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When was the last time you took a good look inside the cabinets under your kitchen sink?

Its not an area of the kitchen that gets a lot of attention, since its usually out of sight and out of mind. That was the case for us for several years since we moved into our house.

Have you ever had a leak in your garbage disposal or in the pvc pipes?

If you have, then you probably know what that does to the bottom board of the cabinet. It gets all nasty and warped and just generally gross looking.

It was always one of those things where we said, yeah, we need to replace that board someday! But it just seemed like it would be more effort than it was worth.

Turns out thats not true.

It was really a pretty simple job to fix it, and it was such a breath of fresh air to be able to put our cleaning products under the sink without having them fall all over each other (thats how bad ours was warped).

So if your kitchen is in the need for some TLC under the sink, youre in luck. Ill show you how I fixed ours up.

I know my wife was awful grateful to have a clean and functional under sink cabinet again.

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Posted January 29, 2015 08:35 am | Op-Ed

By Martin Dyckman

Is the Florida Cabinet worth its keep, or is it simply worthless? That venerable question has been brought front and center again by the Gerald Bailey kerfuffle.

In the aftermath of his resignation as commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Cabinet Attorney General Pam Bondi, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam resembled to a remarkable degree the three monkeys who see, speak and hear no evil.

When Gov. Rick Scott told them Bailey had retired voluntarily as commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, they didnt seem the least bit curious about why he left without a days notice or even a goodbye.

Then they were shocked shocked! when Bailey told the media that Scott had put a gun to his head by claiming he had the Cabinets votes to fire him. Bailey got only a couple of hours to clean out his desk. All that was missing from his summary humiliation was an armed guard marching him to the door.

But if Scott is telling the truth for once, we have a clue about why the Cabinet may have been so incurious and so quiet.

Scott claims his aide informed their aides that he wanted Bailey out.

If so, and they didnt pass the word on, there are three aides who should be looking for new jobs.

If the aides did tell their bosses, that makes Atwater, Bondi and Putnam silent partners in what smells like a rotten deal.

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(Bloomberg) -- Cory Laws considered selling his house and moving to an updated property with his girlfriend. But he likes his neighborhood, so he decided to spend as much as $100,000 to remodel the Herndon, Virginia, home.

I bought the house for me and my two girls at the time, but theyre adults, said Laws, 61, whos already rebuilt one room and added mahogany floors to his basement to turn it into a guest apartment. Were morphing the house into our haven.

Laws is among U.S. property owners providing a boost to the $300 billion home-improvement industry. Spending on renovations may rise to a record this year as homeowners with low interest rates decide to stay put and remodel their existing homes, stimulus programs encourage energy-efficiency upgrades, and surging demand for rentals spur landlords to invest in their properties, according to a report released Thursday by Harvard Universitys Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Home improvements and repairs now generate about 1.8 percent of U.S. economic activity, slightly below the average over the past decade. As owners gain equity in their properties and rents continue to rise, investment in improvements to the nations housing stock is likely to strengthen, the center said in its study.

Homeowners in U.S. metropolitan areas, where incomes and property values tend to be higher, account for the majority of improvement spending, according to the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based center. From 2011 to 2013, spending rose 5 percent among urban homeowners, while falling 0.2 percent among non-metro households.

Especially in hot real estate markets such as Washington, D.C. -- where prices are rising and completed sales increased 8 percent in December from a year earlier, according to data provider RealEstate Business Intelligence LLC -- people are deciding to renovate rather than move, said Andreas Charalambous, principal of Forma Design.

Charalambous said his Washington-based interior architecture and design firm just completed its best year since its 1994 founding.

And its getting better, he said. People feel more comfortable with whats happening in the economy.

Owners in Washington spent the most on improvements, at $5,000 on average, in 2013, the last year the Harvard housing center studied. Boston homeowners followed, spending an average of $4,900. New York was the largest remodeling market, with more than $12 billion in total expenditures. Spending in Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia ranged from $4 billion to $7 billion, according to the report.

