Depending on the laws in your area, you may not need a sump pump. For example, if you've never had standing water in your basement and it's consistently warm and dry, a sump pump probably wouldn't do you much good. However, if the area under your house floods occasionally or fe...
Depending on the laws in your area, you may not need a sump pump. For example, if you've never had standing water in your basement and it's consistently warm and dry, a sump pump probably wouldn't do you much good. However, if the area under your house floods occasionally or fe...
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Whether you're a first-time homeowner or have owned a home for years, here’s how you can buy a homeowners insurance policy: Decide what you want to cover. Determine how much homeowners insurance you need. Choose an insurance company. Choose a policy. 1. Decide what you want to cover ...
Don’t worry too much. Just get it as neat as you can. Using other fabric is of course easier and you are welcome to use “normal” fabric too! Fold the fabric in half so you get a square. Make sure the “right side” of the fabric is on the INSIDE of your fold. So the ...
Too Much Water Can Undermine Your Home If you worry about a wet or damp basement, a busy sump pump, or muddy puddles in your yard after a heavy rainfall, this story is for you. We want to introduce you to a new tool to improve drainage. Read on to learn how to build a rain gard...
And thousands of gallons of water is probably going to be too much for your yard to handle. You don’t want all those chemicals in your grass or the groundwater, anyway. The usual process is to direct all that water down one of your home’s sewer cleanouts, but some areas may allow...
“On a repipe, it’s not so much about the actual piping job you are paying for. In many cases, most of your money is going into the planning, prepping, layout and repairing after the pipes go in,” says Bradley Arnold, founder/president of BACS, Inc., a Kingsport, Tenn.-based ...
The tale of the "cut hunter" is just a theory, but it's considered one of the most plausible scenarios for how a simian immunodeficiency virus jumped from chimps to humans and became HIV. Remarkably, we do know for certain where the crossover happened because scientists can track it. Like...
If your cistern is aboveground and higher than your faucets, you can use the weight of the water as pressure to get it into your home. Belowground cisterns require a pump to get the water to you, much like a well. If you want a cistern, you need to live in an area that gets enou...