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I Sold My House In 4 Day With These 5 Cheap Home Improvements

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I haven’t been working on many home improvements lately because I have some exciting news: we’re moving! After seven years of fixing up this old ranch house we’ve gotten to the point where we needed to begin doing the “big” things like remodel our kitchen, gut our main bathroom and maybe even add on...
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How To Tell If Your Air Conditioner Is Working Or Broken

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Your AC air temp should ideally be below 68 degrees.

It almost seems common for air conditioners to break down and stop working, often at the most inconvenient times and during the longest stretches of extremely hot weather. A broken air conditioner can actually be incredibly dangerous, especially around older people who may not have recognized that the AC has even stopped working. Sitting...
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How To Turn Off A Whole House Humidifier During the Summer

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How To Turn Off A Whole House Humidifier During the Summer

If you live in a climate that gets cold, dry winters then your home might be equipped with a whole house, or central, humidifier. These whole house humidifiers are designed to put moisture into the air during winter months when you’re running your forced air heat. The humidifiers are usually added on to the...
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How To Remove Floor Tile

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Removing floor tile.

If you’re going to remodel a kitchen or upgrade a bathroom in your house then chances are that you’re going to be faced with the job of removing the old tile from a floor and replacing it with something more modern. Removing the tile from a floor can be a long, messy and sometimes...
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How To Remove Wallpaper

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Removing wallpaper is one of those messy and tedious jobs that nearly every homeowner grumbles through at least once. Most people tend to do it right after they move into a new home and want to remove the wallpaper from a previous owner or they want to do it right before they move out...
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Home Improvements With A Baby In The House

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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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Deciding When To Pay Someone To Complete A Home Improvement Project

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Deciding When To Pay Someone To Complete A Home Improvement Project

As you may have guessed I rather enjoy working on my home and running out the hardware store every weekend to tackle new and different projects around my house. I like having a sense of accomplishment at the end of a long weekend and I like making my 50 year old house a little...
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Using A Smart Phone For Home Improvements

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Using A Smart Phone For Home Improvements

When you think of “essential home improvement tools” I bet your cell phone doesn’t rank up there with “hammer” or “screwdriver” but it probably should! I am a firm believer in using a cell phone or smartphone like an iPhone or Blackberry for small and large home improvement jobs. I started using an iPhone...
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Save Money By Making Your Own Air Filter Replacements

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Make Your Own Air Filter

We have some small room air filters in the bedroom of my home which we run pretty regularly to help cut down on some of the dust in the house that’s generated from an active family, two cats and an old force hot air heating system. The little air purifiers work pretty well, the...
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Gas Furnace Not Starting or Starting Intermittently – How To Fix It

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My gas furnace is only a couple years old, so I wasn’t real happy when our gas furnace began operating intermittently, sometimes starting when it should and sometimes not. We would be sitting in the living room playing a board game or just walking around and one of us would say, “Hey, it’s kind...
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Cheap and Easy Way To Store Your Christmas Lights

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The sales and marketing of Christmas lights and decorations is only superseded by the even larger sales and marketing of wild and clever plastic containers and gadgets that are meant to be used for the storing Christmas lights and decorations. I’ve tried several different clever containers and methods for storing my Christmas lights from...
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Make Your Own Simple Christmas Tree Watering System

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Christmas Tree Watering System

Like a lot of people right now, I have a cut live Christmas tree in my living room right now. It’s decorated and covered with lights and I have a nice little tree skirt and the whole things looks green and great for the moment, though I know that if I don’t water it...
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Making Sidewalk Art With A Power Washer

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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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Improving the Cooling Power of Your Central Air Conditioner

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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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Planting Grass Seed In the Rain

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Planting Grass Seed In the Rain

Yes, you can plant grass seed in the rain! As I’ve alluded to before, I’m a big supporter of laying down grass seed when it’s raining or about to rain. Whether you’re simply over seeding your lawn for the year or you’re filling in some bare spots in your lawn, I think rainy days...
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Hiding TV Wires Outside Your Walls

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Hiding TV Wires Outside Your Walls

As flat screen televisions have become more popular, so have the innovative ways of hanging and mounting them. Years ago TV sets were so large and heavy they could only sit on the floor or on specially designed media centers, but today’s flat screen televisions, while being large, are also much thinner and lighter...
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Is Your Smoke Detector Beeping and Chirping with New Batteries?

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A beeping smoke detector may need replacing.

A constantly beeping smoke detector outside my bedroom recently taught me a little bit about battery-operated smoke detectors that I didn’t realize: In addition to replacing the smoke detector batteries every six months or so, you should also consider replacing the entire smoke detector every so often. This battery powered voice smoke detector is...
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Central Air Conditioner Not Working? Simple Troubleshooting Steps

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Our central air conditioner unit is over 15 years old and recently it hasn’t been working quite as reliably as we’d like. Even though I’ve been doing my best to care for my central air conditioner is appears that mine might on its way out. About once every couple of days now it simply...
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Ceiling Fan Direction Makes A Room Cooler or Warmer

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Ceiling Fan Direction Makes A Room Cooler or Warmer

We’ve had a few days of warm weather here on the East Coast lately and my wife and I have been running the ceiling fans in most of our rooms to keep the rooms cool without having to turn on our central air conditioner quite yet. Even though its been relatively mild outside we...
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Use Your Christmas Lights All Year

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Decorating with Christmas Lights

Like a lot of people I used this weekend to take down the Christmas decorations, take the Christmas tree out to the curb and generally put the house back into “post-holiday” status. It can be a lengthy process, taking all the decorations and lights and putting them back into boxes and packaging so they...
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How To Care For and Maintain Your Central Air Conditioner

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DIY Central Air Conditioner Maintenance

Now that summer is in full swing here in most of the United States my thoughts have turned to my central air conditioning unit and how thankful I am that I have it! My central AC unit is about ten years old and I’m going to have to start thinking about replacing it in...
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How To Hide Your Flat Screen TV in Plain Site

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Hide Your TV

I don’t yet have one of those super-duper big screen HD TVs for my house yet mostly because I don’t yet have a place to really put it. Right now I just have a 20 year old particleboard entertainment center along a large empty wall in my living room. I’m thinking about designing some...
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Guide to Super Glues and Adhesives

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Guide to Super Glues and Adhesives

If you ever walked down the glue and adhesive aisle of your local hardware store you’ll realize there are dozens, if not hundreds, of different kinds of glues, epoxies and adhesives available for almost every specialized application you can think of in home repair or otherwise. The sheer number of chemicals, bonding agents, tubes...
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Digital Camera Trick – Measure Anything!

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How To Measure With A Digital Camera

When I was putting up my Christmas lights a few months ago it struck me that I have no idea how long of a string a lights I’d really need because I didn’t really know how long my roof line was when I included the peak at the front of my house. I could...
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