Summer safety tips for outdoor living and hazards
Advice on preventing injuries and fires during outdoor activities. Covers porch and stair safety railings lighting ground clutter mowing precautions gasoline storage and use of pesticides and tools. Emphasizes securing garages from fire risk and keeping toys tools and garden waste organized. Specific steps include shutoff for mower spark plug removal and drip pan use.
Keeping Hose In Good Repair Tips for garden hose care and repairs
Advice on selecting hose types and lengths, preventing kinks, and maintaining hoses. Includes guidance on washers, menders, hot water dipping, taper nuts, and protecting hoses from sun and vehicle traffic. Emphasizes durable cord reinforced hoses for pressure and long life.
Modern Coffee Table Is Easy To Make
Instructions describe building a lattice top coffee table from a single size of wood with precut legs. Step by step layout covers frame pieces, spacing, gluing, screws, and finishing, including center section assembly and filling side open spaces for a complete tabletop.
Spruce Up Your Yard With Simple Outdoor Upgrades
In summer, tidy the grounds by removing eye sores and improving walkways. Use flagstone bricks, gravel or granite for aesthetic paths, and camouflaged porch steps with plants. Build fences to hide trash heaps and provide storage. A low wooden tarpaulin fence offers a simple solution for bicycle storage.
Music lover installs grand garage pipe organ in Topeka
Ed Love, a Topeka resident, built a garage pipe organ with 345 pipes and five sets of pipes powered by a two horsepower blower. The device includes a fire siren bird whistle surf sound bass drum snare tambourine castanets cymbals and a wooden horse trotting block. The Love family keeps two cars parked out front.
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Building a Centered Table Top with Decorative Crosspieces
The pieces span the width of the table top creating a decorative frame as the center strips run lengthwise. Space the crosspieces at seven to sixteen inch intervals with the two outer members flush to each other to form a solid base for attaching the legs.
Ultimate resale value of home improvements
The article discusses whether improvements raise resale price and notes neighborhood price ranges matter most. Mortgage expert Dr Kurt Flexner says appraisers can set prices for improved homes up to 25 percent above the neighborhood average, reflecting added market value.
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Kurt Flexner
American Bankers Association
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