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		<title>Accutire MS-4350B Tire Gauge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the price of gas over $4/gallon, I have been paying close attention to the maintenance on my car. After using my old tire gauge, I found it was off by about 5 pounds. Ouch! I had pumped my tires to what I thought was 35psi. The new day the gauge said they were at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/accutire-ms-4350b-tire-gauge.html</link>
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		<title>Black and Decker air compressor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With gas prices getting higher and higher everyday, I have been paying more attention to the maintenance on my car. FOr instance, I have been trying to make sure the tires are properly inflated.
I had a small tire inflator thing that plugged into the lighter socket. The pressure gauge was broken on it from have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/black-and-decker-air-compressor.html</link>
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		<title>Honda Civic tune up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the rising price of gas, I thought it would be a good idea to do a tune up on my 2000 Honda Civic. I have almost 140,000 miles on it. It has been running great, but still. I think the last tune up it had was around 90,000 miles.
I bought new plugs (NGK platinum), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/honda-civic-tune-up.html</link>
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		<title>How do I get rid of carpenter ants?!?!?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the drawbacks of living in a house surrounded by woods seems to be the &#@!*% ants! Most of the ants are just annoying, but I frigging hate the carpetner ants! A few days ago, I found a line of carpenter ants coming along the edge of the driveway and up the corner of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/how-do-i-get-rid-of-carpenter-ants.html</link>
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		<title>Wireless door bell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we bought our house a half dozen years ago, there was no door bell. I have wanted to install one, but there are always so many other things to do. There was also the thing that rarely does anyone come to our front door. Most people come in through the garage. So when we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/wireless-door-bell.html</link>
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		<title>Stacking firewood with T-posts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was watching a show about the bar-b-que places around the country. One of the guys at one od the places was talking about the importance of the wood. Then they flashed a picture of rows and rows of firewood all neatly stacked. I was envious. The ends were nice and square. I looked close [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/stacking-firewood-with-t-posts.html</link>
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		<title>Installing electric baseboard heater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The primary heating in our house is electric baseboard heaters. The house is a post &#038; beam style, so not much else would work well. Last eyear I replaced all the old thermostats with newer programmable ones. They are very good, and help keep the temperatures more consistent.
In our bedroom area, there were two baseboard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/installing-electric-baseboard-heater.html</link>
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		<title>Moving firewood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The guy I called about firewood is supposed to call me back next week to arrange a time and day to drop off the first of two cords. Its going to cost me $70/face this year. Think about the same as last year. I still have a cord of wood leftover from what I bought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/moving-firewood.html</link>
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		<title>Buying firewood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I bought 3 full cords (9 face cords) or firewood. But January was warm, so we didn&#8217;t end up burning all of the wood. We still have about a cord of firewood left. So I have been looking to buy another 2 full cords.
The guy we bought the firewood from the last two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/buying-firewood.html</link>
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		<title>Caulking a bathtub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we moved into our house, the caulking on the bathtub was in poor condition. I removed the caulk, and recaulked it with non-silicone caulk. It lasted quite a while (about 4 years), but after a while separated some letting water in. The first sign of this came yesterday when I asked my wife why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/caulking-a-bathtub.html</link>
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		<title>Threaded rod anchors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all my research into how to attach my ledger board to my cement block foundation, it keeps coming back to the threaded rod anchors. That being settled, the hard part is finding the things. Home Depot and Lowes don&#8217;t carry them. The carry Red Head anchors, but Red Head doesn&#8217;t make the threaded rod [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/threaded-rod-anchors.html</link>
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		<title>Wedge anchors wont work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I swapped a bunch of emails with a guy from Red Head, and he suggested the wedge anchors wont work for me. He thought that they were too strongs, and that they might potentially crack the cement blocks. Apparently they are designed for solid concrete. His suggestion was aither the sleeve anchors, or the epoxy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/wedge-anchors-wont-work.html</link>
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		<title>Concrete anchors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been debating about what kind of anchors to use to attach my ledger board to the cement block foundation of my house. I have been comparing epoxy anchors versus wedge anchors.
The epoxy anchors seem to be much more expensive when figuring in the cost of the epoxy. I was concerned about whether the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/concrete-anchors.html</link>
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		<title>DeWalt hammer drill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I have my deck raised back up and levelled, I need to reattach the ledger board to the cement block foundation. I have been researching different types of anchors, but they all require that I drill into the cement blocks. So I am going to need a hammer drill.
I checked Harbor Freight. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/dewalt-hammer-drill.html</link>
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		<title>Expansion anchors or epoxy anchors?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to Home Depot and was looking around. I checked out the deck book again, and saw that they recommended inserting the thread studs into the concrete blocks 3 inches. Other than that, there was no new info.
I tried to find someone to ask, but could find no help. I found some Red Heard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/expansion-anchors-or-epoxy-anchors.html</link>
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		<title>How to attach the ledger board to the foundation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I have my deck raised back up, and sitting on temporary supports, I need to figure out the best way to attach the ledger board to the cement block foundation.
I found a book at Home Depot on decks, and it showed how to drill a hole through the ledger board, and into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/how-to-attach-the-ledger-board-to-the-foundation.html</link>
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		<title>Raising my deck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My deck collapsed a month or two ago. Just a foot or so in the middle next to the house. I pulled some of the planks closest to the house to diagnose the problem. Apparently the ledger board had not been adequately attached, and became detached from the foundation.
I don&#8217;t want to rip apart the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/raising-my-deck.html</link>
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		<title>ADT security system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have had our ADT security system for almost as long as we have owned our house. There was an alarm system in the house when we moved in, but it was older, and probably hadn&#8217;t been used in a while. The tech guy came in, and found many of the components didn&#8217;t work. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/adt-security-system.html</link>
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		<title>New drip bowls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back I screwed up and replaced the drip bowls on our Kenmore stove with new drip bowls. They were generic drip bowls that I bought at the grocery store. I threw the old drity ones away. The new drip bowls didn&#8217;t fit right. The mis fit was subtle. The bowls didn&#8217;t sit totally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.how-to-home.com/new-drip-bowls.html</link>
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		<title>Melnor aqua timer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to set up my sprinklers on some sort of timer so they would automatically turn on for a little while every day. I went to Home Depot, and they had some fancy looking timers for $40. But there was a more simple looking timer for $25. That was the Melnow Electronic Aqua Timer [...]]]></description>
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