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Our home maintenance section of our blog is the day to day chore of taking care of our house. DIY on cleaning tips, repairs and all around maintenance to keep it in working order.
Our backyard is green all year, which makes it difficult to tell the difference between English Ivy and poison vines. Our english ivy alias hedera helix is intermixed with Poison Ivy, Oak and Sumac. While we enjoy all of the greenery and the benefits it brings us, it can be a bumpy relationship if we …
You have a tremendous opportunity to save money today by inspecting and weatherproofing your exterior electrical outlets. Over time the weatherproofing on the outlets begins to fail. They also start to not look to attractive. If you open up the covers, you will most likely see something that could be rather dangerous. We will cover …
A Sauna Heater is a relatively simple device, almost like an oversized toaster oven. It is important to inspect and clean the sauna heater once a year. It was a surprise when we toured our home to find out it had a “real” sauna. It was not part of the home description but no matter …
Would you like to wake up to see a leaking toilet on the bathroom floor? Not me. Some days it feels like home-ownership has zero rewards. I was summoned to my daughters bathroom to see a small (pretty clear thank goodness) leak on the floor. I immediately started to wonder, did the wax ring fail …
As we continue to document the restoration of our home, we constantly discover new thinks like this one today – how to clean mid-century brass lights. It’s not exactly at the top of the to-do list, however we are working on the deck area and it was one of the eye sores. Also not 100% …