5 years ago I painted a teak loveseat rocker and table on my front outdoor porch. Everyone advised me not to. It was a big job - cleaning, sanding, laquer primer and 2 coats of paint. It still looks...
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The home being a bungalow. Noticing a 3C differential between ends of the house, and not wanting to heat one end at ludicrous energy prices, what's most cost effective way to get air to move around...
Looks nice but no spec's on absolute accuracy so no way to know if are any better than the run-of-the-mill cheap consumer thermometers Pete's already tried. Lee Valley probably can supply data and...
I have a question about the gas lines in my home. I am getting new lines installed to run a gas fireplace and a natural gas BBQ. I have a 2" pipe coming in the house, and there are two 1" branches...
Anyone out there with an EV got a multi-meter with a clamp to measure current draw at boot up? Wondering just how small a battery pack I can get away with as “boot up battery” in the event of a...
We may be in need of a 7kW EV charging point in the fairly near future. Anyone got any advice on makes, installers (I assume it's not DiY to a competent DiYer), what to avoid, what to ensure? It's all...
My oil heater starts but dont stay on & my green light keeps flashing. It's set to reach a certain temperature & once it below that temperature the heater is suppose to reach that set temperature but...
I've got about 40 lbs. of 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper (about 4 banker's boxes) that have financial information on them, that I'd like to shred, but shredding costs have gone up and the cost would be...
Given all the warnings about possible blackouts this winter, I thought it might be worth doing a bit of preparation to make it easy to hookup power to the house should there be a power cut that lasts...
After what seems like the whole year... possibly because I started when the combi. properly died in April; after much head scratching and many challenges, I have sucessfully ignited the wood burner...
I have a tool shed at our cabin which has been broken into twice. There is an alarm to scare off folks after they break in, and that has been successful, but I would like to add a motion sensor flood...
I want to add some tees to my heating pipes, but I don't want to drain the system down. There are things like: I wondered about them. In particular, apparently they cut a flap of copper pipe where the...
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