MONCTON A Moncton home inspector iswarning home owners and residents that warmer weather could allow melting snow to seep into homes, causing major water damage.

Dan Connors speaks for Metro Maintenance and Inspection and his staffare in the process of restoring a home with somemajor water damage.

Connors sayswarm days and cold nights can allow water to seep in through roofs.

There was a severe case of water damming, he said. Where the water backs up under the shingles and gets the roof boards wet and causes the insulation to get wet and its a snowball effect right down into the basement because it goes down through the walls.

Connors says homeowners can avoid the problem by allowing water to pass through their eavestroughs.

If we dont clear our own down spouts and stuff like that the waters got no place to go, he said. Itll back up the spout and inside the roof and youll have water damage almost anywhere in the house.

But some say the damages are catching homeowners by surprise.Scott Douthwright is a project manager at FirstOnSite Restoration.

Some people are surprised, he said. Theyve never heard of ice damming before.

Douthwright says snow-related damages have been keeping them busy.

A good chunk of them are ice damming claims, he said.So people are starting to get water damages coming in from the build up ice along the eave of the house.

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Updated: 03/10/2015 7:22 PM | Created: 03/10/2015 7:07 PM By: Nikki Ibarra, KOB Eyewitness News 4

After an Albuquerque woman nearly lost her entire home in a fire, a group of strangers stepped in to help her out.

Sungha Mannion hadn't set foot in her home since a fire broke out in mid-December until this week.

"I'm crying. The first time I walked in here, I sat down crying," Mannion said.

They were tears of thanks because her situation could have been a lot worse. When the fire broke out, she didn't have homeowners insurance.

Patrick McKinney, with the Albuquerque Area Firefighters Random Act of Kindness group, found out about Mannion's story and wanted to help out.

For the past few months, they, along with Paul Davis Restoration of Albuquerque, restored not only the entire house, but some of the keepsake items as well.

They restored linens and paintings from her native South Korea and made everything more special.

"I'm just surprised that people did such a nice thing for everything in my house," she said.

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This grand crystal chandelier, which predates the historic home, came from Baur's, a confectionary in Denver.

SUMMIT COUNTY When Christy and Randy Rost bought Swan's Nest in 2006, they knew they were in for a long haul.

The historic mountain estate outside Breckenridge was in need of major rehabilitation, from the dramatically sinking foundation to the almost-total lack of insulation.

"It was not habitable in the wintertime only in certain rooms," Randy Rost said.

Contractors recommended they gut it and start over.

"We didn't want to do that because we would have lost all the historical nature and beauty of this home," Christy Rost said. "That was not right for the house."

Instead, the couple slowly but surely breathed life back into the Victorian mansion that was originally built in 1898 by Ben Stanley Revett, the Gold Dredge King, as a summer home for his bride.

The restored Swan's Nest is a mix of historic features and the modern amenities that Christy, a chef, cookbook author and TV lifestyle guru, needed.

The Rosts' Swan's Nest is a mix of historic features and modern amenities, chosen with an eye toward their love of entertaining, as well as honoring the outsize character who built it more than 115 years ago.

"I think Ben would be very happy with what we've done. There's been a lot of love in this house, a lot of heart," Christy Rost said. "It was our job and our honor, really, to restore this house so it lasts another 100 years."

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Sir George Gilbert Scott was commissioned to build Fitzroy House in 1862 Asked to create memorial library for Lewes MP Henry Fitzroy by his widow Scott was the most eminent and fashionable architect of the time Also created the Albert Memorial, the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London Fitzroy House is now on the market for offers in excess of 1 million

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Published: 17:13 EST, 28 February 2015 | Updated: 17:15 EST, 28 February 2015

When people move house they often refer to entering a new chapter of their lives or turning a new leaf. For Jim and Maureen Franks, either expression couldnt be more apt, as the couple are now leaving a former library they have lived in for almost 40 years.

And its not just any old library. Fitzroy House, their Victorian Gothic revival home, was built by the most eminent and fashionable architect of the time, Sir George Gilbert Scott, the man who also created the Albert Memorial, the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, all in London.

He was commissioned to build the memorial library for Lewes MP Henry Fitzroy by his widow Hannah in 1862, and it was used by the town until 1958 and later turned into offices.

Striking: The Victorial Gothic revival property's clock tower, right, and left, the large octagonal atrium

It then faced demolition in the 1970s before locals moved to preserve the building, and quantity surveyor Jim Franks saw an opportunity to save the structure while turning it into his family home.

