Lawn and Garden


Should You Cover Your Air Conditioner During The Winter? - 12/04/2009

Things To Remember When Buying LED Christmas Lights - 11/13/2009

House Numbers Plaque Review - 11/07/2009

Control Carpenter Bees With Copper Mesh - 10/03/2009

Late Summer Is A Great Time For Home Improvements - 09/19/2009

How To Spread Mulch - 06/12/2009

How To Remove and Replace Lawn Mower Blades - 05/20/2009

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

Scotts EZ Seed Coupon and Preview - 05/05/2009

When Is The Best Time To Plant Grass? - 04/13/2009

Why A Pressure Treated Wood Fence is Worth The Money - 02/10/2009

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

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

My Troy-Bilt Yard Chipper Vacuum Review - 10/13/2008

Quick Railroad Tie Flower Beds - My Last Summer Outdoor Home Improvement Project - 09/22/2008

Seven Quick and Easy Home Improvement Projects for the Fall - 09/08/2008

How To Install and Replace A Wooden Fence - 07/22/2008

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

Ten Signs That You Might Be Obsessed with Your Lawn - 04/10/2008

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

Oldcastle’s Ugliest Patio Contest! - 08/03/2007

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

How To Build Your Own Dirt and Stone Screen Sifter…with Wheels! - 06/04/2007

My Ugly Backyard: Step 1 - Removing the Dirt from the Stone - 05/25/2007

My Ugly Backyard Can Be Seen From Outer Space - 04/28/2007

Troubleshooting and Starting Your Lawnmower this Spring - 04/10/2007

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

How to Winterize Your Gas Lawnmower - 11/14/2006

Should You Cover Your Air Conditioner During The Winter?

Filed under: Exterior, Fall Leaves, Lawn and Garden - 04 Dec 2009

It’s cool in most of the country now and that means it’s time to go through the last few steps needed to get your home ready for winter. For those of you who have window AC units you should almost definitely take them out and store them properly inside. However, the question of whether you need to cover a central AC unit still remains a murky one, with a lot of “heated” debate on both sides.

Things To Remember When Buying LED Christmas Lights

Filed under: Green Home improvements, Interior, Lawn and Garden - 13 Nov 2009

The Christmas shopping season has begun early this year in most stores, and that can especially be seen in a lot of home improvement stores. Home improvement stores are usually aiming for two holiday markets: the person shopping for that perfect holiday gift as well as the homeowner who is looking for new decorations to be used before the holiday. A lot of the larger hardware stores go all out during the holiday season, carrying a wider selection of lights and electric Christmas decorations than most other retail stores. …

House Numbers Plaque Review

Filed under: Exterior, Lawn and Garden, New Home Products - 07 Nov 2009

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!

We replaced our old house numbers with something a little more modern.

Our old house numbers sign before we painted our house.Our previous house numbers were more than likely original to our house: they were black metal letters that were screwed …

Control Carpenter Bees With Copper Mesh

Filed under: Exterior, Lawn and Garden - 03 Oct 2009

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 as the burrow from which eggs are hatched. Wooden decks, wood shingles, dead trees and wooden house eaves and fascia are all prime targets for carpenter bee holes. The holes that the carpenter bees drill will rarely cause any sort of structural damage, …

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