Category: Home Maintenance

Are you paying for expert opinions?

When you think about it, we put a lot of trust in experts such as doctors, dentists, hair stylists,  plumbers, IT professionals…   Even something such as a massage. In one place you might pay $100/hr for one and $50/hr at another place. Is the massage therapist more qualified in the location you’ve paid $100?…

Why you shouldn’t always trust the experts

Before we installed our wood stove insert in our fireplace, we were signed up with a local oil company to deliver oil and service our furnace and tank. The price was higher but yearly maintenance was free so we assumed this was a good deal. After we installed the stove, we used a lot less…