HowTos

How To Find A Good Car Mechanic

A good Auto Mechanic is as hard to find as anyone else. I don’t know why some people think that all mechanics and shops should be good when they know from other experiences that finding a good doctor or plumber or even a good restaurant is going to be something that takes time and luck.

Unfortunately cars are something that we all depend on and they need to be running and we can’t do without …

How To Store Lumber

When you are working on projects sometimes you need to order your lumber early and sometimes you have extra lumber that you want to store for your next job. Either way the cost of lumber means that you need to take good care of it.

There are a few different ways that lumber might come to your home or work site. Often flatbed trucks will deliver your materials and if you are purchasing a full …

How To Repairing A Brick Border Fence

A friend unfortunately just had the rear brick fence to their property collapse and they are wondering what they should do now. With a little bit of background the fence separates their property from a golf course and along the fence line is a concrete pathway used by the golf course.

After a little discussion it seems that they are not living in a HOA situation where the fence might have been installed by the …

How To Deal With A Neighbor Who Has Built Something On Your Property

A friend of ours contacted us about a problem they just realized they had. After moving into their home about 2 years ago they had time to look up their plot map on their county website and saw that their neighbor’s detached garage is actually on their property about 10 feet. The garage is near but not at the street and they live in a small city so parking is an issue and in …

How To Know When You Are Asking Too Much From Your Contractor

This is a How To that might not make everyone on Angry’s List happy but it is something that really should be talked about. When you are dealing with a professional contractor you should expect that they perform their work accurately and with high quality but there are times when tiny little things end up turning a project into a nightmare for a contractor and the home owner that hired them.

Consider this that any …

How To What To Do If The Kitchen Sink Won’t Drain

A friend of ours asks about a kitchen sink that had been draining slowly for some time and now it is very clogged. It seems that they tried removing the p-trap under the sink already and found that it was free of obstructions. They then replaced the p-trap to find that the sink is now so clogged that they need to plunge it to get water to move.

In this case they did the right …

How To Quick Guide For Staining Decks

If you have a wood deck then it is important that you maintain its finish and keep it clean between stainings to extend the life of the materials and reduce costly repairs. Eventually you will need to replace boards on your deck from deterioration but with proper cleaning and staining you can expect 15 to 25 years from your deck.
Cleaning Your Deck Before You Stain It
As you can imagine its always important that you …

How To Save Your Recorded Television Files For Later Viewing

Whether you just cut the cord and you are on an Antenna or if you are still on Cable and you want to create an archive of shows for later watching there are some good, better and best ways to create your archive and play it back on your devices.

For Cable subscribers you will have to get a device that can use a CableCard. It is a credit card sized card that your cable …

How To Tell If You Have A Bad Engine Head Gasket

A major problem on many vehicles is a bad head gasket and sometimes simple replacement of the gasket will cure the problem completely but other times you will need to have your block or head resurfaced by a machine shop. Before you get into a costly situation that can leave you without your car for many days or sometimes weeks depending on how bad it is you want to make sure that the head …

How To Tell If Your Fuel Pump Is Bad And Needs To Be Replaced

On older classic cars the fuel pump was part of the engine and cars that had carburetors had a fuel bowl that would hold enough gas to get your car started and allow the fuel pump to start pumping gas to your engine. Today most cars even carburetored engines have an electric fuel pump that sends fuel to the engine but all fuel injected vehicles have them and its probably likely that your car …