Shares of home-improvement chains Lowes Cos. and Home Depot Inc. have been rising. Lowes has soared 47 percent in the past year, and Home Depot has surged more than 33 percent.

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Cory Laws considered selling his house and moving to an updated property with his girlfriend. But he likes his neighborhood, so he decided to spend as much as $100,000 to remodel the Herndon, Virginia,home.

I bought the house for me and my two girls at the time, but theyre adults, said Laws, 61, whos already rebuilt one room and added mahogany floors to his basement to turn it into a guest apartment. Were morphing the house into our haven.

Laws is among U.S. property owners providing a boost to the $300 billionhome-improvement industry. Spending on renovations may rise to a record this year as homeowners with low interest rates decide to stay put and remodel their existing homes, stimulus programs encourage energy-efficiency upgrades, and surging demand for rentals spur landlords to invest in their properties, according to a report released Thursday by Harvard Universitys Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Homeimprovements and repairs now generate about 1.8 percent of U.S. economic activity, slightly below the average over the past decade. As owners gain equity in their properties and rents continue to rise, investment in improvements to the nations housing stock is likely to strengthen, the center said in its study.

Homeowners in U.S. metropolitan areas, where incomes and property values tend to be higher, account for the majority of improvement spending, according to the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based center. From 2011 to 2013, spending rose 5 percent among urban homeowners, while falling 0.2 percent among non-metro households.

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Especially in hot real estate markets such as Washington, D.C. where prices are rising and completed sales increased 8 percent in December from a year earlier, according to data provider RealEstate Business Intelligence LLC people are deciding to renovate rather than move, said Andreas Charalambous, principal of Forma Design.

Charalambous said his Washington-based interior architecture and design firm just completed its best year since its 1994 founding.

And its getting better, he said. People feel more comfortable with whats happening in the economy.

Owners in Washington spent the most on improvements, at $5,000 on average, in 2013, the last year the Harvard housing center studied. Boston homeowners followed, spending an average of $4,900. New York was the largestremodelingmarket, with more than $12 billion in total expenditures. Spending in Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia ranged from $4 billion to $7 billion, according to the report.

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Michael Straessle

Michael Straessle has written professionally about the construction industry since 1988. He authored What a Strange Little Man, among other books, and his work has appeared in various online publications. Straessle earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in professional/technical writing.

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April 24, 1953 Jan. 22, 2015

Ronald Harvey of Buffalo, who worked for many years in the home construction and remodeling industry, died Jan. 22 in Erie County Medical Center. He was 61.

Born in Buffalo, he was a graduate of East High School. Mr. Harvey continued his studies at Erie Community College and began working in the field of heating and cooling, installation, carpentry and home improvement.

He was employed by Vastola Heating before to going to work for Dwight Hill Home Improvement for more than 20 years. While employed there, Mr. Harvey used his talents in carpentry, roofing and siding, masonry, woodworking, installing drywall and many other construction and remodeling projects. In addition, he was responsible for completing various interior and exterior renovations at the townhouses in the Ellicott Mall on the citys near East Side.

Mr. Harvey was eventually promoted to supervisor at the company and was responsible for overseeing the companys lead abatement projects with the city.

Mr. Harvey also worked for Ellicott Community Redevelopment Foundation for over 10 years and was responsible for renovating apartments, electrical and plumbing maintenance, as well as various groundskeeping duties. Periodically, he performed inspections at apartments owned by the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority. Mr. Harvey was a member of Local 200 of the Service Employees International Union, and was most recently employed by Thompson Construction Co.

He and his wife of 11 years, the former Ellen Wade, have been together for 32 years. In addition to her, he is survived by a son, Ronald Jr.; three brothers, Milo Jr., Rodney and Myron; and a sister, Anita.

A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in Mount Olive Baptist Church, 701 E. Delavan Ave.

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