If your children love to draw or maybe if you are a home schooler you might want to add a chalkboard to one of the walls in your home. I would suggest doing this only after you have taught them not to write on the walls because they may end up getting easily confused and think its ok to write on any wall .. but if this is your plan there are a …
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How to Deal with Project Delays and Downtime
No matter if you are building an entire home or working on something much smaller there are times in your projects where you have downtime. This might be because you need to wait for an inspection, subcontractor or just because you hit a roadblock that requires rethinking your approach. Whatever the reason it happens to us all and it is no different in other trades. How many times have you heard the term …
How To Plan A Profitable Yard Sale
There are a number of times in your life when you have too much stuff that you’re just not using anymore and one of the easiest way to get rid of it is to have a yard sale.
Yard or Garage Sales are best suited to things that are not really expensive but are in good condition. They are also very good for large items that are just too expensive to ship by mail. …
How To Setting Up a XBMC and Media Center Solution Difficulty Overview
If you have been following some of my How Tos in the past few weeks you probably saw me talking about different solutions for setting up a Media Center for your home using Windows Media Center, XBMC Kodi and a variety of different hardware devices.
I wanted to go over some of the problems that I have been confronted with so none of you spend vast amounts of hours to only find the same …
How To Hang Drywall
This is going to be a quick how to on how to hang drywall and what the choices mean between hanging it vertical or horizontal on walls and using screws or nails.
There are a few times in a homes life that might require hanging new drywall. The first is during initial construction when the interior stud walls are covered with drywall to provide a liveable surface. There are other options to hanging drywall …
How To Hookup and Load your Utility Trailer
There are many times that you might want to use a trailer and for each of those reasons there is a different type of trailer that you can buy or rent.
For most home owners and small contractors an open utility trailer will work well and allow you to transport tools and materials to and from the work site.
If you are a professional contractor or if you are expecting to travel a long distance …
How to plan and remeber your home projects
There are always things to do around the home whether it is the regular weekly tasks of cleaning and management or larger projects that take planning and setting aside of time to complete.
The one group of tasks that seems to get by me are the things you need to do to prepare for different seasons of the year. There are always things that you need to do to make your home ready whether it …
How to clean mold fungus and dirt from your exterior vinyl siding
If you own a home with vinyl siding the maintenance factors are pretty low in comparison to other options like brick, stone and light weight artificial stone products. Vinyl is produced to last your home about 30 years give or take and the amount of time that it will last depends on how well you keep it clean and the UV Rays that break it down over time.
If you are like most home owners …
How to fix a no start condition on a lawnmower with no spark
Lawnmower gasoline engines are pretty basic setups so repairing them normally only takes a few basic tools and a little time and money.
When you are diagnosing a small engine with a no start condition there are three basic things that can cause this:
Air / Fuel Mixture
Electrical or Spark
Compression
The first two problems are the least expensive and easiest to fix. If you have a problem with low compression in the cylinder then this can …
How To End of Summer Garden and Lawn Maintenance
As seasons change there are always new things to do and old things to take care of. The change from summer to fall is no different but it is a good time to do things you won’t be able to do once it gets colder.
Since our lawns are the largest areas on our property it is important that they are maintained. In the summer they give our kids a place to play and …