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7 Reasons You Should Be Using L.E.D. Christmas Lights
I fully intended to decorate our Christmas tree this year with L.E.D. lights but got an added bonus when my wife saw The Home Depot’s recent advertisement. It offered a discount off the new bulbs if...
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Top 10 Reasons to Consider Building with Insulating Concrete Forms (ICF)
With the current interest in “being green,” Insulating Concrete Forms or, ICFs are quickly becoming a preferred building method. It’s a mainstream technique throughout Europe and gaining traction...
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Cicada Killer Wasp
My yard has recently been infested by the “747” of wasps. The Eastern cicada killer (a.k.a. cicada killer wasp) is the largest wasp in North America. So naturally, when one see two or three of them...
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Safe Room Construction
A couple years ago, safe rooms (a.k.a. panic rooms) were the “buzz” around the water cooler with the release of the movie “Panic Room,” starring Jodie Foster. Now again, with the recent mid-west...
View ArticleDIY Disaster – Oversized Load
We focus a lot on “How to” articles here on diyhousetips.com but when I received this email I thought of creating a new “Don’t Do” category on the site. For now we’ll post it under “Safety/Hazards” but...
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