Exquisite Tiny House (Extremely Energy Efficient)
PRICE DROP! – This precious home is 399 sq ft. It measures 11 x 36. There’s a porch in front and a darling juliette balcony in the rear. The loft is huge for storage or additional sleeping. There are granite countertops in the kitchen, bath, and built-in bedroom dresser. The bath has a shower with sliding glass doors. The kitchen has full size appliances and the washer/dryer will convey. There is a bedroom down- 8×9 with nightstands that match the beadboard ceiling and accent wall. There are also sliding mirrored doors on the closet. I do not know the weight. It connects to city utilities. It is extremely energy efficient- all foam insulation helps! //FOR SALE
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How To Build a Backyard Pond
We know that a backyard pond with running water, floating plants and darting fish can make a bland space breathtaking. In the following we show you how to build your own pond. Instructions come from TotalPond team, a brand with over 50 years experience. Vivid flowers, well-manicured grass, and stone pathways are great additions to any backyard. But to truly boost the status of a yard, few features make a bigger splash than a water feature. Water features create a centerpiece, an oasis of soothing sounds. Some may shy away from building one, thinking it too difficult to do themselves and too expensive to hire a professional. But creating a water feature doesn’t have to be difficult, especially if you prepare properly and use supplies engineered to make the job manageable. //
DIY PROJECT INSPIRATION//TotalPond show us in a video series how to build a backyard pond and waterfall. Follow the link below and let the TotalPond to teach you how to build a pond step by step… Large Waterfallby TotalPond Via Home http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://theastrinaraymundo.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-build-backyard-pond.html April 29, 2019 at 10:41AM
Flushable Wipes Clog Sewer
Flushable Wipes Clog Drain Lines and SewersDEAR TIM: I’m really upset. I’m retired and have limited resources. I just had to spend $3,300 on a new sewage pump that was ruined by flushable wipes. What can you tell me about these flushable wipes? The label says they’re “sewer and septic safe” whatever that means. Would you use them at your home? Other neighbors are complaining of more frequent clogs at their homes. What’s the best way to protect a home’s sewer pipes so there’s no damage or expensive surprises like I had happen to me? Ed P., Hendersonville, SC DEAR ED: You have every right to be upset. Based on the emails I receive from the subscribers to my newsletter and other incoming requests at my website for help, you’re not alone. In fact, if you do a simple Internet search on the topic, you’ll discover that thousands of homeowners like you and sewage treatment plant managers are up in arms about these products. Are Flushable Wipes Labeled Correctly?The labeling on the product is accurate if you want to split hairs. You can flush these wretched wipes down a toilet. They make it through the curved colon in your toilet and enter the 3-inch drain pipe in your home. You can also flush plastic army men, plastic dinosaurs, golf balls, keys, sand, gravel, cell phones, underwear, cosmetic bottles, pill bottles, etc. down toilets too. The question is: Are the wipes truly sewer and septic safe and is it a good idea to flush all those things above down a toilet? In my opinion, absolutely positively NO! I’ve been a master plumber since age 29 and I can tell you the only thing that should go down a toilet is liquid and solid waste from your body and toilet paper. It’s important to realize the less toilet paper you use each trip to the bathroom, the happier your plumbing system will be. Why is Toilet Paper Safe to Flush?The flushable wipes controversy is really a common sense exercise. If you moisten a single sheet of toilet paper and rub it on your skin or a hard surface you’ll discover it rapidly falls apart. This is by design. You want toilet paper to disintegrate as fast as possible into the tiny cellulose fibers used to create it. Try the same experiment with a decent quality paper towel. You’ll notice that the paper towel tends to hold up and not fall apart. Once again, this is by design. The paper towel manufacturer wants you to be able to use them to clean up spills and do light-duty cleaning. Never flush paper towels down a toilet. Finally, do the same test with a flushable wipe. You’ll quickly discover they often hold together better than paper towels. Can you imagine what happens if there’s not enough water to transport these through your in-house building drain and outside buried sewer line out to your city sewer? At some point, you’ll get a clog. In your case, they didn’t disintegrate and they burned up your sewage pump! Do Flushable Wipes End Up in Sewer Plants?These wipes survive the long and tortuous journey from homes through miles of sewer pipes ending up at municipal sewage treatment plants. They clog up giant pumps at the plants. The Internet is littered with stories about massive clogs in sewers and treatment plants caused by these wipes. Flushable wipes are the scourge of sewers and septic systems. I’d never use them at my house. If you