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Straight from the jobsite: the good calls, the disasters, and the stuff you honestly can't make up.

A lone carpenter standing amid the burned wreckage of an old farmhouse upper floor, the roof open to a cold dawn sky
Restoration
August 2026
The bottle in the wall
The Sawzall stopped a quarter inch shy of the cut. There was writing on the stud — a date in red pencil, an arrow, and a notch somebody had chiseled into the wall a lifetime ago.
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Pulp-noir illustration of a furnace technician shining a flashlight into a crawlspace opening while three dogs sit watching in the dark
HVAC
August 2026
Somebody was living under the house
The furnace ran all night and the house never got past fifty. Two outfits had already been out and shrugged. What was wrong with it wasn’t in the furnace.
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