All posts tagged "tips"
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Floor Cleaning & Maintenance: A Guide
Keeping clean what’s under foot can be a daunting task – especially if pets and little ones are a part of one’s brood. Good looks aside, regular cleaning and maintenance will keep a floor looking good and...
- Posted June 20, 2015
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Beware of a Good Deal!
While recently thumbing through a newspaper we came across an advertisement by a contractor inviting the reader to take advantage of an “unbelievable” kitchen remodeling “package” for just under $10,000.00! The display ad was accompanied by a...
- Posted June 18, 2015
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Simple Household Tips for First Time Home Owners
It’s that pomp and circumstance, tassel turning time of year that brings about both opportunity and challenge. For many, graduation signifies the beginning of still more education. For others it’s the chance to join the ranks of...
- Posted June 3, 2015
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Over 300 People Die a Year From Ladder Falls: Ladder Safety Tips
Tips for an injure-free experience with ladders. The invention of ladders has been traced back at least 10,000 years, to a primitive cave painting in Spain. The ladder is a tool of man – so basic in...
- Posted June 2, 2015
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Firewood Tips
Here’s a few firewood tips you should know before burning wood. Freshly cut wood contains about 50-percent moisture. It will bubble and hiss and form steam that forces messy resins out the ends. But it won’t burn....
- Posted December 17, 2014
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Tips for Improving Your “Home for the Holidays”
The holiday season, though festive, can be overwhelming, even chaotic for some. There’s shopping, decorating, entertaining, cooking, cleaning and a host of other tasks that can make an already busy life virtually unmanageable. In an attempt to...
- Posted December 15, 2014
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The Family Handyman’s Kitchen Storage Tips
Here are all the storage tips you need to prepare for the big dinner with ease and have plenty of room for any number of guests. Measuring Cup Hang-Up Free up drawer space by hanging measuring cups...
- Posted December 13, 2014
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Easy Tips for Hanging Christmas Lights
If you haven’t hung your lights yet here are a few tips from the experts What are the best lights to use? Commercial grade lights are the best to use. They are manufactured with a higher gauge of...
- Posted December 13, 2014
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Fireplace Remedies
Christmas Eve is a special time for family and friends to gather in the glow of a crackling fire. But things don’t always go as planned and fireplaces don’t always work properly. If yours is smoking and...
- Posted November 3, 2014
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Air Conditioner Tips
In 1848, the first air conditioner was build by J.E. Coffee and installed in a Broadway theater in New York City. A year later, on the first hot day of the summer, folks were knocking on his...
- Posted August 4, 2014