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trying my best
Favorite area of home improvement:
gardening
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Basement & Garage: I have a crawlspace under part of the house and got a recommendation to replace my regular screens on the ventilation
openings with screens that automatically shut off airflow in the winter cold. Will this keep my crawlspace warmer in the winter and so reduce the chance of pipes freezing? Do they work?
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One more thought. THe vents were put there for many reasons. Humidity control has been a real ...»
Mosquitoes are the peskiest flying insect of them all.
Summer sure does bring plenty and every year there are more moving in on our territory. THere is nothing worse than being outside working in the yard in the heat and mosquitoes are
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I saw a flock of robins on my lawn this morning.
They are migrating through to their winter homes in South America. It's a reminder to us all to feed them as they pass through. The best food for most songbirds is black oil sunflower
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Plant of the day for Shade, spruce up your woodland with some hardy ginger, Asarum splendens, hardy from Zone 5-9,
evergreen perennial - great with hostas and ferns I don't think deer bother it.
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Plants of the day- for hot, sunny sites with not great soil,
Yucca 'Color Guard' combine it with Salvias, both of these love heat and the Yucca is hardy from Zone 5-10, hummingbirds love the Salvias!!!
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Home Maintenance & Repairs: How do I exhaust an upper level bathroom fan to the outdoors?
My roof does not have any gable ends. Do I take the exhaust pipe to the soffit and exhaust down, or do I go up through the roof? If through the roof, how do I stop water from coming in?
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All on the mark.....we see so many bath vents that were never vented to the outside...always ...»