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How to Hang Exterior Shutters: Overview
This Old House — Shutters are custom-sized, but getting them centered on the window opening has its challenges. So what if you want to crazk up the Bob Seger, slip on the dark sunglasses, turn up your collar, and slide across the living room floor in nothing but ...More…
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Real Oak Rain Barrel
This Old House — Stephen Barry hasn't turned on his outdoor spigot in a year, but last summer his lawn was as lush as any in the neighborhood. Every drop of water he needed for the season came straight from the sky, captured in rain barrels installed behind his ...More…
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How to Install a Window: Overview
This Old House — Cost of window, plus $30 to $50 for other necessary materials To ensure a waterproof, smooth-operating window, you must work methodically and not skip any steps Windows do a lot: help establish a home's visual character, let in light and air, and ...More…
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How to Reglaze a Window: Overview
This Old House — Crack! An errant baseball, a hurled stone, or a falling branch is all it takes to end the life of a windowpane. And for most modern, double-glazed windows, that means a trip to the local glass shop for repairs. But for old-fashioned, ...More…
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How to Install Replacement Windows: Overview
This Old House — About $500 to $600 for a high-performance 36 x 54-inch wood insert replacement window Requires a fair amount of carpentry skills and home-remodeling experience; installation is greatly simplified if window is on ground floor and easily accessible ...More…
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How to Divide Daylilies: Overview
This Old House — You're working with plants that are already a part of your landscape Use care when making divisions and working with root clusters The daylily is one of the easiest perennials to divide. "Daylilies are bulletproofthey can take a lot of abuse ...More…
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How to Prune Small Trees and Shrubs
This Old House — There's a right time-and a right way- to prune. Click the arrow below to see diagrams of pruning cuts Heading cuts remove only part of a shoot or limb and encourage side branching and dense growth. The cut should be made just beyond a healthy ...More…
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Hand Pruners
This Old House — Because my idea of pruning is to fire up a chain saw, I asked Dull pruners make you work harder and leave rough, hard-to-heal wounds. So before you begin a major pruning session, tune up the tool's blade. To make clean cuts with a bypass pruner, ...More…
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Smarter, Faster, Thriftier Composting
This Old House — As great as composting is, it's hardly fast. The DIY approach to a leaf bin will have you aerating, mixing, and monitoring the yield for up to a year before you can use it. Then it's gone in a scoop. If you're impatient or just don't have ...More…
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How to Maintain A Pool: Overview
This Old House — The more often you do it, the easier it is each time On a searing summer day, a swimming pool is a welcome respite from the heat. But before you can dive into its cool blue water, you have to perform all the maintenance drudgery that prolongs its ...More…
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Flower Beds and Borders
This Old House — Let's get right to the point. If you're not irrigating your lawn, flower beds, and container plants using the most targeted, time-efficient methods possible, you're wasting water. Here's our advice for conserving water, time, and money on ...More…
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A Pro Confides His Best Tips for Painting Exteriors
This Old House — Among the many chores that humans tend to botch or rush, repainting a house's exterior must rank near the top. The word slapdash, denoting all acts hurried and shoddy, could have sprung precisely from the near-universal tendency to slap pigment ...More…