Home Improvement
Daylight Saving Time Ends November 1, So Get The Porch Light Pointing The Right Way
After November 1 you'll be walking up the front walk in the dark again, probably with groceries, and if you put a motion light up over ...
How To Choose A Standby Generator Location On A Pittsburgh Lot
The storm came through on a Tuesday afternoon. By Wednesday half the city was on candles and the hardware stores had run out of extensi...
What If Your Old Furnace Was Wrong For Your House All Along
The furnace quits in January. The installer comes out. He reads the label on the old one and quotes a new one the same size. Done by Th...
Ottawa Has Two Window Seasons, and the Second One Is Now
There is a week in September in Ottawa when the light changes. The sun is coming in lower through the front windows in the afternoon, a...
You Have 2 Weeks Left Before the Madison Frost – What an Ice Dam Is Really Telling You?
It's 2 weeks. That is about how long Madison has left before the first frost, which lands around the first week of October most years, ...
What Burglars Told Researchers Actually Stops Them
There is a study I had heard quoted so many times by alarm companies that I assumed it was a sales line, and then I read it. A criminol...
What Holds Your Storage Up: Wall Weights, Bed Gaps and Shed Bases
The Shelf Was Never the Problem. The Wall Was.
It happens in the same way every time.
Somebody buys a nice shelf on a Saturday. T...
The Smart Home Advice You Are Reading Was Not Written for a New York Apartment
The first smart home purchase in most New York apartments is a thermostat. It is the thing every guide puts at the top of the list, it ...
How to Furnish a Dubai Apartment From Another Country
No move in permit means no delivery. Security turns the truck away at the lobby, and no one in the building has the authority to wave i...
How to Make a Home Safer and More Comfortable for an Aging Veteran
The money and the modifications come from 2 different VA programs. Mixing them up is the most common mistake families make
Most fam...
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