Around the House with Eric G®: Upgrade Your Home Like a Pro

Around the House with Eric G. is home improvement talk with dirt under its fingernails. Eric G. and John Dudley bring a designer-and-contractor contrast to everyday homeowner decisions, which keeps the advice grounded in both how a space should look and how the work actually gets done. The show is brisk, conversational, and opinionated. It has no patience for expensive houses filled with bargain-bin choices. Cheap flooring in a high-end build, flimsy cabinet pulls, refacing a worn-out kitchen, or dropping new stone counters onto cabinets that should have been replaced all become examples of the same larger lesson: plan before spending. That bluntness is part of the appeal. The show treats listeners as capable homeowners who can handle a reality check. It covers remodels, repairs, HVAC service, smart-home upgrades, Wi-Fi problems, garages, appliance choices, decking news, energy savings, and state-by-state building code shifts. Some episodes stay tightly focused on one costly decision. Others move through a wider midweek update, mixing maintenance reminders with product and industry news. The rhythm is usually banter first, then a practical takeaway. A joke about old plastic handles can turn into a serious warning about resale value. A discussion of summer cooling can become a case for preventive HVAC service contracts, especially for older relatives who cannot afford a breakdown in extreme heat. The show also stretches beyond tool talk when guests discuss home projects connected to service, community work, fire rescue families, or animal shelters. Those episodes still fit the same frame: houses and buildings matter because people have to live, work, recover, and serve inside them. Around the House is strongest when it explains sequence. Do the kitchen in the right order. Think through the garage before coating the floor. Understand code changes before assuming gas or heat pumps will be treated the same everywhere. The advice is direct, sometimes funny, and often built around what went wrong for someone else first. For homeowners, that is the useful part. It helps turn project enthusiasm into better questions before the checkbook opens.