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How To Repair Hairline Cracks in Tile Grout Lines

By Todd Fratzel on Flooring

How To Repair Cracked Grout Anyone that’s installed ceramic tile knows that after time you may find narrow cracks in the grout lines. Typically this happens where two perpendicular faces come together. For example, where a tiled wall meets a tiled counter top or floor.We have this problem in or master bathroom in a few…

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Home Depot Coupon

By Todd Fratzel on Coupons

Save with Great Deals – Home Depot Online The Home Depot Online offers lots of great deals and savings. On this page you’ll find several Home Depot Coupon codes which provide some great savings. If you’ve got a large purchase coming up and it’s likely that the best deal is at The Home Depot then…

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How To Clean Vinyl Fence and Railing

By Todd Fratzel on Maintanence

Cleaning Vinyl Fence One of the few problems I’ve found with vinyl railings and fencing is how dirty it gets from the weather. After a season of rain, snow, ice and bird droppings these white vinyl railings great really dirty. You can’t tell from a distance but if you get up to it you won’t…

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How To Replace Light Fixture with Ceiling Fan

By Todd Fratzel on Electrical

Replacing a light fixture with a ceiling fan is a great way to cool down a room and lower your electric bill this summer. However, installing ceiling fans in existing construction can sometimes be a challenge. Ceiling fans require a special heavy duty ceiling fan junction box to support their heavy weight. Before you start…

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Underground Propane Tanks

By Todd Fratzel on Air Conditioning

Underground Propane Tanks One of the benefits to using propane vs oil for your heating fuel is you can bury the tank underground instead of having an oil tank in your basement. I like using underground propane tanks for a number of reasons as I’ll point out in this post. If you’re building a new…

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How To Plant Hydrangea

By Todd Fratzel on Landscaping

Today I planted some Hydrangea plants along the front of the farmers porch. Hydrangeas are a great perennial flowering shrub that blooms from late spring to late summer. The flowers are defined as a type of flower head (sometimes called mop heads) that contains many small flowers. The flowers can be white, blue, shades of…

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Today’s Green Construction Blog

By Todd Fratzel on Green Building

I’d like to announce a new blog that I’ve started, Today’s Green Construction. This green construction blog will focus on this exciting area of the construction industry. Almost every project we work on today has some component that’s considered green or sustainable design. There is no doubt that the green construction movement is quickly gaining…

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$20,000 Home Landscape Makeover

By Todd Fratzel on Landscaping

Tonight I was reading one of the gardening magazines we receive and I spotted another giveaway I wanted to share with you. Go visit Forever & Ever Hydrangea and enter their landscaping giveaway. You don’t have to buy anything to enter and all entries must be submitted by September 3, 2008. I know we could…

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