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Yearly Archives: 2010

Clever Christmas Tree Watering Systems

Clever Christmas Tree Watering Systems

We always use a live cut Christmas tree in our home, so every year around this time I get mildly obsessed about figuring out clever ways to water my Christmas tree without climbing under the tree, sticking my fingers in dirty water and then trying to pour just the right amount of water in...
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The Best Way To Bag Leaves

Best Leaf Bagging Tools

It’s fall, which means football, Thanksgiving fun and falling leaves. There are literally hundreds of different ways to rake and collect leaves in your yard from chipper vacs to tractor bags to leaf blowers, but that’s only half the battle when it comes to cleaning up your yard. If you live in a community...
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How To Fix a Squeaky Door Hinge

How To Fix A Squeaky Door Hinge

Squeaking doors and squeaky door hinges are common problems that everyone has experienced in a house or apartment at one time or another. We generally have two ways of dealing with these annoying squeaks: we either learn to ignore them or we squirt some sort of grease or lubricant on the hinges and hope...
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Learn About Home Improvements On Twitter

Twitter Home Improvement

I just wanted to let everyone know that I now I have home improvement Twitter account that I hope to begin updating a lot more frequently than I have been. For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter, it’s a sort of “micro-blogging” site and service that allows you to broadcast out short text messages...
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Amazon’s Secret Online Tool and Hardware Stores

Amazon.com Hardware Store

When you think of large online home improvement and hardware stores you probably think of the big box stores but the one place you may not think of is the infamous Amazon.com! Sure, they sell books and CDs and DVDs and all sorts of electronic gadgets and widgets, but they also have some incredible...
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Planning A Basement Remodel

Planning A Basement Remodel

My basement finishing project is almost done! I took part of my unfinished basement and updated the partially finished room and completely framed out and finished another small room. I have lots of photos and lots of different ideas I want to get down about my experience with finishing my basement myself. I’ve made...
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Big Uses For A Little Hammer

The Short Hammer

Okay, it isn’t often that I actually get excited enough about a single hand tool to actually write an entire post about it, but I just wanted to say that my favorite new hand tool from the past year has got to be my stubby hammer. If you don’t have a stubby hammer (or...
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Home Improvements With A Baby In The House

Home Improvements With A Baby In The House

I know, this isn’t the kind of post you would normally find a site about home improvements, but I’ve been giving it a lot of thought lately. My wife and I welcomed our second child, a beautiful little daughter, into our family back in July and we’ve all been slowly getting acclimated to a...
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How To Install Vinyl Gutters

How To Install Vinyl Gutters

Last year I replaced most of my home’s old aluminum rain gutters with vinyl rain gutters (some people call them “plastic gutters”). My previous seamless aluminum gutters were at the end of their life, falling off my house and bent beyond usefulness after years of being dented and dinged by ladders, falling branches and...
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Make Your Own Removable Wall Panel

Removeable Wall Panel

Sometimes when you’re working on a home improvement project you need to throw away the rules and get a little creative. I recently had to do this when I was refinishing my basement and had to frame out a room while still allowing easy access to a drain clean out. I could have just...
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What To Do About Brown Grass

What To Do About Brown Grass

Okay, what is the photo on the right? Is it a photo from Africa’s Serengeti National Park? It is the remains of a foolish attempt to grow a lawn in the Arizona Desert? Maybe it’s a farm that specializes in growing hay? Sadly, it is none of those things. It is, unfortunately, my back...
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