But now, in their mid to late 80s, the pair are finding the huge, 2,800 sq ft two-storey home right in the centre of the historic town of Lewes, East Sussex, just a little too much to cope with, and are looking to downsize while staying in the town. Fitzroy House is on the market for offers in excess of 1 million.

It was extraordinarily run-down and had been empty for six or seven years, says the Frankses daughter, Eleanor Austin.

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Hi Friends! How was your weekend? I sure hope it was amazing!

We are nearing the end of this series and today we are sitting down with Bre from Rooms for Rent to hear a firsthand account of how God continues to turn beauty into ashes in her life. Grab a cup of coffee or tea and enjoy this encouraging story!

I've been in church my whole life, however that doesn't mean that I've had it easy or a perfect life by any means. I first experienced God's saving freedom when I was 13 and my family was broken apart by divorce. I had every reason in the book to turn my back on God then, but He showed up in such a powerful way and saved me from going down a very destructive path. Fast forward a few years, I started dating my now husband, and we have been happily married with 2 little kids for almost 10 years. I had always dreamed of becoming an interior decorator, it was something I enjoyed doing early on. I think I was the only 12 yr. old who would create vignettes in her room out of all my friends. I would rearrange my displays just for fun, and turn any flat surface into a beautifully decorated canvas. I would cover my walls in giant collages of cut outs from magazines and photos of me and my friends. There wasn't an ounce of wall left to be seen, and it all inspired me. It wasn't until we had settled into our first house, and after the birth of our 2nd child that the passion to decorate started bubbling up again. I had always decorated our apartments nicely, and thankfully had the freedom to paint in both of them, but this was different. This time we owned and I was bound to put my mark on it. I started my blog so I could document all the changes along the way.

About 9 months after I started my blog, I began to feel my heart strings tugged again to start exploring becoming an interior decorator. I had my hands full with two babies eighteen months apart, a new home I hadn't even scratched the surface on all my plans for yet, and still I had this undeniable urge to start my own business. You see though, I had been here before. Everytime I got this close, I came up with an excuse as to why not, and talked myself out of it. I would either tell myself I don't have the time to take the classes, or "I never went to school for that, so who would want to hire me anyways"? Then I started having kids, and put all my energy and focus into that. My husband was so supportive along the way. Seeing my desire to create and decorate, he always encouraged me, or put up with it when I was trying something new out. This time was different though, this time I had seen others, who maybe hadn't been to school, and they were doing it. I had done enough decorating for family members and friends and finally been asked one to many times when I was going to finally starting doing this as a business. Something was still holding me back, and it was more than just doubt. I wasn't afraid of failing, this went much, much deeper than that.

He took me back to when I was in elementary school, and I over heard a conversation between my 5th grade teacher, my mother and my rivals mother. Now there was no issue, it was friendly conversation. But you all know what I mean. There was that one girl who no matter what you did, she did it better. She was a better student, a better athlete, got voted for all of the superlatives. She was just your all around A+ student, star athlete, the most popular. She was everywhere in all my classes, all the sports I played, she always got the positions I would try out for. I felt like I lived in her shadow. Well one day, in casual conversation, my mother was talking to my teacher about how well of a student I was, boasting, like any mother does. I remember smiling with confidence, and then the other girls mother said "oh that's nice, but it just comes naturally to Susie(fake name), she's just better at everything" And looks at our teacher for affirmation. Instant defeat I felt, I wanted to hide behind my mothers legs and cry. I don't even think they knew I was listening. But it was that very moment that I took on the lie that "I was not good enough". I carried it with me through the rest of my school years, throughout every sport I played. Anything I put my hands to, I never put forth full effort because deep down inside I always believed I wasn't "GOOD ENOUGH"?!

I broke when God revealed that to me. That in my heart all these years, despite being saved, and doing many great things He had lead me to, I carried this around everywhere I went. It might as well been tattooed on my forehead. Oh but I hid it well. I concealed it so good I wasn't even aware it still existed. I asked God instantly to heal that part of me that had been broken so long ago, and allowed Him to speak truth over me. No longer was I believing this lie anymore. No longer was I doubting myself anymore. I used to shrug off compliments or words of affirmation, thinking I was never good enough to amount to what people were seeing. You can imagine the deep sigh of relief I felt after that sob session of realization. But it was truly releasing those lies to God and asking Him to show me how He sees me. The purpose He created me for. My own divine gifts. At the end of each chapter in Holly's devotional she closes with the most heartfelt of statements. True affirmation for the area that God is speaking to you on in that chapter. I want to share that chapter's statement with you today, and allow His truth to wash over you!

