With the high costs of fuel today, it pays to save energy and money on home improvement projects where you can. To help with your budgets, here are three awesome products in the marketplace to check out.
1) Hurricane Socks
We always use a number of measures to get rid of dirt and dust from our house. However, it becomes quite difficult to prevent accumulation dirt once the rainy season and hurricane season starts. To prevent water from coming into your house, hurricane socks can help. Made from high quality water absorbing material, hurricane socks are usually 3 inches by 3 – to 4-feet long cylinders of polypropylene packed in strong nylon.
You can place these hurricane socks at the bottom of the doors and windows to prevent possible water dripping and leaking. And surprisingly, these water absorbent socks are able to soak one-gallon water. That means you can change a single hurricane sock after couple of days; simply wring it out, let it air dry and use it – over and over and over again. Crack those tough wet jobs with easy-to-use, economical hurricane socks.
2) Abzorb Mats
Sometimes even after taking all major precautions to keep the house clean, floors – especially the garage and kitchen floors – become dirty and greasy. But don’t worry! An easy solution is to use Abzorb Mats, made of top quality absorbing polypropylene, backed with high quality epoxy resin.
Abzorb Mats:
Keep you garage cleaner and safer from slipping accidents on greasy spots.
Prevent damage to not only flooring (wood, concrete and others) but also walls, cabinets other areas.
Absorb gallons of water, and when the water evaporates from the mat, you can use them over and over and over again.
Are easy to use and clean, and last for years.
Also come in rolls for easy cutting with scissors or other sharp tool.
Available in multiple sizes and affordable price ranges, Abzorb Mats can be used inside your garage, home (under pet dishes, in children’s rooms, under kitchen appliances, etc) and other areas as well as; for example, outside on decks under grills.
3) Draft Stoppers
Along with house cleaning, keeping your home warm is also important, especially during winter season. A central heating system and / or living room fireplace combo is excellent for this purpose, available in local home improvement stores and online.
Note, though, that even if you have your systems and fireplaces in place and running, you need to try hard to prevent possible heat loss, since severe heat loss may overload the systems resulting in overuse of electricity, not to mention excessive energy bills. A simple way to avoid this is to block gaps responsible for heat loss with quality draft stoppers.
A well graded draft stopper is made using finely ground corn cob filled in a cylindrical polypropylene bag, easy to shape as you’d like, and place accordingly. These draft stoppers are long lasting, economical and tough on heat loss.
So give it a try – nothing to lose – - save energy and money with any or all of these 3 nifty home improvement products.
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What are the differences between a cheap water softener from a home improvement store and an expensive one?Didn't really have room for the entire correct question in the title…
I'm planning on getting a water softener for my home and am having problems understanding where companies such as Culligan get their prices.
The house is pre-plumbed.
I feel very confident that I am 100% capable of installing a system on my own.
I know the quality of my water and know what I am looking for in a water conditioning system. (At least I think I know what I am looking for)
I can go to a store like Home Depot or Lowes and buy some water softener that looks like a little trash can (the membrane and the salt storage are a single unit). I would have to install this myself and if I wanted to do it properly get the permits from the city. (Supposedly I have to do this because if I don't install backflow protection I can backflow my membrane into the municipal supply. This is what Culligan told me, I haven't independently verified it.) The unit only costs about $500 though.
Just to see what they would charge, I had Culligan come out and give me a free estimate. They have the systems that look a little more "sturdy" with a separate salt storage unit and one of those membranes that looks like a compressed air cylinder. Their system cost about $3500.
There might be a little difference on some of the bells and whistles, like auto-regeneration and other items, that I would pay much closer attention to when I am deciding on a unit. But what is the big difference between these units?? Is Culligan just trying to overcharge because they are Culligan? Is their unit going to last 7 times as long as the big box retailer's unit?
I know my parents had an expensive "Culligan-esque" softener installed in their home 15 years ago and they have never had any maintenance done and it still works perfectly… It is just so tempting for me to only spend $500-$600 and do the work myself.
Any thoughts or personal experience would be very much appreciated.
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which episode is this from? i love it!
the best way is through friends, and family. If they don't have someone to recommend, then look around your neighborhood. Go to houses that are having work done and ask the homeowner what they think of their contractor. I know a lot of people get scared when they look for someone in this field. But you really shouldn't be. I've been in the industry for many yrs, and 99% of the contractors I know are honest, caring and only want to do a good job for you.