Housing Watch: Starting home improvement projects

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Back successful 2009, Ty Pennington unveiled the melodramatic alteration astatine Mary Ann Riojas' Fresno location connected ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

The Riojas household was overwhelmed.

"I conscionable remember, too, however astonishing the assemblage successful Fresno was to travel retired and support," helium said. "There were truthful galore radical that were involved. It was conscionable specified a moving acquisition to to beryllium capable to to item idiosyncratic similar her."

Today, Ty inactive works connected location betterment shows.

We asked him astir doing his enactment connected tv and however different workers mightiness comparison it.

"I mean, there's ever idiosyncratic who thinks they tin bash it better, right," helium said. "What was astonishing for maine is radical came retired of the woodwork to archer maine however awesome it was that I go celebrated for being a carpenter, due to the fact that a batch of times, I deliberation that was benignant of a middle-class job."

With the warmer weather, Ty says present is the clip for immoderate projects to assistance you enactment chill and prevention money.

"Another proposition is to commencement small," helium said. "A astute thermostat, immoderate caller insulation oregon adjacent conscionable sealing gaps oregon cracks successful your location tin person a immense impact. You don't person to bash everything astatine once."

Most radical don't person the carpentry skills and enthusiasm of Ty Pennington, but arsenic helium says, you conscionable commencement small.

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