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About Your House with Bob Yapp WQUB began broadcasting About Your House with Bob Yapp on April 5th 2009.   This show is a home improvement and home preservation self help program.  Bob is an expert that has been preserving historic homes for his entire life, his show takes questions from callers every week.              Bob's experience as a carpenter began at a young age.  As a teenager he helped his Dad with the many renovations of their family's Craftsman Era home in Des Moines, Iowa.. In the mid-1970s he spent several years as an apprentice to a German furniture and cabinetmaker. Soon afterward, he opened a business designing and building custom furniture and also bought his first house--a craftsman bungalow--to renovate. In the 1980s he continued to restore homes and build furniture for clients from California to Chicago.  Bob, his wife Pat and their dog Betty live in Hannibal, Missouri. Bob has written and co-written many woodworking and preservation articles in national magazines including; Meredith Publishing's Wood Magazine and Renovation Style Magazine. Currently Bob writes a monthly feature story on historic house restoration for the News-Gazette in Champaign Illinois. Soon after the Register column premiered he began a syndicated radio show also called The House Doctor.  In 1994 Bob produced a pilot video called, The House Doctor, Top Ten Tips For a Healthy Home. It was originally intended for the listeners of his radio program but was picked up and nationally distributed as a fund raising special for PBS in 1995 and 1996. The special aired successfully around the country, ultimately resulting in a commitment by PBS and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to air 52 programs as an ongoing series called About Your House with Bob Yapp.  Since leaving PBS Bob has dedicated himself to preservation education.  In September 2002 Bob partnered with the Kentucky Heritage Council and the Pine Mountain Settlement School to found a hands-on training school to teach practical, cost effective restoration methodology. He has helped establish and taught at numerous preservation trades programs around the country in high schools and colleges. In addition to teaching at The Belvedere School in Hannibal, he teaches and helped found the Preservation Trades Program for at-risk students at Hannibal High School. About Your House with Bob Yapp airs on WQUB Sunday's at 11:00am.

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