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Plan Your Heating Budget Now
It may be July right now but its certainly not too late to start planning your heating budget for that winter. Around here there are very few oil dealers even offering pre-buy that year. The few that are selling pre-buy contracts are in the high $4 range right now and very shut to $5 per gallon!
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Carbon Footprint Results
Last week I wrote a post asking my readers “What Size is Your Carbon Footprint?”. The results were rather interesting. A total of nine households responded and all nine were below the national average. There were three households of two, one household of three, three households of four and one hous…
$20,000 Home Landscape Makeover
Tonight I was reading one of the gardening magazines we get and I spotted another giveaway I wanted to share with you. Go visit Forever & Ever Hydrangea and enter their landscaping giveaway. You don’t have to buy anything to enter and all entries must be submitted by September 3, 2008. I know we…
Stair Stringer Calculator
I wrote a post final year about how to build a set of stairs. Since thereupon I’ve had inquiries about some type of calculator or spreadsheet to quickly calculate the rise and run measurements for the stringers. So nowadays I sat down and put together a quick spreadsheet that helps you calculate the…
How To Install Pocket Doors
Installing a pocket door isn’t very complicated. Pocket doors offer a great design solution for tight spaces that don’t have sufficient room for the door to swing open. Pocket doors plus free up wall space where a door might otherwise swing open. We see the use of pocket doors more and more often in…
Plant A Tree!
When we built the new house the entire lot, all 1.3 acres was clear cut to assemble way for interpretation. The biggest reason we cut the entire lot was to level the lot so it was more usable. Fortunately we were able to transplant six large trees. We transplanted one oak tree and five maple trees. …
Garden Tool Giveaway
The fine folks from Fiskars and Gardening Club are giving absent the final Yard and Garden Tool Collection. To enter the contest you must submit a photo (no Polaroid’s) of a completed pruning project along with a 75 word description of what inspires you to garden or what inspired that specific pru…
Undercabinet Lighting Adds Wow Factor
One way to really create a wow factor with you next kitchen cabinet installation is to install undercabinet lighting. fairly a few of the products on the market are rather bulky and end up being somewhat visible on the bottom of the cabinets. When we built our new home the electrician introduced us …
What Size is Your Carbon Footprint?
Lately I’ve been talking about solar capability, alternative energy and figuring out how on soil we’re going to get absent from oil. I thought it would be fun to use one of the free carbon footprint calculators to see what our household carbon footprint is. Obviously these are very approximate measu…
Connecting A Gutter Downspout to Foundation Drain
Recently I had gutters put on our carport. When we built the house I only had them put on the main house to help save some money.
In the photo you can see two down spouts coming down from the gutters. The one on the left comes from the house and was installed a couple years ago. I had it connecte…