Lawn and Garden
Fertilizing Trees
Tweet In the spring one of the most common outdoor activities for a household when you walk or cycle or drive up and down a neighbourhood is to see someone fertilizing their lawn. Some people have garden services to do this for them while others do it themselves. Why do this? Well of course roots [...]
Daily Home Renovation Tips vs The Moles – Part 1 – Damaging Our Lawn
Tweet Sounds like an episode out of a Flash Gordon movie series, doesn’t it? Perhaps I should say ‘Houston, we have a problem’? OK, OK, it’s not life threatening for three courageous astronauts. But, oh, our beautiful back yard! This is the first spring in our current home. We moved in last summer. Our home [...]
Disney World
Easter Seals Camp Challenge Near Walt Disney World
This week sees Nancy and I taking almost a full week away from the family (we are still newly weds after all ;) ) to spend some time in the sun, visiting Disney World and experiencing March Madness in person for the first time. While here we vsited Easter Seals Camp Challenge, a pleasant hour drive north of Walt Disney World. One of our adult daughter has special needs yet thoroughly enjoys a wide variety of outdoor and camp activities. She enjoys the Easter Seals camp back home, so we were curious to see what was possible for her in … [Read More...]
Bathroom Renovations
Finishing Bathroom With Caulking – 1
To me, caulking is one of those home renovation finishing projects which if it is used no one really notices but if it is not used the project looks, well, un-finished. Let me show you our daughter's bathroom. In particular, we are going to focus … [Read More Of This Article...]
Drywall Repair
Separated Drywall Sheets Repair
Two days ago we started our $200 gift card giveaway provided by The Home Depot to celebrate its Renew and Redo Your Bath event as all Home Depot locations in the USA. You can enter as many times as you wish by accessing the entry rules and form here … [Read More Content Limit...]
Floor Tile Projects
Basement Ceiling Leak – Part 22 – Tile Color Coordination
In Part 21 we saw the approach used by Bennett to repair the gaps between the shower floor tile and the shower taps from our initial home renovation / remodeling activities. Today, I'd like to write about colour / color coordination between the … [Read More Of This Article...]
Solar Chared Lawn Mower
Solar Charged Lawn Mower – Solaris, Epic, Utopia – New For 2009
EDITOR'S NOTE: Curious how this lawn mower is performing in its third year? You can! After reading the rest of this article simply select this link to read Solaris Cordless Electric Lawn Mower Review Three Years … [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 … [Access Our Free 530+ Money Saving Ideas]
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 … [Read More Of This Article...]
Home Solar Electricity
Comparing MicroFIT Solar Panel Installation Vendors – Site Visits
After receiving different quotes and proposals from 5 different home solar panel installation vendors over the past 9 months we thought you might be interested in any significant differences between different aspects of their approaches. Recently … [Read More Of This Article...]
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