Being in the drywall and texture business for over 25 years, I’ve learned how to remove ceiling popcorn virtually dust-free. Although the mess seems to be a monumental undertaking, it too can be made quite simple. With the proper preparation you can cut the cleanup time by 3/4’s using the following steps. Preparation is key! ...
You can find articles all over the Internet with ways on how to remove the smells from your garbage disposal. And, some of the recommended methods work very well. But, did you know that your disposal isn’t supposed to smell bad in the first place? It’s true! A garbage disposal is supposed to shred up ...
A parent’s number one concern when their child is around water is drowning, and for good reason. Hundreds of kids drown every year, some in their own home pools. That poses a problem. Your child can’t learn to swim if you’re always holding on to him or her, but if you don’t, they could go ...
A musty odor coming from the basement is extremely unpleasant, and no matter how clean your house is a musty basement odor makes a home seem dirty. You might not notice a musty odor in your home if you become accustomed to the odor, but other people who don’t live in your home will definitely ...
Fire bellied toads, green tree frogs and white’s tree frogs can be house in the same manner, using a vivarium. My sons are into 4-H and have been doing a wide variety of projects not only with nature and science but with pets. With their help, we created this small twenty gallon vivarium for frogs ...
So we just purchased our first house. Among many of the improvements yet to be made, our number one priority was the stench. What kind of stench? Cat pee. Lots and lots of cat pee. Unfortunately for the sellers, we think they could have banked around $30,000 more if they would have just removed the ...
If we could just heat our homes for free, the problem of a heat source would be solved. However, the cost of heating a home is a two-sided problem. The first is to heat the house for the least economical cost. Next, comes the need to heat the house for the least environmental cost. Both ...
I have a small house and the kitchen did not come with a dishwasher or even a space for me to put one in, without taking out very useful cabinet space. I was getting really tired of washing all my dishes by hand, especially in the summer when it was hot and I would be ...
After living in Boston and then three different apartments in Manhattan, I can tell you a thing or two about pest control. Mice, bugs and rats are all a part of living in a crowded urban area. Like me, if you are a resident of a big city, you may wake up one morning and ...
I live in upstate New York and wanted a storage shed for firewood. Normally I would stack the split wood and cover with a tarp, but after getting twelve feet of snow within ten days last winter, I didn’t want to wrestle with tarps again. I also didn’t want to suck up a tarp into ...
