Tag Archives: Exterior

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  Pressure Washer Rules of Play

  Posted on May 6, 2024 by mikew in Fix It & Use It

  Guidance Using the Popular Spring Home Owner Cleaning Device The best of every child’s world is joined in the ever-important pressure washer! Anyone who has grabbed the plastic wand shimmering with pent-up power knows the brilliance of a gas-powered engine, water hose and Star Wars photon-torpedo blast. This spring essential is being borrowed, rented and […]

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  Ways to make your painting project pop!

  Posted on April 20, 2020 by mikew in Fix It & Use It

  The upkeep and painting of our house siding is a big deal. There is nothing that will cause a more drastic improvement in the appearance of our house. Years can be erased from the stylistic appearance and years of longevity can be added with the well done painting project. If only the same could be […]

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  What is “LP” Siding?

  Posted on September 10, 2019 by mikew in Fix It & Use It

  When clients or real estate agents hear that a house has LP siding there is a lot of concern. Let me explain few things that these folks have found helpful. First, this is a manufactured material made from wood-fibers (ground up trees) and a resin glue that holds its together. It is pressed together, cured […]

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  How small can mice go?

  Posted on August 8, 2016 by mikew in Fix It & Use It

  The only pets I had as a child were gerbils. These are those creatures that are best in a cage or plastic tube and terrifying if scurrying under the kitchen fridge. I remember coming home from a short vacation to discover with my parents the gerbil cage was empty. Both of them were gone. Somehow we managed to recover […]

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  Hot vent hazard – look but don’t touch!

  Posted on May 23, 2016 by mikew in Fix It & Use It

      There’s a lot of newer homes built with gas insert fireplaces. Rather then constructing a chimney through the roof contractors are venting these outside the exterior wall. This is a much cheaper way to build a home and accomplishes the essential task of exhausting gas fumes outside of the home. But there is […]

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