Clever Tips and Tricks


Using A Cell Phone For Home Improvements - 03/02/2010

Save Money By Making Your Own Air Filter Replacements - 01/26/2010

Gas Furnace Starting Intermittently - Clean The Flame Sensor - 01/05/2010

Cheap and Easy Way To Store Your Christmas Lights - 12/28/2009

Make Your Own Simple Christmas Tree Watering System - 12/18/2009

How To Remove A Stuck Shower Knob or Faucet Handle - 12/09/2009

Quick Fall Home Improvements For That Extra Daylight Savings Hour - 10/27/2009

Making Sidewalk Art With A Power Washer - 09/16/2009

Improving the Cooling Power of Your Central Air Conditioner - 08/14/2009

Planting Grass Seed In the Rain - 05/06/2009

How To Hide TV Wires In Your Wall - 04/23/2009

Buy Cheap Tools Online With Daily Sale Websites - 04/21/2009

Home Improvement Tax Deductions and Credits - 03/23/2009

Hiding TV Wires Outside Your Walls - 02/19/2009

Is Your Smoke Detector Beeping and Chirping with New Batteries? - 01/30/2009

An Easy Way To Fill A Lawn and Leaf Bag - Without A Leaf Bag Holder - 11/28/2008

How To Make A Gutter Cleaning Vacuum - 11/25/2008

How To Get Free Lowes Hardware Store Coupons - 11/18/2008

50 Fall Home Improvement Projects You Can Do With Your Daylight Savings Hour - 10/31/2008

Start That Big Home Improvement Project Now - 08/20/2008

Top Five Summer Home Improvement Projects - 07/14/2008

Central Air Conditioner Not Working? Try These Simple Troubleshooting Steps - 06/06/2008

Ceiling Fan Direction Makes A Room Cooler or Warmer - 05/08/2008

How To Remove Black Urine Stains From Hardwood Floors… For Under a Dollar - 04/02/2008

A Magazine Devoted To Designing New Home Products Out of Recycled Junk - 02/19/2008

You Can Use Your Christmas Lights All Year - 01/06/2008

How To Plant Grass Quickly and Easily - 09/04/2007

Buy Cheap Tools and Home Improvement Supplies Online - 07/25/2007

How To Care For and Maintain Your Central Air Conditioner - 07/12/2007

Great Home Design Ideas and Steps On How To Build…anything? - 07/04/2007

How To Hide Your Flat Screen TV in Plain Site - 06/28/2007

Lawn Mowing Tips and Tricks to Keep Your Lawn Green - 06/22/2007

Super Guide To Glues and Adhesives and How To Remove Them - 06/12/2007

How to Measure Anything With a Digital Camera - 02/13/2007

Turn Your Lawn Mower Into A Leaf Vacuum and Shredder - 11/24/2006

Using A Cell Phone For Home Improvements

Filed under: Clever Tips and Tricks - 02 Mar 2010

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 last year and I can now honestly say I don’t do much work on my house without it anymore. Most smartphone and cell phones can assist in DIY home improvement projects in a variety of ways, but here are some ways you can …

Save Money By Making Your Own Air Filter Replacements

Filed under: Clever Tips and Tricks, Interior - 26 Jan 2010

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 filters were getting a bit expensive for my tastes, so I decided to see if I could just make my own air filters for a fraction of the cost….

Gas Furnace Starting Intermittently - Clean The Flame Sensor

Filed under: Clever Tips and Tricks, Interior - 05 Jan 2010

My gas furnace is only a couple years old, so I wasn’t real happy when it 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 of chilly in here…”

A gas furnace electronic flame sensor.

You can actually buy replacement flame sensors online.
We’d check the thermostat to …

Cheap and Easy Way To Store Your Christmas Lights

Filed under: Clever Tips and Tricks, Interior - 28 Dec 2009

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.

Easy way to store Christmas lights.I’ve tried several different clever containers and methods for storing my Christmas lights from one year to the next. Some work better than others, but I was looking for a simpler way. I’ve tried putting the light …

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