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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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Running power to a garden water feature [7 articles]
Jay Hanig - 2010-07-29 16:52:00 [In: Driveways & Walkways | Electrical & Wiring | Landscaping & Gardening | ]
I live on a coastal island and have a circular pea gravel over sand
driveway. In the center of that circle are two stone lined depressions
that were part of a Japanese garden. One depression has...
Weed Wacker advice needed [11 articles]
desgnr - 2010-07-30 19:24:00 [In: Landscaping & Gardening | Windows & Doors | ]
Which weedwacker would be the best choice,Coordless or Gas Powered ?
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Dell Inspiron
Pentium dual-core 2.2 GHz
2 GB DDR2 SDRAM
Windows Vista Home Premium SP1
--- news://freenews.netfront.n...Contractor's grass seed [11 articles]
Matt - 2010-08-02 08:33:00 [In: Contracting | Landscaping & Gardening | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | ]
Just moved into new construction. Everything in the house seems to be
of average or higher quality, but the grass seed that they spread on
the lawn is coming in extremely clumpy. I will say that i...Haven Noahide Fellowship - Founded in 2007 [3 articles]
saruviel - 2010-08-01 21:06:00 [In: Foundations & Excavation | Garages, Workshops & Sheds | Health & Safety | Landscaping & Gardening | ]
Haven Noahide Fellowship - Founded in 2007
Haven Noahide Fellowship is a rainbow bible-based Noahide Fellowship.
The Rainbow Bible is the traditional set of scriptures known as
Genesis 1 - 11:9...Cord difficult to advance on electric weed trimmer. [8 articles]
limeylew@gmail.com - 2010-08-03 12:22:00 [In: Electrical & Wiring | Landscaping & Gardening | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | ]
I have a Weedeater brand and a Black and Decker brand electric weed
trimmer.
These have some kind of a centrifugal mechanism to advance the cord
but the cord seems jam up VERY frequently on BOTH ...Trying to get rid of dirt [51 articles]
desgnr - 2010-08-05 12:41:00 [In: Decks & Patios | Landscaping & Gardening | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | Windows & Doors | ]
I tried Craigs list
Trash company won't take it.
Any ideas how to get rid of it ?
I wonder is there any negative reasons to puting it under my deck ?
The amount of dirt i have is were i dug it to ...Appliances with mechanical controls not electronics? [13 articles]
Bill who putters - 2010-11-13 01:15:00 [In: Appliances | Cleaning & Sanitizing | Kitchens | Landscaping & Gardening | ]
Seems lately my appliance failures are due to electronic failures.
Dish washer now gone bad twice (Maytag quietseries 300.)
Anyone know of appliances with mechanical control? Gas stove with all...Do they make a tool to clean up threads on a garden hose? [52 articles]
Brent - 2010-08-11 19:37:00 [In: Landscaping & Gardening | ]
Both ends of my garden hoses are kind of beaten up but the brass is still
thick and strong.
Do they make a relatively inexpensive (as compared to the hose) tool to
clean up those threads?
The ...Pressure washer question, will it rip a weed in two? [6 articles]
RickH - 2010-08-07 09:20:00 [In: Cleaning & Sanitizing | Decks & Patios | Landscaping & Gardening | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | ]
I have weeds growing between my patio pavers (lots of them, as I have
been away on vacation for a while). they are a bitch to pull out,
roots are strong.
If I rent a gas powered pressure washer ...A Mystery Whine...solved [2 articles]
Ivan - 2010-08-09 11:51:00 [In: Basements & Crawl Spaces | Bathrooms | Electrical & Wiring | Kitchens | Landscaping & Gardening | ]
Heard a loud, mysterious whine in the bathroom next to my home office.
Audible in the basement, too, loudest under the bathroom. One by one,
turned off each of my 32 breakers. The whine disappeared...OT If you grow your own food read this. [5 articles]
harry - 2010-08-11 21:23:00 [In: Landscaping & Gardening | ]
Dow chemicals pollutes your soil. Again.
http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/321/testing-for-aminopyralid-in-manure/
...What is the exact tap & die size for a USA garden hose thread (it's not NH) [14 articles]
Brent - 2010-08-13 00:07:00 [In: Landscaping & Gardening | ]
From a prior thread, it appears that taps and dies do exist for standard
USA garden hose thread; but one needs to know the exact size of the GHT
which seems to be an openly held secret.
Can we co..."whitetopping" an asphalt drive [13 articles]
Ohioguy - 2010-08-16 20:07:00 [In: Driveways & Walkways | Landscaping & Gardening | ]
We moved into our refurbished (FHA rehab loan) 1979 home back in
March. I had been planning on just applying a couple of those
"squeegee" sealcoats onto the old asphalt drive, but the huge and...Tecumseh 6 horse 2 cycle. [17 articles]
Jeff The Drunk - 2010-08-15 13:23:00 [In: Landscaping & Gardening | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | ]
10 years old, replaced the carb in 2006 at the suggestion of a Lawn Boy
repair shop. Original plastic carb, throttle shaft sticks disabling the
governor. New carb was redesigned supposedly to cure...Charging Battery On Garden Tractor [34 articles]
* US * - 2010-08-16 23:40:00 [In: Health & Safety | Landscaping & Gardening | ]
Did a stupid thing and ran down the battery. Now it's on a 12V 2/6
amp charger. Every two hrs., I remove the charger from the AC source,
negative ground clamp, and positive clamp and attempt to cr...