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  • How To – Solar Water Heating

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    Energy requirements for Hot water can account for 20% of an average homes fuel use but with Solar Hot Water Heating you can reduce or eliminate that cost from your budget. The average home even in northern areas can expect to reduce their heating costs by 50% or more with average paybacks within 15 years. The only…

  • Installing A Bathroom Sink Faucet

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    Although there are many parts that you can get to fix your sink faucet sometimes you get to the point where it is best just to replace everything. If this is your situation then performing the work yourself is not that big a deal. You will need a few common tools and the appropriate faucet…

  • Active Solar Heating

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    Active Solar depends on movement from a collector to the area that the heat will be used. Sometimes the heat is used for water heating and other times it is used for space heating. There are two basic types of active heat collection: Air and Liquid. Hot water heating is a good example of an…

  • Book – Black Decker Complete Guide to Home Plumbing

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    Black Decker Complete Guide to Home Plumbing is another coffee table book from their howto series. It seems that more and more of the howto books that large manufacturers provide are not really for the professional but for people that like to watch professionals. The information in this Guide is not Complete as the title…

  • How to pick a Low Flow Toilet

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    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…