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Alt.Home.Repair - Home Improvement Usenet Group
Alt.Home.Repair is a worldwide Usenet news group that is used to discuss various aspects of Home Improvement.
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The Grass Is Greener When You Don't Mow. [39 articles]
Nehmo - 2010-06-23 09:33:00 [In: Energy Efficiency | Landscaping & Gardening | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | ]
A painless method to reduce the human impact on the environment is to
stop mowing grass.
In general, the only reason for mowing is appearance, and often,
considering the location of the grass, th...
Improvising a lawnmower gas cap [22 articles]
NYLefty - 2010-07-10 05:52:00 [In: Landscaping & Gardening | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | ]
I've somehow lost the cap to the gas tank on my Sears Craftsman push
lawnmower. I found a container cap that fits, but if I use that on
the gas tank the mower quits soon after I start it.
I assu...stop & waste valves, globe-type valves, and pressure regulator valves [4 articles]
mm - 2010-06-24 21:44:00 [In: Foundations & Excavation | Landscaping & Gardening | Pest Control | Plumbing & Water Supply | Walls & Ceilings | ]
I'm considering installing a water-powered sump pump, and the
instructions include:
Pipeline restrictions
Pump should be teed-in before any devices that restrict water flow.
Examples of such d...Red Maple and brass wool [4 articles]
Robert Green - 2010-06-20 07:44:00 [In: Health & Safety | Landscaping & Gardening | Pest Control | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | ]
The logging crane came by today to remove the 2 foot wide 20 foot high stump
left from the chainsawing operation. They put a chain around the top,
tensioned it, and a guy with the longest bladed ch...Sand in Well Water [21 articles]
Dimitrios Paskoudniakis - 2010-06-30 03:09:00 [In: Bathrooms | Landscaping & Gardening | Laundry Rooms | Plumbing & Water Supply | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | ]
I'm in Maryland where it's been hotter than 90 deg every day for almost two
weeks.
I've been watering the lawn for 2-3 hours this morning, my wife watered the
plants, two showers were taken and...Convert fluorescent shop light to grow light? [51 articles]
I have a long counter that gathers junk, in front of large windows facing east and under a huge fluorescent shop light. Good place to grow plants, right? Is it feasible (and reasonable) to swap ou...Okay, more questions partaining to A/C evaporator coils and condensation drip lines... [11 articles]
Dave - 2010-07-02 03:33:00 [In: Landscaping & Gardening | Plumbing & Water Supply | ]
Have just installed a piece into the drip line of my home's central A/C
evaporator unit that will allow me to connect a garden hose and wash out the
line downstream from the evaporator, as well as...I can't get the soil to compact sideways. [15 articles]
MiamiCuse - 2010-07-06 23:08:00 [In: Landscaping & Gardening | Plumbing & Water Supply | ]
In order to replace a section of cast iron sewer pipe below grade, I had to
cut open my concrete slab. The cut is about 10 feet long and two feet wide.
I was fairly certain the pipe was directly ...Testing Air Flow of Electric Pump [11 articles]
DerbyDad03 - 2010-07-07 12:54:00 [In: Bedrooms | Contracting | Electrical & Wiring | Landscaping & Gardening | ]
I've got 2 electric pumps for filling air mattresses. I'm looking for a
way to determine which one will fill an air mattress quicker - other
than actually filling the same air mattress with each...Craftsman push lawnmower wobble after hitting rocks won't start [67 articles]
James H. - 2010-07-14 07:35:00 [In: Landscaping & Gardening | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | ]
What is the typical thing to look for that broke when my lawnmower hit a
stationary object?
I've hit much tougher sets of rocks than the little things that all of a
sudden caused my Craftsman 18 ...Grade 5 or Grade 8 bolts? [19 articles]
Tony - 2010-07-07 10:27:00 [In: Landscaping & Gardening | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | ]
Working on my 40 year old Huskey Bolens garden tractor I found a few
broken bolts in the front end and mounting the engine, they were all
grade 5 bolts, no idea if they had even been out before.
...Do you bother to sharpen your lawn mower blade? Why? [66 articles]
James H. - 2010-07-13 17:48:00 [In: Landscaping & Gardening | Pest Control | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | ]
Does anyone bother sharpening their lawnmower blade?
According to the searspartsdirect web site, it costs about $15 for a new
lawn mower blade for my Craftsman 917.388853 6.5HP 21" push lawn mower...Why not put an electrical copper wire into the weed whacker? [39 articles]
GHenry - 2010-07-11 12:01:00 [In: Electrical & Wiring | Landscaping & Gardening | ]
I have the type of weed whacker that takes about a foot long plastic
"string".
I buy the weed whacker string in bulk, so it's cheap but it only lasts a
few minutes in touch terrain.
I wonder. ...Connector suggestions??? [12 articles]
dpb - 2010-07-07 18:30:00 [In: Health & Safety | Landscaping & Gardening | Pest Control | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | Walls & Ceilings | ]
Found nothing locally suitable; spent hour thru Mouser catalog...
Looking for a polarized panel-mount 2-wire (16 ga/low amp/ ...Electric Weed Eater spinning too fast [8 articles]
It's a RT112C. I don't recommend this model, by the way, for several reasons. Anyway... Apparently it's designed to spin very fast. You would think that's good, but it's not. It causes the ...