must use them in your home, I suggest you dispose of them in a sanitary way in a special garbage can much like you’d store a soiled baby’s diaper until trash day. Do 1.6-Gallon Toilets Cause Clogs?Clogs in residential plumbing systems can also be traced to the low-flow requirements forced upon us by government officials. Years ago the standard toilet used 3.5 gallons of water per flush. Toilets now use 1.6 gallons of water per flush. There are tens of millions of people like me that have private water wells that don’t have water shortage issues and shouldn’t be forced to use these fixtures. There are tens of millions of people that are connected to municipal water systems that pull water from large rivers that have no chance of running dry. They shouldn’t have to suffer either. This small amount of water, in some plumbing systems, often doesn’t have the energy to transport the flushable wipes or ordinary wastes out to the city sewer. Remember your high school physics class when the simple formula Force = Mass x Acceleration was discussed? Three and one-half gallons of water has much more mass than 1.6 gallons of water. How Do You Flush Out a Drain Line?I routinely protect my home’s plumbing system by filling up two five-gallon buckets of water. This water is poured into a toilet on the second story of my home. My wife assists me as we flush the toilet. As soon as the water from the tank enters the bowl we both pour in our buckets of water at the same time. We pour as fast as possible making sure the water doesn’t overflow in the bowl. This massive slug of water entering the pipes from up high acts like a giant internal pressure washer to keep my main building drain clear. Does Grease Clog Drain Lines?We also only allow body waste into our toilets. The other best practice is to keep as much grease as possible out of your plumbing. I save paper towels used to dry hands and these are used to sop up liquid grease from pans and pots. I throw these grease-soaked towels in the garbage. Solidified grease is a major cause of clogs in residential plumbing systems. The post Flushable Wipes Clog Sewer appeared first on Ask the Builder. Via Home http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://theastrinaraymundo.blogspot.com/2019/04/flushable-wipes-clog-sewer.html April 29, 2019 at 10:41AM
Primitive Cooking: Girl used water current to cook roasted chicken
Hi, today I want to show you a video about primitive cooking, how the water current can be used to cook roasted chicken. In the video below a women can be seen in an area around a river where she built a roaster to cook a chicken. What do you think? // Via Home http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://theastrinaraymundo.blogspot.com/2019/04/primitive-cooking-girl-used-water.html April 27, 2019 at 05:50AM
Friday Favorites: Spring and Outdoor Projects
Hello Friday! We are so glad you are here again. Warm weather + the weekend = lots of fun DIY outdoor projects. If you don’t have any planned your better get planning. This week we are sharing useful and pretty outdoor projects. Outdoor spaces are some of our favorites and we love to spruce them […] The post Friday Favorites: Spring and Outdoor Projects appeared first on Remodelaholic. Via Home http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://theastrinaraymundo.blogspot.com/2019/04/friday-favorites-spring-and-outdoor.html April 27, 2019 at 03:50AM
Inspired Through Instagram: Outdoor Spaces that Wow
Since this week was Earth Day, we were thinking it might be fun to start Earth Day traditions involving improving our own outdoor spaces. Adding some plants and a few more ways to relax and enjoy the outdoors (via tables, benches, and seating) can vastly improve mood! So, for this post we really wanted to […] The post Inspired Through Instagram: Outdoor Spaces that Wow appeared first on Remodelaholic. Via Home http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://theastrinaraymundo.blogspot.com/2019/04/inspired-through-instagram-outdoor.html April 26, 2019 at 03:50AM
Updating Color to Create Curb Appeal + Easy Spring Cleaning Tips for Outdoor Spaces
Hello Remodelaholics! Are you loving this beautiful spring weather? What are you currently working on? The weather has been allowing us to work outside ad we are taking full advantage of it! We are excited to show you what we have been working on and we would love to see your current projects! You can […] The post Updating Color to Create Curb Appeal + Easy Spring Cleaning Tips for Outdoor Spaces appeared first on Remodelaholic. Via Home http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://theastrinaraymundo.blogspot.com/2019/04/updating-color-to-create-curb-appeal.html April 25, 2019 at 01:50PM
DIY Ideas From Old Tires! For The Home, Garden!
You can extend the technique of cutting and expanding to fashion an impressive and beautiful bird out of tires or – if you are up to the challenge – make an entire tree! The nicest thing about using tires to refresh your garden is that you could use it not only for decoration but also for making toys. Via Home http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://theastrinaraymundo.blogspot.com/2019/04/diy-ideas-from-old-tires-for-home-garden_24.html April 25, 2019 at 09:50AM
DIY Ideas From Old Tires! For The Home, Garden!
