Category: Maintenance

Keeping Hornets Out Of My Garden Tools

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My husband thought I was mad. He saw me in the garden shed on Saturday afternoon carefully measuring our garden tools so that I could sew each of them a black drawstring bag. Every power tool was getting one. “It’s for the hornets.” I told him. He wondered away shaking his head, thinking I was…

The Value of Eavestrough Maintenance

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Living where we do, with such an abbreviated growing season, it seems everybody really values having trees in their yard, as it takes so many years to get them established, but when they do establish themselves they are remarkable in the growth they can attain in each of our short summers. Our trees are great…

How To Clean Vinyl Siding

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What makes vinyl siding a great option for your home’s exterior is that it is durable – no paint flaking or wood rotting to deal with. Often once you get your vinyl siding installed you will notice that it doesn’t take much before you start to notice it getting dirty. We have white vinyl siding…

Best Electric Pressure Washer: Karcher K 3.540 X-Series Pressure Washer

Karcher K 3.540 Electric Pressure Washer

We have a very large backyard fence so when it comes time to paint it (which happens more that we care to think about due to poor quality wood that was used to build the fence) we don’t want to have to scrape the old paint off the fence before painting. My husband is all…

Murray 1695885 22-Inch 205cc 4-cycle Briggs & Stratton 800 Snow Blower

Murray 1695885 22-Inch 205cc 4-cycle Briggs & Stratton 800 Snow Blower

When I was still a teenager living at home, my dad did not own a snowblower – why would he when he had teen labor My sister and I took turns mowing the lawn and shovelling snow which really wasn’t so bad until you got a major dump of snow. That is when you looked…

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