Home Improvement
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A Waiting Room Fly Problem Needs More Than A Can Of Spray
The office manager at a Ft Myers family practice kept a can of wasp spray in the same drawer as…
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One Downpour Traced A Basement Backup Back To The Lateral
The family got home from a cookout on a Saturday night in late August and smelled the basement from the…
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Clay Soil Decides A Septic System Before House Plans Do
The footings are in on four acres of inherited pasture outside Lone Jack, the framing lumber is stacked under a…
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The Joints You Made A Decade Ago Are Talking Now
A joint that has held for ten years is not proof the work was right. Weekend plumbing gets tested slowly,…
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Nine Door Knockers In Ten Days And One Roof
The fastest way to sort nine strangers on your porch is to work out which of them existed before the…
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Getting Cooling Into An Upstairs Bedroom Before The Next Heat Stretch
The fix for an upstairs bedroom reading 88 degrees at ten at night is not a third window unit. It…
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Four Patches In Twelve Years Cost More Than One New Roof
Replace it. On a wind-exposed farmhouse that has already taken four patches in twelve years, a fifth patch is not…
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Twelve Days Of Living In A House Getting New Siding
The dumpster landed in our driveway on a Sunday evening in July, which is how our two kids found out…
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An In Home Business Cannot Wait Three Days For AC Repair
The cheapest air conditioner repair is almost never the one with the lowest hourly rate. For anyone running a business…
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Field Notes From Coating a Dallas Cold Storage Roof
The compressors ran all morning. The compressors ran all night. By the middle of last July the operations manager at…
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