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Exterior Home Projects

The Best Way To Get Rid of Dandelions

The Best Way To Get Rid of Dandelions

It wouldn’t be spring without the annual dandelion outbreak, turning green lawns and empty flower beds into seas of yellow and white flowers. Dandelions get a bad rap because they are one of the larger, more visible weeds that almost everyone has to deal with at one time or another. Dandelions can grow about...
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Snow Blower Tips and Tricks

snow blower

When snow comes there are few gasoline powered tools that are as appreciated as a snow blower. Shoveling snow can be good exercise but it can also be too dangerous for some people and too difficult for others. Thick snow can fall at any time in most parts of the country and a mild...
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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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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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House Numbers Plaque Review

House Numbers Plaque Review

This summer my wife and I spent a fair amount of time and energy on increasing the “curb appeal” of our home and the last official exterior home improvement we’re performed this year was purchasing one of those fancy new metal house number plaques! Our old house numbers sign before we painted our house....
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Control Carpenter Bees With Copper Mesh

Control Carpenter Bees With Copper Mesh

Carpenter bees are large bees that are often mistaken for bumble bees and are known for their destructive and annoying habit of burrowing into dead wood. For homeowners around the world this means that any piece of exposed wood on the outside of home could become riddled with small almost bullet-like holes that serve...
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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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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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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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How To Spread Mulch

How To Spread Mulch

I’ve been spending the last couple weekends creating some new landscaping around my house and one of the projects I’m dedicated to doing this year is properly mulching my flower beds and trees. In the past I’ve tried other forms of weed control like putting down plastic and even some fancy chemicals, but I’m...
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