Month: February 2016
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The Garbage Disposal Secret Your Plumber Won’t Tell You
Garbage disposals are scary machines, especially from the vantage point of the average user. You’re looking from above at a hole, inside which contains a spinning machine capable of lopping off your fingers. Naturally, most of us like to play it safe around garbage disposals. But what do you do when it jams up? It
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How to Paint an Old Piece of Stained Furniture
So you found a cool old table at a yard sale, and you love its shape, size and style, but you hate the color of its stain. It won’t fit into your home, and from past experience, you know that re-staining it is more work than you’re willing to put in. Well, we have a
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Lawnmowers: Electric vs. Gasoline
It’s mid-February, which in south Texas means spring has nearly sprung. If you’re a new homehowner, or your old lawn equipment has simply given up the ghost, it’s probably about time to buy a new one. If it’s been a few years since you shopped for a lawnmower, you’ll notice an entirely new option available
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Do Houses Really ‘Settle’ And Is That a Problem?
Since you were a kid, you’ve noticed creaking, popping, moaning noises coming from the bones of various houses. Nothing to worry about, some adult told you, the house is just “settling.” And so you accept that explanation and move on. But what, exactly, does it mean for a house to settle? What causes it to
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7 House Plants to Make Your House Smell Great the Natural Way
The world has no shortage of products designed to make your house smell good. You can spray stuff, you can light stuff, you can plug in stuff, you can just leave bowls of stuff sitting around. The disadvantage of all that is that the smells don’t last long, and you have to buy new products.
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How to Transplant a Tree
You have a tree in your yard that you really like, you just don’t like its location. Maybe it obscures a view or hangs over a walkway. We don’t know. We just know that people often wish their trees could be in a different place. Well, we have good news. You can totally move a