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  • Installing A Preformed Tub Surround

    In door plumbing; how different our lives would be without it. While the advantages to indoor plumbing are many, there are potential disadvantages. Water can be one of the single greatest enemies to a home. It is...

    • Posted August 29, 2015
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  • How to Maintain Appliances

    Did you know that the average American homeowner depends on at least seven appliances to accomplish day to day routines? I bet we can easily name over a dozen that you are intimately familiar with: refrigerator, freezer,...

    • Posted August 29, 2015
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  • Watering Your Garden Sensibly

    When we were kids our dad made us work in the garden every Saturday. We turned soil in the flowerbeds, pruned shrubs and hedges and weeded. There was no lawn where we lived. Only flower beds and...

    • Posted August 28, 2015
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  • Insulation
    Insulation: All About Insulation

    The furnace is running full bore and yet you feel a chill down to your bones. There isn’t a window open in the house and the walls and ceilings are fully insulated. You simply can’t figure out...

    • Posted August 28, 2015
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  • Cleaning Mildew on Various Surfaces

    First, there was nuclear waste, then came contaminated ground water. Polluted streams, rivers with fewer fish and oceans laden with oil slicks followed. You would think that the moment that you walked thorough your front door of...

    • Posted August 28, 2015
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  • Gardening tools
    Repairing A Shovel Handle

    Duct tape can be used to fix just about anything including including a garden tool handle. Unfortunately, a little too much pressure applied to a handle repaired with duct tape and you could find yourself flat on...

    • Posted August 28, 2015
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    The Secret To Cutting Your Home Insurance Costs

    For most people, a home is their single largest investment. Thus, it makes good sense to do everything you can to protect the integrity and value of that investment. This column is dedicated to helping you do...

    • Posted August 28, 2015
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  • What You Need To Know About Compression Fittings

    As we wrote this column we were returning home from a remote radio broadcast that had aired from Rockford, Ill. Rockford is a large community (population 145,000 +/-) located about an hour west of Chicago. The radio...

    • Posted August 28, 2015
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  • Finding A Stud

    We have absolutely no idea exactly how many sexually oriented jokes we’ve heard on the subject, but they number somewhere in the thousands. They range from quotes about Dr. Ruth, the world’s most famous sex therapist, to...

    • Posted August 28, 2015
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  • Why Does My Toilet Flush Slowly?

    Q. The toilets in my four-year-old house flush so slowly that sometimes only half of a lone piece of tissue makes it down the drain. Are my toilets bad or is it the pipes? A. No, your...

    • Posted August 28, 2015
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