A couple of years ago, we sunk a lot of money into a new deck. I didn’t want to spend a lot of time on annual maintenance, so we went with a plastic decking called Azek. It looks like a wood plank, except that it will never rot, change color or stain. Also, it’s solid, unlike some of those other plastic decking...
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About seven years ago, a water main broke behind our garage. I remember that it was toward the end of December, and we thought that maybe the neighbor’s pool had sprung a leak. There was a lot of water. The town came and drove a bobcat through our backyard. It just made a big mess. Workers were digging in my...
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A week ago, I didn’t know anything about furnaces. You set the thermostat to a temperature, and the house then magically adjusts to that temperature. There’s a box in the basement that does it. And that’s all I knew. We recently had a guy come out to do the annual maintenance on that box and he found a...
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Chrissy and I have wanted to replace our old fence ever since we bought the house, but kept putting that project off. We looked into it last year, but found that it would be a little more expensive to do than we thought it would be. So after a year of saving up (or rather, paying off earlier home remodeling projects), we met...
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What started out as a little bit of concrete next to our deck became a much larger project. It took a lot longer than we had expected, because it had to be poured in three separate sections on three different days. And it rained a lot in between each section. Luckily, our contractor was able to start earlier than he planned,...
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After we put the deck in the back yard last year, we were left with a patch of dirt between the deck and the garage that turned to mud when it rained. We decided to pave over the dirt with concrete, covering everything from the deck over to the driveway. We talked to a few contractors, but quickly found out that there would be a...
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Our dishwasher has been flaky for the past six months, but it finally crapped out on us. The door had rusted into the controls, and replacing it would be costly. It was short notice, but we knew where to buy a new one. For the last ten years, Nason’s Appliances has always given us great deals, and they throw in delivery...
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With the siding finished on the house and the garage, Uncle Glenn and Chrissy’s Dad turned their attention to the deck on the back of the house. Or more to the point: the lack of a deck on the back of the house. We’ve had several pallets of lumber (both real and plastic) sitting on our driveway for a couple of days. ...
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