Author: YouRepair

  • How To Using Coldframes and Small Greenhouses To Start Your Garden

    In early spring, a coldframe or mini greenhouse is useful starting your plants early or for hardening small plants that were started indoors. Making a cold frame is relatively easy. If you are lucky you can find a discarded old window on trash day if not you may be able to get one cheap from…

  • Waste Lines

    Unlike your feed lines your waste lines are not under pressure. This means that you must always maintain a downward slope when installing waste lines. Never run a waste pipe within a floor or wall at the horizontal this will be asking for future trouble. When you install Waste lines in your house you can…

  • How To – Testing Your Cars Battery Cables

    When you are diagnosing a problem in your cars charging system it is very easy to overlook the possibility of bad battery cables. If a cable is bad then you can have a range of problems that make it seem that other components are causing a problem. This can prolong your diagnostics and you may…

  • How To – UPS Backup Power For Electronics

    With so many people depending on computers and high end electronics in their homes and businesses electrical outages can cause loss of data, corruption of your operating system and basic inconvenience. If you live in an area that does not see electrical storms or high winds on a regular basis you are still at risk…

  • Protecting Children from Pesticides

    According to the EPA every year approximately 75,000 children in the USA are poisoned by house hold pesticides. Most of the poisonings are due to improper storage of chemicals. A study showed almost 50% of homes with children had poisons stored in an unlocked area below 4 feet high. In homes without children pesticides were found…