One of the best and least expensive ways to lower your utility bills all year round is to replace the manual thermostat in your home with an electronic programmable thermostat. Installing a programmable thermostat is not a difficult home improvement project if you follow the directions for your model of thermostat closely. If you’re not comfortable doing it then most heating and air conditioner repair companies will install it for you at a very reasonable price.

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Troy-Bilt has always been a well-known brand when it comes to lawn mowers, but this year they’ve come out with a new line of lawn mowers that feature their new “TriAction Cutting System™” which is a collection of improvements designed to cut grass and mulch grass better than other mowers.

The Troy-Bilt TB230: One of a new line of TriAction Lawn MowersA month or so ago Troy-Bilt contacted me after noticing how often I used my Troy-Bilt …

I was finally able to use my $5 coupon for Scotts EZ Seed this year at a local hardware store, so I decided to follow through on my original plan of running a side-by-side review of Scotts EZ Seed Turf Builder product vs my own fast method for growing grass.

Scotts EZ Seed is now available from Amazon.com!Scotts claims their EZ Seed product can grow grass on a …

Trying to find gifts for the man or woman who enjoys doing a lot of his or her own home improvement projects can be challenging. Home improvement can be a very creative endeavor at times (painting, landscaping, planning your next project) and also very exacting and mechanical in nature (electrical work, plumbing, refinishing furniture). There is a right way and a wrong way to do things, but between those two extremes there is often a lot of room for creativity. So what sort of gifts can you buy for the person who’s part artist and part scientist …