Archive for the 'Tips & Tricks' Category

Careful With Those Wires, Please!

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

It’s been a busy few weeks here. Along with work, my wife came down with a case of MRSA. So up until last week it had been work, work, work, then come home and take care of her and the house and the puppies . . .
Yes, puppies. Our old labrador had the last litter of puppies [...]

Putting Copper Under Wraps

Friday, May 18th, 2007

I was on my way home from the There’s Water Under the House job when the phone rang. A do-it-yourselfer had gotten himself into a fix. The copper water main under his house had developed a pin-hole leak. He’d tried to fix it himself, but couldn’t get any of [...]

Do Yourself Green Pt 1: Door Seals

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

It was pointed out to me the other day that not everybody wants to build a new home in order to "go green." Others don’t have the revenue to do a "green up" remodel of their existing home. But they still would like to participate in [...]

Left Loose it Leaks

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

A light day, today. Mostly paperwork with one little service call that started out drawing on the oldest of components to the old business: appliance repair.appliance repair
A lovely young mother of a newborn called me because her dishwasher seemed to be spontaneously leaking all over her kitchen floor. And, she said, her garbage disposal wasn’t [...]


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