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Projects around the home, some very simple, household maintenance

As I do chores around the house like fix my slow drains or light my wood stove, I hope to document anything that makes life easier and more economical.

Save that old smelly sponge!

A tip to get more life out of those kitchen sponges.

The key to lighting a wood stove; and it's usually not in the manual

You fire up the wood stove and 10 minutes later it's out.

Reliable low cost discount long distance service.

When we moved to the Endless Mountains we had to cut expenditures.  Our phone bill was one that was easily improved from 10 cents a minute to 5 cents a minute; it makes a big difference.  Read more and save money! Please do read this review.

Tea Time Tip?

A simple finger saving tip for Tea Time.  A Tea Time Saver!

Mice scratching in the attic ?

I've been fighting them for five years now in our new 27' by 56' modular home in the Endless Mountains.  Attic mice are definitely annoying and over time could do some harm.  The first year they got into our house proper, I solved this one pretty quickly, but the attic has been another story!  Read more, Attic mice.

Installing programmable baseboard thermostats

I've finally been able to install programmable baseboard setback thermostats in our home in the Endless Mountains.  I've documented what I did to complete this setback thermostat installation.  Also I've tried to supply examples of reasonable prices.

Heating our basement, a project with multiple goals.

I wanted to heat our basement, but I also wanted to warm up the flooring on the first floor.  Of course I wanted to do this at a low cost!  Warm toes !.

The following pages will be added in the near future.

Pictorial procedure demonstrating correcting the most common cause of a slow drain  and it's not the trap!

It is, as always, a disgusting chore though.

Repair sliding patio door

Here's one I know needs to be documented.  I monitor what my visitors search for before they arrived at BobsHowTo.  All web sites can do this!  The phrase or words you type in to search for a topic are passed by the search engine in the request to visit the site you clicked on.  Quite a few people have looked for information regarding the repair of sliding patio doors!  So I hope to document this in the not to distant future.