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How To Deal With Heavy Snow On Roof In Maryland
My brother has 20" of snow on a 5/12 roof in Maryland, and rain has been forecasted for Tuesday. Is the greatest danger from snow weight or from ice damming? What would be the best strategy for the...
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(OT) What kind of car did president Gerald Ford drive?
What kind of car did president Gerald Ford drive?
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Prayer for the snow storm (add some text, and send it back through the list)
Dear God, please keep people healthy through this storm. Guide them through snow covered streets, keep their hearts beating as they shovel and snow move. Bless the snow plow drivers, that they may...
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emergency Roadside Assistance app alternative ?
opinions on this service, please [my toyota roadside service is free for 2 years, so i will be exploring my options, after the 2 yrs] Now there's an app that connects users with the quickest and...
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8 years ago
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Electric Blanket Problem Solved
I bought an electric blanket, used it for 2 months and it stopped heating up. I swapped controllers with another of the same blanket and isolated the problem to the controller. I opened it up, didn't...
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Snow Blower Seems To Have Lost Power ?
12 HP Honda single - BCS walkbehind, single-stage snowblower attachment. Crude as it is, this thing has always been something of a beast.... chewing it's way through all kinds of stuff. Had it out for...
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My Snow Shoveling Solution For The Deck
After 25+ years of shoveling my deck by either forcing the snow through the railings or lifting it over, I finally decided that I was getting too old for that. The deck is 6' feet above the yard and...
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Chimney Inspection
My condo association requires a chimney inspection every two years. The bus iness managers say the inspector need have no certification nor licensure. At a minimum, I want whoever does this to check...
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8 years ago
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Jonas storm south east USA, hope everyone is okay
Sounds really bad. Hope everyone is okay. 5:28 p.m. EST: Power outages are starting to increase rapidly in North Carolina, where about 104,000 customers are now without power according to a survey of...
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Electrical Safety Quiz
* Electrical Safety Quiz * You're unplugging an electrical cord, when suddenly one of the prongs breaks off inside the outlet. What would you do? (Select one or more below): ---- 1. Panic and run out...
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(OT) WTF is this?
They keep putting these extremely retarded commericals on TV for "Candy Crush". Apparently they are some sort of game for smartphones. (That' all I can make of them). I dont have (or want) a...
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Q: The wattage for electric blankets?
Do you think that an electric blanket that has 100 Watts on each side is warmer than an electric blanket that is 180 Watts altogether?
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should paint come off with a razor blade?
We want to repaint a plastered room. It has 2 (3?) previous coats of uncertain age. Some paint is coming off, at least partly due to water from a long-ago roof repair. I scraped it pretty...
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Bosch SHP65T55UC dishwasher E15 error code:
On the Bosch dishwasher if error code 15 is observed it may be due to the w ater fill level exceeding the overflow limit. This may be due to a malfunct ion in the Bosch part # 752738 or generic part #...
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Ancient CFL
I had a yellow CFL in use as a porch light for centuries now. It finally died yesterday and I replaced it today. Strange looking thing - looks like a regular incandescent bulb but with the sides...
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