time left. Here is what actually decides it.

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Deck Footings: Why the Part You Cannot See Decides Everything

Freeze-thaw is hard on a deck. The boards are the cheapest thing to replace; the footings are the thing that makes it solid in ten years or spongy in three.

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New Siding: What Goes Behind It Matters More Than the Panel

Siding is not waterproof and was never meant to be. The layer behind it is what keeps the wall dry — and it is the layer most often skipped.

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Why Paint Prep Is the Job, and the Painting Is the Easy Part

Two crews can use the same paint on the same wall and get results five years apart. The difference happened before the lid came off.

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