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Home Improvement Tricks

How To Tell If Your Air Conditioner Is Working Or Broken

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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