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Q & A, Repairs & Advice, Siding
Question I have vinyl siding with black mold on it. Should I power wash it, or is there a simpler solution? Answer Without seeing your home, we suspect the moldy sections of your vinyl siding are on a part of the house that gets little or no direct sunlight, and the...
Accessible Design, Awards & Recognition, Kitchens
For a man in a wheelchair, accessibility is a necessity. The main reason he had his Belleville, Illinois townhouse built new in 2002 was so accessible features could be installed in the entries, bathrooms and kitchen before moving in. While the rest of the...
Design & Remodeling, Designer Talk
Designer Talk: A Short List of Favorite St. Louis Design Resources Dean Vitale Mosby Building Arts Designer Dean Vitale is a St. Louis native who has returned to town after 15+ years as a designer in San Francisco. Through his Mosby remodeling projects, Dean’s...
Exterior Design, Repairs & Advice, Water Management
Randy Sloss is the Mason for Mosby Building Arts, following in the footsteps of his mason father and grandfather. Along with brick, stone and tuckpointing work, he spends a lot of time on roofs looking at chimneys. Learn about brick chimney leaks, repair and...
Basements, Design & Remodeling, Personal Spaces
We love playing games at home, and instinctively create spaces to recreate. For example, a certain chair across from a certain TV that’s regularly used to play video games is a dedicated recreation space. As the games get bigger, like pinball or table tennis, it...
Exterior Design, Repairs & Advice, Water Management
It’s easy to see when wood porch columns begin to fail because they are in our sightline, and the majority of the time the rot begins at the bottom of the column. The sooner you tackle column problems the more likely it can be successfully repaired. Wood columns on...
Remodeling, Repairs & Advice
A St. Peters, MO woman bought a fixer-upper ranch house that needed some repairs and updates, but she liked its open plan and could see the potential. While she could take care of many of the projects herself, there was one item that she called “the elephant in the...
Bathrooms, Design & Remodeling, Designer Talk, Kitchens
Jillian Brinkman Mosby Building Arts Designer At Mosby, we love to discover new products that will inspire our remodeling clients. The best place to find the latest and greatest is at the yearly Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS). This year I attended KBIS in Las...
Q & A, Repairs & Advice, Roofing
Question We live in rural Illinois in a north-facing home. I’m having a hard time keeping ridge cap 3-tab shingles on the roof because of high winds. The wind pulls them off 6 to 8 at a time while leaving the nails intact. I have layered the tabs in a north-south...
