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Are you looking to get the biggest bang for your buck? In this hour of DIY Live, we are taking a look at which renovations have the best resale value and which remodels will decrease your home’s resale value.

The theme of this week’s show is how to get the biggest bang for your buck when renovating your home. Host Karl Champley and Dr. Cort Stoskopf discuss the importance of making changes to your home that matter and how cleaning up can be a difference.

Painting is a low-cost way to improve your home-- and you can change it! Karl Champley and Dr. Cort Stoskopf bring on Dan Claybaugh from Kelly-Moore paints onto the show. Dan talks about the background of the Kelly-Moore paint company.

We brought Dan Claybaugh of Kelly-Moore Paints onto the show to discuss reflective solar coating paint called Enviro Coat Reflective. This paint is designed to reflect the sun’s heat.

There’s a lot of great tools out there, but some make a bigger impression than the others! Dr. Cort Stoskopf and Karl Champley share their favorite tools for the week. Listen in to find out which ones they are!

Which changes can you make to your home that will make the biggest improvement? Host Karl Champley lists off the top 10 home improvements that will give you the highest return percentage.

There are several things that you’d think would improve your home, but really won’t! To wrap up the show, Karl Champley and Dr. Cort Stoskopf talk about some of the changes you might make to your home that won’t be worth it. Karl and Cort also give their tips for the week. Find out more here!

In this hour DIY Live with Karl Champley and Dr. Cort Stoskopf, we are broadcasting live from the International Builders Show. Among our guests is Vanilla Ice from The Vanilla Ice Project and Ty Pennington from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Karl and Cort sit down with Vanilla Ice and Ty separately to talk about their shows and upcoming projects. Also, we talk to Brian from Panasonic about the LED technology that they’ve recently included in their products, Derrick Mellencamp from Aquasana about water filters and lastly Jim Thrift from Leviton about their USB charging station and more!

Host Karl Champley and co-host Dr. Cort Stoskopf are sitting at the International Builders Show. Karl and Cort give an overall view of the show and how many things are easy and DIY friendly. We’ve got a show coming to you that’s full of "Karl Approved" products.

Panasonic uses LED technology to create quiet and energy efficient fans. Karl Champley and Dr. Cort Stoskopf visit with Brian from Panasonic and talk about the benefits to using LED technology.

Have you seen The Vanilla Ice Project? Host Karl Champley and Dr. Cort Stoskopf sit down with Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle) and chat about his DIY shows. Vanilla Ice talks about how his shows are designed to educate, motivate and inspire people.

Ty Pennington from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition visits with host Karl Champley and Dr. Cort Stoskopf. Ty talks about how impressed he is with the International Builders Show. Also, we talk with Ty about his upcoming projects which includes the NextGen Home.

It’s time to stop buying bottled water! Aquasana offers several different products including drinking water filters, shower filters, and whole house water filters. Host Karl Champley and co-host Dr. Cort Stoskopf sit down with Derrick Mellencamp from Aquasana and talk about the benefits to using a water filter in your home.

Karl Champley and Dr. Cort Stoskopf stop by the Leviton booth while at the International Builders Show. Leviton recently acquired H.A.I. and Jim tells us all about it. Jim also talks about their new product called Renu and USB charging receptacles.

This week’s show is brought to you from the International Builders Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Karl Champley and co-host Dr. Cort Stoskopf start it off by talking to John Ronaldon of Boral. Ann Matheis of Schlage steps in to tell us about their deadbolt and thermostat. Cindy has a company called Kul Grilles that offers some sexy looking grilles for the home. We have back to back Mike’s with Mike Koster of Lowe’s and Mike Majors of Quikrete filling in the middle of the hour. We wrap up the show with Jim Thrift of Leviton.