The Handyman Company

For a lot of people the front door tends to get seldom use as they go in and out through the garage. Check it occasionally as birds will take over in a blink. If they can't build on a ledge they'll find that nice wreath or the spot between the porch light and the wall. They are not the cleanest housekeepers.

Check under the sink occasionally for small leaks. They turn into big leaks and that turns into rusted pipes and then that turns into so many other problems that it'd be a whole lot easier (and cheaper) to just check under the sink occasionally for small leaks.

It's weird but then that's Al. https://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com//weird-al-yankovic-hand

The Handyman Company featured on KSPR News discussing home repair scams tonight.

http://www.ozarksfirst.com//ice-dams-weather-storm-damage/

Interesting opening segment on KOLR 10 news at 10pm tonight about Ice Dams.

Old ad for Springfield Symphony program book. Now check out the new color ad that Traders Printing & Design created.

Thanks to Ryan & Gary at Traders Printing & Design right here in Springfield, MO for their great work in updating our ad for The Springfield Symphony book. They really listened and then created just what we needed. Thanks!

Have you ever noticed that almost every barn you have ever seen is red? There’s a reason for that, and it has to do with the chemistry of dying stars. Seriously. Yonatan Zunger is a Google employee who decided to explain this phenomenon on Google+ recently. The simple answer to why barns are painted red is because red paint is cheap. The cheapest paint there is, in fact. But the reason it’s so cheap? Well, that’s the interesting part. Red ochreFe2O3is a simple compound of i...ron and oxygen that absorbs yellow, green and blue light and appears red. It’s what makes red paint red. It’s really cheap because it’s really plentiful. And it’s really plentiful because of nuclear fusion in dying stars. Zunger explains: The only thing holding the star up was the energy of the fusion reactions, so as power levels go down, the star starts to shrink. And as it shrinks, the pressure goes up, and the temperature goes up, until suddenly it hits a temperature where a new reaction can get started. These new reactions give it a big burst of energy, but start to form heavier elements still, and so the cycle gradually repeats, with the star reacting further and further up the periodic table, producing more and more heavy elements as it goes. Until it hits 56. At that point, the reactions simply stop producing energy at all; the star shuts down and collapses without stopping. As soon as the star hits the 56 nucleon (total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus) cutoff, it falls apart. It doesn’t make anything heavier than 56. What does this have to do with red paint? Because the star stops at 56, it winds up making a ton of things with 56 neucleons. It makes more 56 nucleon containing things than anything else (aside from the super light stuff in the star that is too light to fuse). The element that has 56 protons and neutrons in its nucleus in its stable state? Iron. The stuff that makes red paint. And that, Zunger explains, is how the death of a star determines what color barns are painted. Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com//barns-are-painted-red-b/ Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter

Easy way to paint pegboard: stand 2 x 4s on edge, cover with roofing paper. Lay peg board down, shiny side up. Roll Kilz 2 (latex) on with even pressure, one coat. Follow up with second coat of color of choice. If holes fill with paint, raise peg board about 5" and let drop.

Show your true colors: hoist the Red, White and Blue!