Home Improvement
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Chemical Drain Openers Rarely Fix A Shared Branch Line
A slow drain is hardly ever the drain’s fault. Homeowners get that backward, and the plumbing aisle is happy to…
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A Full House Outgrew Its Water Heater Before It Broke
Most water heaters get replaced the week they quit, which sounds sensible and is usually a mistake. The family in…
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Three Bottles Of Drain Opener Later The Sink Still Holds Water
Two pounds of butter a week go down one kitchen sink in East Nashville, and the branch line under that…
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A Wasp Nest Found On Party Morning Needs A Same Day Crew
Who exactly do you call at seven on a Saturday morning when a paper wasp nest the size of a…
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One Basement Backup Showed Why Sewage Cleanup Is Not Mopping
The floor drain in the daylight basement gurgled for two days before anything came out of it. Then, on the…
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Twelve Years Without Anyone Looking At The Roof
The house is twelve years old, sitting in a Lakewood Ranch subdivision where roughly four hundred roofs went up inside…
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Old Plaster Walls Decide Which Cooling System You Can Install
Three hundred forty dollars was the August electric bill on a 1926 foursquare farmhouse outside town, eleven hundred square feet…
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Hiring An AC Company When The Previous Owner Left No Records
The first 88 degree Saturday in Gig Harbor usually lands in July, and it finds somebody who closed in April…
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Running A Roof Replacement From Six Hundred Miles Away
The call comes at 4:15 on a Tuesday, Denver time, and it is your mother’s neighbor saying there are shingles…
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A Storm Season Roof Check Every Building Manager Should Run
Start with the drains. If you manage a multi-tenant medical office in Fort Worth and the roof is past fifteen…
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