Reading Time: 4 minutes How To Repair LED Bulbs In order to save some money, you may need to know how to repair LED bulbs. It’s a dirty little secret of LED lamps. Something only spoken in hushed tones in the dark corners of the internet. LED bulbs do not last as long as advertised. When LED life is… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes  A No Lawnmower Maintenance Life I confess I believe in a no lawnmower maintenance life. My lawnmower has a hard life and it’s all on me. I think it goes back to my youth when I worked in a rental yard. Let me explain. We would rent new mowers at the start of the season… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reverse Osmosis Add a membrane flush kit Add a membrane flush kit and extend the life of your RO membrane. The purpose of the flush kit is to help prevent scaling or fouling of the reverse osmosis membrane. By removing the contaminants(thru flushing) from the membrane it extends it’s life. Membrane fouling is a process whereby… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes New No sugar added Yogurt There’s a new no sugar added yogurt on the market shelves. I love yogurt and as a diabetic when I had a supply of no sugar added yogurt there was always yogurt in my basket each time I went to the grocery store. Somewhere along the way, the manufacturer of the yogurt… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Bigger Peaches Strategy The bigger peaches strategy is going to get the cobbler or pie on the table. Getting bigger peaches is not about more fertilizer. It is not about chasing the birds away. It is about destruction. Let me explain. You’ve planted your peach tree. You”ve waited for two years. Every year pulling the immature… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Air Leak in SuperFlo Pool Pump My neighbor had an air leak in SuperFlo pool pump and needed help. We had replaced his pump seal and all the O-ring/seals, and both motor bearings and after starting it up it was drawing air into the water. He showed me the air bubbles at the return jet… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Deep Cleaning Glass Top Patio Furniture My to-do list came up with deep cleaning glass top patio furniture recently. I had to clean a glass top table that had sat out in the weather due to my patio cover being replaced. The glass top accumulated a lot of dirt in the time it took to… Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Repairing a Leaking Hose Bib Repairing a leaking hose bib shot to the top of the list recently. I experienced an over usage fee on my water bill. I didn’t know that it was leaking at the time but when the bill came I started searching for a leak. In my backyard I had extended… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Rebuilding a Vac Mate Rebuilding a Vac Mate is something I did recently. I have owned three of these over the last fifteen-twenty years. They do a great job of making a suction pool cleaner work to it’s fullest potential. They skim floating debris continuously helping to keep the pool clean. But they do have their… Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutes Installing Door Casing to Perfection Installing door casing to perfection is all about the corners. Every technique discussed in this article is about getting a tight miter joint. The following techniques if applied will ensure that your efforts produce a first class job. But you will need some powered tools to get the best results.… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes How to Carry OSB Plywood Alone There are many things you can do by yourself, but carry OSB, plywood, alone is not easy. It’s just so darn big and hard to get a grip on and move easily. There are many solutions to this problem. The solution below is very cost effective. It assumes that… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cracking Lowe’s Discount Codes Cracking Lowe’s discount codes was something I stumbled across recently. Let me explain. I was looking at upgrading my shelving system for my shed. It currently does not have enough shelves to store all the stuff I have. I had recently found a pair of loppers(they had been missing for six months) under… Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Making an Ethernet Port Wireless Making an ethernet port wireless was something I needed to do. I have an older dish box located in a place that did not have an ethernet cable connection available. The box does not have wireless capability. It does have one USB and one ethernet port. I did not want to use… Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutes How to Remove Tile Learn how to remove tile with less dust and save some money. Are you like me and have received an astronomical bid for tile replacement? How would you like to save three dollars to five fifty per square foot on your tile job? That’s how much you can save if you do the demolition.… Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Black Algae Bloom Attack If your reading this you may have a black algae attack in your pool’s future? Have you got a black algae bloom in your pool? It recently happened to me. Now don’t get me wrong. This is not a couple of spots here or there in the pool. This is a… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Add Buttons to WordPress Posts I needed to add buttons to WordPress posts recently. I needed them for a really long post. The post was taking to long to load and by breaking it into several small pages I could get the load time down to an acceptable level. But breaking it into several pages… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cleaning Ring Around the Burner Do you have a ring around the burner? What is ring around the burner? Where did it come from? How do you get rid of it? All good questions when you are dealing with your ceramic cooktop. What is it and Where did it come from? That familiar ring is a combination… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Create Before and After Photos With Paint How to create before and after photos with paint has been on my to-do list for quite awhile. I finally had the time to put it all together. I had a problem a few months past where I needed to combine a couple of photos for a before… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Remote Control Repair Remote control repair may be in your future. In many cases, your remote may not be working because too much dirt has built up inside between the PCB and the rubber buttons.  If you have an old toothbrush, some cotton swabs and a bit of rubbing alcohol, carefully cleaning to remove any… Read More »
