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Home Maintenance & Repairs: Does anyone have any experience with Leafree?

My roofer is also recommending Rapidflow inserts but I am not convinced of their value.

Commented Yesterday
Yes, this is the second spring for that product and it has performed wonderfully. The roof is ...»
easier to clean, I still have to do that because of the giant oak tree in front of the house. And even the back gutter, which gets hit the most, doesn't get any material inside of it any longer. In fact we are going to be removing the pollen drop today, God willing. I hope this helps. BTW I am most likely going to put some on my garage as a large pine regularly drops needles and pollen sacks into those gutters too. You know that doesn't help the water flow at all.

Home Maintenance & Repairs: Should I Worry About Exposed Nail Heads On Roof?

We had the roof torn off and redone about a year ago. While cleaning out the gutters, I've noticed that there are some exposed nail heads. I would think that these are supposed to be ...»

Commented on Dec 17, 2012
This definitely is no good. If you can't get them back then get some black polyurethane, ...»
otherwise known as NP1, pull the nail, carefully, then force the polyurethane into the nail hole while leaving a small domed piece on the shingle. This will last as long as your roof and if done properly will never leak in that location.

Home Maintenance & Repairs: I purchased a 95% hi Eff Rheem furnance and birds got into the pipe. they say it is illegal to put a bird screen

So I need resolution, I can't go thru this every year. He is a picture of the pvc pipe

Commented on Oct 22, 2012
Hardware cloth will not ice up and ever be a problem here. Water is not corrosive unless it ...»
has some sort of chemical or ionic solvent in it. Pure water doesn't corrode at all. Galvanized hardware cloth will last for many many years and it is much better than birds nests in the line, which it will prevent.

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Crazy things that happen while making concrete countertops

I was working in the shop the other day by myself and this little guy flew in. It let me go right up to it and pick it up, i thought it might be hurt or sick but he was healthy and could ...»

Commented on Sep 11, 2012
That is really wonderful!! Savor that moment because there aren't many like that in life.

A Chinese neighbor has a very nice garden near the street. I asked him what these were during one of my daily walks, but

he didn't know the English word for it. Do you know what they are? Here are two photos.One shows what I assume is the ripe fruit (red) and the others are still working on it. They're in a ...»

Commented on Sep 11, 2012
If you get some Louise please let us know what the fruit is like. I know of several nurseries ...»
that sell these trees but I have avoided buying any because I have no idea what they are like.

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Gardening: cutting grass on the backside of the property and came across these. Any ideas? I didnt plant them. Caterpillars love em

Commented on Sep 08, 2012
We wait until they fall off most of the time, they are yellow, orange and still have spots of ...»
green at that point. They have a sweet tangy taste that is unique and if you let them dry out a bit on the outside until wrinkled the flavor concentrates in the sack around the seed. That inside is a little like a pomegranate in that the juice is around the seed. And the seed can be saved and sowed, I have a ton of them from years of collecting them. If we get a real cold hard winter they may not come back from where they are now and you will have to plant new seed. We have ours on a fence that we use as a trellis and it is a part of our vegetable garden. For the most part they are perennial
but like I mentioned a hard cold freeze will kill them. They are very easy to plant and since they are native to the area they are very drought tolerant. Good luck!!!

Gardening

the strawberries came out but, something keeps eating @ them. I've sprayed them already with bug spray

Commented on Aug 15, 2012
We have slugs attack ours and it is hard to get rid of them too.

what causes this?

replaced this once already

Commented on Aug 15, 2012
I got that one time because I left the lime away on the metal too long. I didn't realize it ...»
was phosphoric acid until it was too late. Probably something like that caused this degradation of the metal.

Paint your fan!

Do you have one of those boring old white plastic fans? I put up with looking at mine for years worth of Summers until I decided to risk it and give it a little paint. Find out more about ...»

Commented on Aug 15, 2012
Paint is ok but if it is plastic vinyl dye is a better choice. Paint will eventually fail and ...»
peel, especially if the plastic has any sort of contamination on it at all. The dye penetrates the plastic and will not come off/out.

I have observed these growing in middle to north Georgia for the past few years. They grow in moist soil usually next to a stream or swamp but not right in the water. When they bloom the tiny flowers are pinkish, and butterflies, bumble bees, honey bees, wasps, etc., love them. The will be there day and night until the flowers wither. I have never seen them before when I stumbled upon them in the woods a few years ago and if you think a butterfly bush attracts butterflies you haven't ...»

Commented on Aug 14, 2012
I've been looking at and collecting plants for years but for some reason I missed this one. ...»
Yes it does look like Joe Pye weed to me as well. Thanks for the help in figuring this out.

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