Tips & Tricks

These do it yourself tips and tricks, as always, have an emphasis on low cost, quality, solutions.  

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Do It Yourself Sliding Door Screen sticks

The sliding screen door on your sliding patio door never seems to glide smoothly, here's one tip that may help.  If your sliding screen door is binding click the link above.  When your screen door sticks you can fix it with these tips.  Read more Sliding Screen Door sticks

Lawn Care Tips

Some unique tips for mowing your lawn.  Avoid getting grass cuttings or trimmings on your sidewalk.  Avoid getting grass clippings on your driveway.  Make lawn mowing easier and spend less time mowing and cleaning up afterward!  A landscaping tip to help eliminate edging your sidewalk or eliminate edging your driveway, well at least reduce edging your sidewalk and reduce edging your driveway in general.  Read more Lawn Mowing Tips 

Septic System Odor

Your sitting in your back yard with friends and it smells like your neighbor just fertilized his field the natural way, only he didn't.  A simple non-chemical improvement to your septic system to reduce septic system odor.  Also manufacturer product information regarding antibacterial and antimicrobial agents and their impact on your septic system.  Read more  Septic Tank Odor

It appears A & H have made the following two links invalid.  I did email them about this and they did actually send me a hard copy of the article on septic care.  I don't know as yet whether they will restore this information to their web site.  4/17/2004

http://www.armandhammer.com/Reminders/Septic/body.htm  I'm going to try baking soda myself to reduce septic tank odor, see also, http://www.armandhammer.com/Brochures/body.htm "Sensible Septic Tank care" for an interesting note on pH.
I've discovered the two A&H links above are no longer valid and am inquiring with A&H regarding their former claims.  Bob 04/06/2004

The documents are back in Word format 10/20/2004:
Here is a link to an Arm & Hammer Microsoft Word Doc file with the complete information:
www.armhammer.com/brochure/documents/septic.doc

The Soap and Detergent Association has a nice set of pages assuring us that bleaches and even antibacterial agents won't affect our septic systems! Here is their; Special Report on Septic Tank Systems.

These filters look like they should help.  I have not tried them personally;  Activated Charcoal Filters.

Doorway BO

You walk up to the front door of your house and think, wow, I must need a shower, you check and you don't.  You have some kind of doorway odor that smells like body odor.  It seems like as you approach your house it has BO!  You just can't find the source of that bad odor.  Read more  Doorway BO

Do It Yourself Vinyl Siding Repair

Using this shortcut makes it easy to fix vinyl siding damage.  It also helps solve the vinyl siding repair color mismatch problem.  Repair vinyl siding without the need to remove the damaged portion.  No "Zip" tool required, no nails to pull.  Read more  Fix It Yourself Siding Repair

Sliding Glass Door blocked by snow buildup a tip

Do you have problems closing your sliding glass door after that big snow storm?  Here's a tip that will make it easier to close the sliding patio door in the winter time.   Read more, Close sliding patio door

Tea Time Tip

Here's a simple tip that will save you at Tea Time; a Tea Time Saver !  Read more Tea Time !

College Admission Tip

If your anticipate having difficulty with admission to your college of choice, try this college acceptance tip!  College Admission Tips; a tip.

College tuition costs Tip

Here's one way to drastically reduce your college tuition expenses, if you plan ahead!  High tuition costs for college; a tip.

Move myself tips

We had to move from our 2700 sq ft. home in the burbs to our 1500 sq ft. vacation home in the country, thanks to an "opportunity" afforded me by my employer; a layoff!  Read about some unusual moving tips and tricks.  Please also see:

Moving tips, winches and ramps.

This page was last updated 11/25/2007

Topic: These do it yourself tips and tricks, as always, have an emphasis on low cost, quality, solutions.