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Yearly Archives: 2009

Making Sidewalk Art With A Power Washer

Making Sidewalk Art With A Power Washer

Today’s consumer power washers are good cleaning tools but you can also have some fun with them and add a decorative flair to your home. Just about any type of small to medium pressure washer should work for this project, no matter how low the psi might be. With a little imagination and creativity...
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How To Hang Drywall – A Beginner’s Guide

How To Hang Drywall – A Beginner’s Guide

Like many home improvement projects, hanging drywall is one half art, one half science and one half luck. I learned this first-hand as I completed hanging the drywall in my first real full room renovation. I’ve mentioned before that I’m refinishing a room in my basement that was framed out and paneled years ago....
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10 Cool Ways To Find Wood and Metal Studs in Walls

Ways To Find Wall Studs

Having trouble finding a stud in a wall is an almost universally shared problem that most homeowners have experienced more than once. Even people who don’t have any idea how houses are built know that to hang something really heavy you almost always need to screw or nail into a stud and not just...
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Paint Your House With These House Painting Tips

Paint Your House With These House Painting Tips

One of the many outdoor home improvement projects I’ve completed this summer is a complete painting of a my home’s exterior. If you hire a professional house painting company you can easily spend between $2,000 to $5,000 for a general paint job, depending on the size of your home and the complexity involved. There...
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Improving the Cooling Power of Your Central Air Conditioner

Improving the Cooling Power of Your Central Air Conditioner

Now that we’re into some of the hottest days of the summer those of you with central air conditioners might be finding that on the really hot days your home isn’t staying as cool as it once did. Maybe you’re even finding that your central AC isn’t able to keep up with a stretch...
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Ladder-Max Ladder Stabilizer Review

Ladder Stabilizer Review

So far I’ve spent my summer starting a bunch of exterior home improvement projects around the house which all, in one form or another, seem to require me to use a ladder. Last year I got “lucky” and only ended up replacing the wooden fence around my yard which required absolutely no ladder work...
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The Home Depot’s Home Improver Club

The Home Depot’s Home Improver Club

The Home Depot is offering a new online home improvement service for DIYers called the Home Improver Club. It’s a free service and it seems to be alternative to the Lowes Creative Ideas, Garden Club and Woodpost magazines. You can sign up at the Home Improver Club website and it’s being advertised as “an...
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How to Remove Carpet Tack Strips and Staples

How to Remove Carpet Tack Strips and Staples

If you have a home that’s a few decades old and has had multiple owners then there’s a pretty good chance that you have at least one or two rooms that have hardwood floors that have been covered with wall-to-wall carpeting by previous owners trying to save some money on flooring costs. Wall-to-wall carpets...
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Stop Wasting Water By Fixing These Common Bathroom Leaks

Stop Wasting Water By Fixing These Common Bathroom Leaks

If you want to help the environment by saving water and save yourself some money then you should consider checking all your bathroom fixtures for leaks. If they do leak then you’ll want to repair those leaks as quickly as possible. This is one home improvement project that just about anyone can get a...
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Basement and Garage Organization Tips

Basement and Garage Organization Tips

One of the first tasks I had to undertake in my ongoing basement remodeling project was an organizational one: in essence I had to organize all the junk and boxes in my basement simply to reclaim enough space to be able to work on the remodeling. There are lots of basement organization guides and...
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Do-It-Yourself Gutters: Vinyl vs. Aluminum

Do-It-Yourself Gutters: Vinyl vs. Aluminum

One of my home improvement projects this summer is to paint my house and while I’m doing that I figured I would also replace the old aluminum gutters that I currently have installed on my home. Gutters are an essential part of most roofing systems because they collect all the rain that hits the...
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