Home Heating Savings
Easy Ways To Lower Home Heating Costs
Tweet If you are the person paying your home’s heating bills, you are likely looking for ways to lower or reduce your home heating costs. Fear not, you are not alone; we are here to help. What constantly surprises me is how many people forget that there are so many easy ways to save money [...]
Don’t Forget Annual Maintenance For Your Furnace
Tweet Likely you heard it on your local TV station’s ‘On Your Side’ or ‘Consumer SOS’ or what ever the name given to the segment on the local news focusing on consumer issues. But, I am going to remind you again. With the cool days and nights of autumn now in full force, if you [...]
Lawn and Garden
Garden Makeover – Part 28 – Front Garden Tulips – Don Quichotte, Ballerina, Elegant Lady, Tres Chic and Claudia
Tweet In Part 27, we learned how careful one needs to be to read the packaging for Tulips. Today, we complete our review on the different Tulips that formed part of our front garden’s makeover. As we learned in Part 27 we had 30 Plaisir Tulip bulbs left over from the package which also contained the [...]
Disney World
Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel Review
Earlier this week, Nancy and I took a break from our home maintenance and improvement chores. We even took a break from visiting various home improvement stores like Rona. We stayed for two nights at the Sheraton Dolphin hotel at Walt Disney World. It is important for us to tell you that the folks at the Walt Disney World Dolphin hotel gave us no compensation at all for this review; in fact, they had no idea that we own our own web site. Sheraton Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel Sheraton's Walt Disney World Dolphin, and its counterpart … [Read More...]
Bathroom Renovations
Caulking Bathroom Door Frame
When we purchased our current house more than 2 years ago, it underwent a massive renovation in every, yes every, room in the home ... and outside as well. Heck, that is what got us to start writing about home renovation tips, home maintenance … [Read More Of This Article...]
Drywall Repair
Drywall Repair By French Doors
Previously, we described the set of circumstances which resulted in a very large crack in the drywall by our newly installed set of French Doors. So, to bring you back to our starting point, below you will see the crack in the drywall starting at … [Read More Content Limit...]
Floor Tile Projects
Preparing The Front Hall Floor for Tiles – Part 2
In our continuing series about our front hallway and adjoining laundry room floor tiling project, we reviewed the filling of the sub floor gaps by the stairs, laundry room and living room caused by the previously floors use of narrow yet thick … [Read More Of This Article...]
530+ Home Energy & Water Savings
Green Savings
Free Home Energy & Water Cost Savings Collection With over 530 items, below is the 3rd Edition of our free energy saving and water saving ideas, suggestions, tips, etc. to save you money in your home be it a house, condo or apartment. Be it energy or water usage reduction, these are green savings for the home. Being … [Access Our Free 530+ Money Saving Ideas]
Sealing Home Air Leaks
Installing Vent Register in Drywall Ceiling Vent
Now that I has sufficiently, I think, covered up all of the possible air leaks in the ceiling vent within the basement room in our home which has the drywall ceiling, I still needed to install the vent cover. If you recall from previous articles, … [Read More Of This Article...]
LED Light Bulbs
Noma Solar Powered Outdoor Christmas Lights From Canadian Tire – Part 2
In Part 1 we began the installation of our new solar LED powered outdoor Christmas lights from Canadian Tire on our backyard deck. Today we complete the installation. Now, the question I had for this new product was how secure would the connection be between the solar panel unit and the string of LED lights. Pretty secure. Above … [Read More Of This Article...]
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