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Soda Blasting
Wondering if anyone has first hand experience with soda blasters? I have a sand blaster and find lots of uses for it around the property. I usually use glass beads, aluminum oxide or crushed walnut...
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Do the Toyota Camry headlight polishers actually work well?
Its a matter of perspective. As a kid in school, I'd go with a polish/restoration kit As an adult with a decent job I'd go with new lenses. As an adult with a very good income I'd opt for a new car.
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New Water Heater & a LONG Cautionary Tale
+1 In a modern house with multiple ones, it can take some time to locate which one is beeping. My beef is I've seen new ones that are AC wired with battery backup where the things start chirping in...
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Mice Between Floors
They are in my two-story townhome. I hear them when I am downstairs. Also o ne of the cats has been observed in stalking mode in the kitchen for hours at night. I plan to address this via a light...
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No cash accepted
Clear glas must be clear. When our town started recycling at the dump they has a container for clear, another for colored. One colored bottle would contaminate a big container of clear. There was...
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why is my mobile home furnace kicks on even though the thermostat is set to low and the cool/heat switch st to off
my blower runs all the time and the furnace kicks on even though the thermostat is set to low and switch set to off
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Wall switch won't turn off bathroom ceiling fan
Replace the switch.
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Flame Weeding: Why Not Burn Them Until They're Gone?
... nobody eats them or are they inedible to people? mow them repeatedly. they'll go away. smother them also would likely work. clear plastic over them, if the area gets any sun that would likely fry...
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6 years ago
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Solution found to electrical smell in the air
A while back I mentioned something about an issue where I could smell something electrical in the air. It was discussed as maybe being ozone in the air or something wrong with the wiring. We could...
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Wave tower and 'portable' air purifier
I have had both the installed Wave system (the tower) and the stand-alone air purifier since last August (2016). Since that time I have developed mildew on basement furniture, a prevailing odor of cat...
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tile grout, is it hard enough to stand up to the weather?
later this year i may have several pallets of old bags of grout (for free) that i can use to fill in some erosion or along the edge of the drive. i'm curious if it will be hard enough to stand up to...
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6 years ago
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Weird stuff on my yard
Have some things on my yard that I am not sure what it is. I have gone to two garden shops and got two mutually exclusive responses. After rains the last couple of weeks, I have a cottony cover on my...
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1st electricity-free AC developed from recycled bottles!
In a lot of places around the world people don't have access to some of the luxuries we take for granted: electricity, internet, running water, or even regular supplies of food and clean water. Add to...
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Patching bare spots in the yard for Dummies
What about the other kind of grass .. how about a post to grow-your-own - marijuana - all of Canada will be freely growing it next year ! John T.
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Water heater t&p
A guy from our city gas told my wife this T&P line needs to go down. I just need to run it directly to where it enters the wall, without going up, correct? Also, the other photo shows where the line...
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