Well Well Well............................... 3 holes in the backyard, #2 Well, some days you can't find any blogs to comment on. No blogs to comment on. That's daunting. Sure there are lots of blogs out there but a huge number of them are listings and of course that's to be expected. But many a
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05/21/2011
Well Well Well...............................3 holes in the backyard #1 Well, some days you may not feel like writing a blog. I don't know . You're tired. You don't have any ideas. That's the way I am today. You know?.. Gee ..how could you tell? Yeah, OK no photos for one thing. Yup . That's a
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05/20/2011
A Man's Home Is His Castle, Right? Well that's the old school way of saying it. Saying "One's home is ones' castle" may be grammatically and politically correct (gender neutral, for all that.) But it doesn't 'ring' true. Doesn't sound right. So, I say 'a man's home is his castle'. While for a fe
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05/19/2011
Just A Handful Of Nails? On A Million Dollar House? Yup! A handful of nail is the answer to "what's holding the deck on?" That's pretty shocking on a building valued at a million plus. The nails are Ramset type, a heavy duty concrete nail that is shot into place with a 22 cartridge. They are
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05/18/2011
E-plaid? Is It The Trend Leader? Email Has Defined Snail-Mail. Is E-Plaid the Same? You know what plaid is, right? Those patterns championed by the Scotts. Defining clans and families. Well that may be so but most of us hear 'you not wearing that today!' when we put on that nice plaid shirt give
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05/17/2011
Don't Do As I Do, Do As I Say!............... Don't open the electrical panels. That's my job (or your electricians). We have the training, but there is always a degree of risk. So don't open your panels! Period. Around here the electrical utilities normally lock-out the larger voltage switching
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05/16/2011
Wether it is hot water equipment like this article discusses or mulit-glazed window units or any other 'new/better' system or technology, it is definitely worth the exercise to look at the numbers. 1 - Calculate the savings verses the cost to buy and install and then 2 - compare the time it wil
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05/15/2011
The FLIP side of the RENO is RESTORE. A FLIP is a CON even when it stands on edge. As far as I'm concerned flipping is a four letter word. It's a cheat and cover up. Just cleaned and freshened up to show better and sell at an up tick. Buy low, clean up, and sell high. The real clean up is the
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05/15/2011
You found eves trough guttering inside! Where? An OMG File. Oh yeah. There it is. And where is it? NO. Not in the attic.! Yup. That's where I found it. The grey stuff you see is cellulose insulation. The insulation you see in the gutte
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05/14/2011
Daddy, Why does that house have bags under its' eyes? ........Sill'yness If windows are the eyes of a house then damaged or stained zones under the windows are 'bags' under the eyes. So the 'bag' that you see here is simply wet masonry. It is wet from melting snow that has been sitting on t
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05/13/2011
