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 aged appearance and years of longevity can be added with a 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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