The effective management of stormwater is important at any property, but that’s magnified at a commercial place, with customers, vendors and community stakeholders frequently around places of business. Here is a series of best practices for stormwater management [...]
Your driveway is one of the first things frequent household guests and first-time visitors alike might notice about your property. In the interest of putting your best foot forward from an aesthetic standpoint, it’s best to keep an [...]
There are many reasons why a gravel driveway might be right for your home or property. In order to maximize those benefits, proper maintenance is important. Here are some tips for how to keep your driveway looking and [...]
OK, so you’ve either acquired a manmade pond or installed one yourself. Like most any landscaping feature, it’ll require some elbow grease to keep it looking and functioning as it should. Muck, waste and assorted unsightly and foul-smelling [...]
Soil erosion is a problem that compounds itself: the stripping away of the top level of soil on your property can increase the likelihood of flooding, which in turn can create worse erosion. Erosion – most often caused [...]
Many projects of a construction nature require clearing the site first. Knowing how this can be correctly done before beginning the process will save time and effort further down the line. Removing trees, brush, rocks and stones, stumps [...]
Effective management of stormwater is critical to making one’s property the best it can be, from a visual and aesthetic standpoint to ensuring the safety and longevity of any structure on it. Additionally, there are a handful of [...]
They say in the Ohio Valley that if you don’t like the weather – especially in the spring or the fall – wait five minutes and it will change. Many aspects of society can be affected by wild [...]
One way to enjoy the advantages of lakefront property without blessing the real estate community in your area is to create your own lakefront property – by putting in your own body of water. And, after all, not [...]
“Working in the trenches” is a euphemism often used in our language for a tough situation – either in a positive connotation of putting in the work to get through it, or the glass-half-empty, fatalistic viewpoint of how [...]