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Get the Edge in Cleaning
You can't call it clean until you've edged!
Spring cleaning is more than just washing windows and vacuuming curtains (although it certainly is a part of it). It’s the little stuff that counts. Yes, just like God and the Devil, cleaning, too, is in ...
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Why You Cant Live Without Microfiber
Every now and then a product comes along that doesn’t just deliver on its promise, it over delivers. This is true of microfiber cleaning cloths, which are the best thing since soap and water. Really. Years ago, I kept hearing murmurs about micro...
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Bedroom Feng Shui: 8 Important Considerations
1.Color and design are critical.
Paint bedrooms with calm, soothing colors. Good color choices for bedrooms are skin colors: yellows, browns, taupes, pinks, or beige. Avoid blue or dark-colored ceilings, wallpaper with plants or flowers (a feng...
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The Importance of Your Front Door
The front door plays a very special role in feng shui. Often described as the "mouth of chi," the front door, is the entryway for energy into your home. Many people never use the actual front door, though, so they often ask if this affects their ...
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Is Your House the Right Color for Success?
Feng shui says that color choice can affect occupants' success
If your relationships are tired and money flies through your hands, your house might just be the wrong color. Maybe life is a constant struggle and you can't put your finger on the one...
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Living Room Feng Shui
How to Activate Your Entire House from the Living Room
No other room in the house offers the feng shui potential that the living room does. This room is central to family life and to feng shui. When it comes to feng shui, no other room can compare...
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How to Create an Ideal Kitchen
The kitchen is one of the most important places in the house.
This is where your creative juices at your work creating your new dishes or pastries.
Here are my thoughts of planning the ideal kitchen. Here are my kitchen design tips I have lea...
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Designing Your Kitchen for Your Budget
"How come it costs that much?" That must be one of the questions that I hear the most often when I submit price quotations for kitchen cabinetry to homeowners. Although it is true that cabinetry can be designed to be low-budget, middle-range, or hi...
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Successful Renovation
1. Planning Renovations
Any project will be more successful, given well-defined goals. In every household project, the following three points can be applied:
FORM: What do you want it to look like?
FUNCTION: What do you want it to do for you?...
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Downstairs With Farmer Tom
A reader wrote:
My wife and I have been building our house for just over three years now. We moved in on Nov.30, a year ago, and at that time there wasn't a single sheet of drywall up; all of it was in piles on the floor. The breakfast area in the ...
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Building the Smallest Room
When I read one reader's story about nailing a beam through the ladder rungs, and how her father cursed... and cursed, and cursed and cursed...
Well, I had to think of one day a few years ago... I was building a washroom by the back door, just arou...
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Home Improvement: Ten Pretty Good Rules
1. Never wrestle with your furnace; you both get dirty and the furnace doesn't care!
2. Never argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference!
3. It's easier to obtain forgiveness than it is permission!
4. Don't ask ...
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Home Inspection: The Inspection System
THE BIG PICTURE
The first step in inspecting a home is to examine the big picture for the home. Notice the area the home is located in. Are there other homes of similar age and construction details relative to the home you are inspecting? A com...
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Home Inspection: 22 Questions to Ask Any Home Inspection Company
Print this list for a handy reference, when you're interviewing home inspectors.
QUESTIONS
1. How long have you been in the home
inspection business?
2. How many resale home inspections has your
firm completed?
3. What qualifications does the in...
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Home Inspection: Pre-inspected Listings
The future of real estate?
* Home inspections have traditionally been for the benefit of the purchaser.
* Pre-inspected listings benefit all parties - purchasers, vendors and Realtors.
Deals are less likely to fall through.
Home inspectio...
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Home Inspection: Confirming Accessibility Requirements
Dear Home Seller,
Crawl spaces, attics, furnaces, electric panels... these are a few of the many places where a conscientious home inspector needs to venture, in order to perform a complete and accurate assessment of your house.
Please have your st...
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Home Inspector Career Info
The Road Warrior
In response to a flood of inquiries about getting into the home inspection business, we offer the following notes on becoming a Professional Home Inspector, which we hope are helpful in evaluation of this profession as a career obj...
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Electrical Systems: Insurance & Electrical
More and more frequently insurance companies are refusing to insure homes with 60 amp services, knob and tube wiring, and in some cases, even aluminum wiring. Does this mean these types of components or systems are categorically dangerous? No. ...
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Hot Water Heating Systems: Modern Conventional Boiler / Conventional Systems
In a hot water (hydronic) heating systems, water is heated in a gas, oil, or electric boiler and circulated through pipes to convectors; older systems use radiators. When the thermostat calls for heat, a "circulator pump" in the boiler return line ...
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Heating Basement Rec Rooms
If you're house is like most, the rec room can get cold in the winter, especially at the floor level. You've got a sub-floor, and maybe you've got underlayment, some carpet and a couple of space heaters - and it's still cool down there! Chances ar...
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Basement Floor Heating: Q&A
I am seeking some current info on the latest technology for basement floor heating systems. We are planning on building a new home and I did like what my wife and I saw built into the house the students from Quinte built in Belleville.
A few questi...
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TLC For Your Furnace - Avoiding Premature Failure of Heat Exchangers
Ever notice how your car seems to run better right after an oil change, especially if you wash and wax it? Well, it's the same for your furnace... don't laugh, I'm serious!
The main component of heating units, both forced air and hot water, is the...
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Leaking Fuel Oil Tanks - Avoiding Costly Problems With Oil Spills and Leakage
The Dangers
A leaking fuel oil tank can become a serious fire and environmental hazard. Whether the tank is located inside or outside the home, a spill can contaminate groundwater affecting private wells or other nearby drinking water supplies.
One...
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