Author: YouRepair
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How To Prevent Pests from Entering Your Home
In this How To a friend is asking about the best way to seal their foundation and areas at ground level to help prevent pests from entering their home. We have crickets and mice during the summer so we need to fill the cracks between our siding and foundation. We tried to caulk it with…
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How To Tips for Saving Money when Using an Electric Stove
If you grew up with a Gas Stove and have to Migrate to an Electric Stove or if you just have high costs from cooking we are going to give you a few really simple tips to save money while cooking. With only a few exceptions will you find that Electric Range Cooking is up…
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How To Replacing Vinyl Siding on very Old House
One of our friends writes that they own a home that was built around the 1890’s and that the previous owner had placed vinyl siding on it. After inspecting some water damage around a window they found that there was some caulking that had failed and some of the window sill and maybe some of…
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How To Cure a Musty Smelling Clothes Washer
Musty smelling clothes washers are a problem that many people have. Unfortunately this problem happens not because we aren’t good care takers of our homes but because of residual water that remains in the washer after use. This can be a very difficult problem to take care of because the bacteria that causes the smell…
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How To Avoid the Biggest mistakes of a Beginner Gardener
Over the past few months we have been talking with gardeners and asking them what are some of the biggest mistakes you made when you first got into Gardening. This How To will cover some of them in hopes that you can avoid them. Over Planting and Not Pruning The first mistake that many people…