You are God's Masterpiece -

started in His heart, formed by His hands,

and offered as a gift to the world.

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Since 1981, Colonial Restorations has provided structural restoration and repair of historic timber frame buildings. A family business, Tom (UMass Class of 1973) and Brad Green (Wesleyan University Class of 2000), father and son, perform all work themselves in order to make sure that your historic timber frame project receives all the experience and commitment it requires.

In the past few years, we have worked or have done site visits as far away as Kennebunk, ME, northern Vermont, and Buffalo, NY to the north. South of our location, sites include the Hamptons on Long Island, northern New Jersey,south western Pennsylvania, and numerous sites all over CT. Of course all of Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the islands, are in our work area. We have been called to consult on houses not only with water and rot damage, but also tornadoes and even an explosion. Although New England wasnt hit hard this past winter, mother nature is always full of surprises that can affect buildings without people realizing it. If you have any questions about how the structure of your building is holding up, please Contact Us.

To know these buildings as we do is a privilege. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. And every day we find this to be true. History has a way of repeating itself. In the early-mid 1980s, the savings and loan crisis caused a recession in the building trades.In many ways, the past several years have seen economic problems and challenges similar to then. Some builders tried to provide themselves an income by expanding the services that they offered. With no real timber frame experience, they often advertised sill replacement and structural work relating to post and beam buildings. Unfortunately, they often lack the practical experience and love of the antique buildings to do the job successfully. There is an old story about a small New England town. It seems a new barber moved in and put up a sign offering three dollar haircuts. Soon after the original barber put up a sign in his window saying We fix $3 haircuts. I guess its fair to say that we have fixed many three dollar haircuts.

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LUCAS COUNTY, OH (Toledo News Now) - After major boiler and flooding issues shut down the Domestic Relations Division of the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas last month, damage assessments and costs have been finalized. The county is sharing that information exclusively with WTOL.

It caused the court to be closed for three days, which was an inconvenience to the public, we understand. But it could've been worse, said Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gerken. We have some estimates on it, we know what the damage is, we know the restoration costs and we know what the cleanup cost is.

An initial cleanup cost of $60,000 and other restorations will be billed to Lucas County, whose liability on the Family Court building is $100,000.

It's about $250,000 to do the restorations, Gerken said. It sounds like a lot of money, but like homeowners would, we have insurance and we have a risk fund to do that.

An assessment team has concluded that the damage is not structural.

The restoration is basically: We're going to paint, we're going to put wallpaper back in, we're going to put ceiling tiles back in, and furniture. So probably about four to six weeks. It's not heavy restoration, but something you have to do when your house gets wet, Gerken said.

He also said the county is in good shape financially to handle the repairs on the building, which will be 25 years old in May.

It's an important building for us, he said. There's a lot that goes on there every day. We regretted being down the three days, but we're back. That's what we have plans for and our plans worked.

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Chris Weber of the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge inspects the repaired lighthouse lens assembly.

Ponce Inlet A lens that sat atop a North Florida lighthouse from the end of the Civil War until last November was crated in a plywood box and lifted to the bed of a white pickup truck Thursday to begin its long drive home.

The Fresnel lens assembly, made in Paris by Henry-Lepaute Company between 1854 and 1860, had arrived weathered and deteriorated. It was cleaned, repaired and stabilized at the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse and Museum, a project that took four months.

Over 500 hours work, said Ellen Henry, curator at the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse who did much of that labor.

Ed Gunn, executive director of the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse and Museum, said the museum is donating the effort as our gift to the lighthouse community. It is one of the few facilities in the nation with experience in this kind of project.

Wow! exclaimed Chris Weber, facilities operation manager for the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, when he first saw the assembly. This looks right.

St. Marks is Floridas second-oldest operating lighthouse, built in 1842, three years before Florida became a state. The three-foot, egg-shaped lens assembly weighs about 150 pounds and was installed in 1867.

A Fresnel lens focuses the diffuse light from a lighthouse lamp in this case, it was originally a whale-oil lamp into a tight beam you can see for miles.

Made of rows of greenish glass prisms wedged into a bronze skeleton, the assembly had suffered metal deterioration and broken prisms after almost 150 years atop the lighthouse, which is now undergoing a $1.5 million renovation.

A lot of bad things happen over the years, and you start to lose your parts, said Henry.

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