by Tom | Jun 3, 2020 | DIY and Home Improvement, Technology
The humble microwave oven is the most underappreciated kitchen appliance you have on your counter top. It can warm food, boil water, cook a full meal and even bake desserts in a fraction of the time it takes your stovetop or oven, yet home cooks still think of it as...
by Tom | May 29, 2020 | DIY and Home Improvement
My gas furnace is only a couple years old, so I wasn’t real happy when our gas furnace began operating intermittently, sometimes starting when it should and sometimes not. We would be sitting in the living room playing a board game or just walking around and one...
by Tom | May 23, 2020 | DIY and Home Improvement
Power washers are fun and effective ways to remove dirt, grime, moss, mildew and other materials from all your outdoor surfaces using pressurized water, but they can be difficult to use on large areas. All power washers, no matter how expensive or how affordable have...
by Tom | May 22, 2020 | DIY and Home Improvement
It’s a spring ritual for me to pull out the cheap power washer I had bought last year, hook it up, turn on the water and start cursing as it squirts water all over the patio. Another $100 electric power washer had bit the dust. This year I purchased the...
by Tom | Mar 31, 2019 | DIY and Home Improvement
Weeding a lawn is one of those dreaded homeowner tasks that should be done regularly but is rarely done well. A lot of homeowners, myself included, tend to rely on chemicals to indiscriminately do the weeding work for us, saving us time but definitely not...