You can extend the technique of cutting and expanding to fashion an impressive and beautiful bird out of tires or – if you are up to the challenge – make an entire tree! The nicest thing about using tires to refresh your garden is that you could use it not only for decoration but also for making toys. Via Home http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://theastrinaraymundo.blogspot.com/2019/04/diy-ideas-from-old-tires-for-home-garden.html April 24, 2019 at 02:29PM
Three and Four-Way Switches and Deck Cleaning
Three and Four-Way SwitchesQUESTION #1: Tim, I need you to mediate a dispute between my husband and me. We’re building a new home and there are quite a few places where two, or more, switches can be used to control lights. I like the convenience but my husband has had nothing but problems trying to troubleshoot these three and four-way switches. He wants nothing to do with these ‘wretched switches’ as he refers to them. Your vote will decide the issue. I have to add that pecan pie and moist pumpkin bread are two of the favorite things I like to bake. Veronica B., Lakeland, FL There’s no need for Veronica to bribe me with two of my favorite desserts as I’m a huge fan of three and four-way switches. I wish I could meet the engineer who many years ago figured out how to make these magnificent switches that allow you to control a light, or group of lights, from multiple locations. The most common uses for these switches are at the top and bottom of staircases or at the ends of a long hallway. When you use one in a finished home, you might think it’s magic that’s making it all work. In reality, you just need special switches that are readily available. You also need to have a special cable with one extra wire that runs between the two switches. The simplest setup is to have just two three-way switches control one light. A three-way switch has three screws on it plus the green grounding screw. A standard single-pole switch only has two screws on it plus the green grounding screw. That extra screw on a three-way switch confounds almost all homeowners and apprentice electricians as I get their emails each and every week asking for help. There are a few ways to connect two three-way switches together, but I prefer the method where you use a cable that has an extra red wire in it. It’s called three wire with a ground. The real fun and magic of these switches is when you have a situation where you want to control some lights or an appliance from three, or more, points. My daughter is building a new home right now and she’s got at least five sets of lights in here home that are controlled by four different switches. To achieve this higher level of electrical wizardry, you install four-way switches in between the two three-way switches in the circuit. A four-way switch has four screws on it plus the green grounding screw. To make the wiring work flawlessly so your husband becomes a lover of these switches you install the same special three-wire cable in between all the three and four-way switches in the circuit. That lovely red wire along with the black wire in the cable will do all the heavy lifting and your husband will think that all the switches in your new home were sprinkled with pixie dust. I have three helpful videos at my AsktheBuilder.com website showing you how fast and easy it is to wire up and troubleshoot three and four-way switches. Just type 3 way switch or 4-way switch into the search engine at my website to find them. Collectively these videos have been watched by over 2,400,000 people saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars on electrician and divorce attorney fees! Deck CleaningQUESTION #2: Timmy, can you share what you feel is the best deck cleaner for both wood and composite decks and why you feel it’s best? There’s lots of conflicting information out there on the Internet. Many many people say to mix chlorine bleach with water in a 50/50 solution. Others say to blast away using a pressure washer. I’m very interested in your opinion and any stories you can share. Lori S., Portland, OR You may be in the same situation as Lori. You read blog posts, watch videos and become catatonic as you stare at cable TV home improvement shows. I’ve tried all the methods Lori described and finally discovered, quite by accident, the best way to clean a wood deck. I’ve always known that chlorine bleach is the worst thing to use outdoors to clean decks, patios, and sidewalks. My neighbor who lived next to me in Cincinnati killed a magnificent maple tree that provided luxurious shade on her rear patio using chlorine bleach. Each spring she’d dump three gallons of pure bleach on the patio and scrub away to rid it of algae. I told her it was a mistake and she ignored me. The tree got sicker and sicker and eventually, it was cut down. Other friends of mine and many contractors feel pressure washers are the answer. Yes, they are magnificent tools and blast away mildew, dirt and sun-damaged sealers. But the high-pressure stream also erodes the soft light-colored spring wood in between the darker bands of summer wood in the decking. Soon your deck looks and feels like a 50-year-old fishing pier. Twenty-five years ago, I was doing research for how to seal a wood deck. I interviewed a manufacturer and casually asked about using chlorine bleach as a cleaner. He responded, “Oh, that’s the worst thing to use. You want to use oxygen bleach. Call this chemist and he’ll tell you all about it.” I made the call and it changed my entire opinion about how to clean anything that’s water washable, including wood and composite decking. Oxygen bleach is readily available. There are quite a few brands. I’d recommend one that’s certified organic. Oxygen bleach is not toxic to vegetation. It doesn’t bleach out the color of wood as chlorine does. There’s no foul odor when you use oxygen bleach. Oxygen bleach comes as a powder you mix with water. Use warm or hot water and stir until all the powder dissolves. Work in the shade and apply the solution to dry decking so it soaks into the wood to deep clean it. Apply the solution liberally and allow the oxygen bubbles to work for at least 15 minutes before lightly scrubbing the decking with a medium scrub brush. Rinse well with clear water, let dry and you’ll be amazed at how clean your wood is! The post Three and Four-Way Switches and Deck Cleaning appeared first on Ask the Builder. Via Home http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://theastrinaraymundo.blogspot.com/2019/04/three-and-four-way-switches-and-deck.html April 24, 2019 at 12:29AM |