I recently had a problem with a particularly irritating bi-fold door. This door has given me trouble since the beginning. To start out I had to make the door 35″ wide to fit the opening, then I had to cut about 2″ off the bottom (this is a job for another post:). [...]

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I have been asked on several occasions why and when I should use wood conditioner. Wood conditioner is used to prepare soft wood to be stained. Soft wood generally accepts the stain that is applied to it in a fairly disorganized manner, dark in some areas then light in other areas. Wood [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!…Don’t forget a few safety tips when you are cooking your turkey in the fryer this year.
-A fryer without a thermostat can heat past the oils combustion temperature so keep an eye on your oil and buy a thermometer.
-Don’t put too much oil in the fryer…the oil can overflow and cause a fire when [...]

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Do you have limited space in your laundry room? Space in our house is a high price commodity that is used to the best of our ability (not really but I like to think so:). I saw a hang-on-your door ironing board at my local home improvement warehouse, and thought I could do [...]

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Hey everyone!…most of you have seen this one on my site before (it was actually a paper I wrote for Tech Writing in school). I am scrapping the bath page and just posting this with everything else. It seems to be easier to find that way. Installing a toilet is one of [...]

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I had someone ask me to post something about the pink stain on their tile grout the other day. I have done a little internet research on the mysterious pink stain and found that it is a bacteria that likes wet areas (like your shower). The name of this bacteria is Serratia marcescens, it [...]

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One common problem with doors is loose hinge screws…Screws that have over time torn up the wood that originally held them in place. If your door snags on the latch side it is common to find several loose screws on the hinge side. If you have this problem, this is what you can [...]

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Fortunately most home repairs we will work on will not include an extension ladder. This post is for the exception, and written intentionally during the Christmas light hanging season. Extension ladders are probably the most deadly tool you have in your possession. The CPSC says that misuse of ladders cause 164,000 emergency [...]

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I bought this live-in fixer-upper a couple of years ago with the partial consent of my wife. When I say live-in fixer-upper I mean it was right on the fence of livable for my wife’s taste. She was envisioning a new house with new house smell, new appliances, new carpet, just the basic [...]

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Ever reached break time with no good light to read your book? When I designed this bathroom I did not envision that it would need as much light as it does. I put the toilet in and thought a hanging light would make this area seem a little warmer…hopefully the light would make [...]

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