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5 Tips for Keeping Your House Looking Good
Cleaning and maintaining your home can improve its appearance and reflect better on you. Discover five tips for keeping your house looking good.
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4 Window Care Projects You Can Do Yourself
Explore four DIY window care projects, including cleaning, caulking, painting, and weatherstripping. These projects make your windows beautiful and functional.
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5 Reasons Many Do It Yourself Projects Fail
You saw it on YouTube; how hard can it be? Hold your horses, cowpokes! Before you tear things apart, consider five reasons many do-it-yourself projects fail.
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Termites vs Ants: Everything You Need To Know
At first glance, there appears to be little difference between termites and ants. This can be an issue as ants are generally just a nuisance. Although you don’t want to see ants crawling across your home, they don’t carry disease and present no threat to you. Of course, we’re talking about the standard ant here, not the more aggressive and potentially dangerous type of ant, the fire ant. In contrast, a termite is also unlikely to carry diseases. However, seeing a termite in your home means that the wood in your property is being eaten. That’s a much more serious concern as, left long enough, the termites can eat enough…
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Four Maintenance Tips To Improve Your Home
Keeping your home in a good state is important both to your health and well-being as a household. There’s nothing better than having a home that you are proud of and that you can relax in at the end of a hard working day or week. With that said, here are four maintenance tips to improve your home. Keep It Clean Keeping your home clean is going to help prevent anything from getting damaged. When it comes to maintenance, the more cleaning you can do, the less likely it will be that one of your appliances or something in your home gets damaged. When it comes to cleaning, try to…
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Important Gutter Maintenance Tips You Need To Follow
If you want to keep your home in good condition, it’s important to consider the danger posed by different weather conditions. The weather can affect your home in a lot of different ways and if you want to avoid any serious maintenance issues, it’s vital that you take steps to protect from the wind, rain, and even the sun. Maintaining your gutters is one of the most important home maintenance jobs because they drain water away from the home. If the gutters are not doing their job correctly, water will pool up around the roof and eventually start to seep into the walls. This can cause serious damp problems throughout…
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My Idaho Update
I know it’s been awhile since I have done an Idaho update especially the progress on the house. So; here goes! Get a cup of coffee and get ready for some whining! If you are new here; The Husband and I just moved from California to Sandpoint Idaho. It’s quite the change. From the people (who are SO NICE!!) to the weather! The last month has seen 100° + days (I didn’t think Idaho got this hot!) today is actually cool (downright chilly!) with heavy wind gusts that are bending the trees around our house. (Keep bending…. Please! No fall down. No fall into house. Please!) I decided that while…
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Gardening and A Fish Named Hardy
Unless you are new here, you know that we recently made a HUGE move!! From southern California to the very northern tip of Idaho. Sandpoint, Idaho to be exact. A place where it SNOWS. A lot! That will an important fact later on in my gardening story. The house we bought has a million dollar view! Absolutely spectacular from sun up to sundown and even the night sky is amazing. Unfortunately, the house and surrounding 10 acres has been neglected for about the last 10 years. That means a lot of work needs to be done. We’ve hired contractors to do all the main heavy duty things like…