Automotive DIY Projects plus Home & Money Saving Ideas
How to Save 20% and More on your Appliances! Recently we had a couple of posts showing how easy it is to pickup Lowes Coupons and Gift Cards from eBay. With most major holidays, stores take advantage and provide discounts and rebates on major appliances. While seeing an appliance discounted 20%, 25% or even 40% is…
Installing a Garden Hose Reel In our last post, we planted our new Lychee tree on the front lawn. So, now that she’s in, we’ll need to water her. In keeping with our home’s complete lack of normal things, the front faucet did not have anything to hang a hose. So to make life…
Planting a Lychee Tree So if you read our prior post on cutting down the vast majority of trees that were in our backyard you’d see that we have a ton of space now. While it took several months to level out the backyard and the good part of a year to get grass…
Renting a Tree Stump Grinder So if you read our prior post on cutting down the vast majority of trees that were in our backyard you’d realize we have around 100 stumps to take care of. Every time I’ve cut a tree in the past the stump is always an issue. Rarely can you…
Cutting Trees & Cleaning the Backyard Before I get started on this DIY I want to state that I love trees. My family and I are very nature oriented. We love taking the kids to the park, we love having our own fruit trees and we love having our herb garden. That being said, when…
Home Demolition – Part 5: Dumpster Rental At this point, almost everything that needed to be removed has been torn down. Our progress then is: Remove all carpeting (Part 1 of our Demolition) Strip any walls that would need to be worked on (electrical, A/V, etc…) (Part 1 of our Demolition) Remove (and try to save)…
Having completed the majority of the demolition we were still staring at a house full of tile. So far we had been able to: Remove all carpeting (Part 1 of our Demolition) Strip any walls that would need to be worked on (electrical, A/V, etc…) (Part 1 of our Demolition) Remove (and try to save) the…
I never thought the demolition stage of our renovation would have taken so long. By this point we were already multiple weeks in, having to work predominantly on the weekends. So far we had been able to: • Remove all carpeting (Part 1 of our Demolition) • Strip any walls that would need to be…
In the prior demolition post we went over our general goals and highlighted a few unexpected issue that arose. Our updated demolition guideline is currently: • Remove all carpeting • Strip any walls that would need to be worked on (electrical, A/V, etc…) • Remove (and try to save) the kitchen cabinets • Remove the…
The Story: When we purchased our house nearly two years ago we were faced with a decision that every homeowner has, to mow our own lawn or hire a lawn guy. Clearly, I’m not the type to hire something out if I can do it myself. And quite frankly mowing one’s own lawn is an…
So if you’ve ever seen a home renovation show there’s always a demolition segment where the homeowner gets handed a sledgehammer and they typically take a swing at a kitchen counter or what not. I get it, it makes for good TV. What you don’t usually see in that TV segment is the small army…