A backyard pool can completely change the way you use your home's outdoor space. It can become a gathering place for swimming, exercise, family get-togethers, and quiet afternoons at home. It’s also a major construction project. Installation can affect your yard layout, budget, fencing, landscaping,…

Most Richmond homeowners who call about a hot upstairs bedroom or a summer power bill that keeps climbing assume the problem is the air conditioner. Often it is not. In a typical home, roughly 20 to 30 percent of the heated and cooled air never reaches the rooms it was paid for, because it escapes t…