Author: YouRepair
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Insulation Guides for Energy Savings
Your homes insulation works both in the winter and the summer so the amount and type of insulation that you have will make a huge impact on the livability of your home year round. Unfortunately once a home is built it can be difficult to add insulation to the walls but because heat rises and the…
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Benefit From Free Passive Solar Heating
The Sun is the most powerful source of energy in our Solar System and without its light and heat the Earth would be just another inhabitable Planet. The problem we find today is harnessing its energy for our own use. Although there are many products being manufactured such as Photovotaics for Energy to Electric conversion…
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Lead Paint Hazards Renovation Guidelines
The use of lead paint in homes and buildings built prior to 1978 is common enough that guidelines have been set by the EPA on how a home remodeler should approach projects and how they should inform their customers before starting a job. This requirement is not only on contractors that tare down walls or…
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How to pick a Low Flow Toilet
Over 10 years ago back in 1994 a Federal Law mandated the use of 1.6 Gallon per flush Low Flow Toilets. This meant that companies had to rush to market designs that were less then up to the task of the standard 3.5 gallon tanks that most home owners were use to but today there…
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Pre Purchase Home Inspections
Pre-Purchase Home Inspections are important for any prospective property buyer for two big reasons. First it provides you information about the condition of the property so you can haggle price and second if the condition is such that improvement costs outweigh the resulting resale value or conditions are so bad that total demolition of the…