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How to Plan a Green Landscape

By llreynolds

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We all know that conservation and environmental awareness has to begin at home. There are numerous things we can do to take the next step to having a "green" homestead. Keeping a few simple rules in mind will help our choices for greenest part of ... more »

How to Plan an Outdoor Room

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Enhancing the outdoor areas of your home can increase the home's value while giving you more space to enjoy. An outdoor room is a great way to add on to your home without major remodeling costs. Learn how to plan an outdoor room by following ... more »

How to Plan Lighting for an English Garden

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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The English garden began appearing in England (where it is known simply as a "landscape garden") in the middle of the 18th century. The traditional English garden features water, statues and the natural blooms of the surrounding countryside. You ... more »

How to Plant a Natural Privacy Screen

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Fast-growing twining vines trained to climb string make a great natural privacy screen for decks, porches or other areas that could use a living wall that still lets some light shine through. With just a few inexpensive materials, you'll soon ... more »

How to prepare concrete for an overlay or resurface.

By DoctaBiz

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When the surface of concrete is severely damaged, and there is no small repair that can remedy the problem. Deciding to resurface the concrete is the most inexpensive and affective way to achieve your desired results. I recommend using an ... more »

How to Prevent Vinyl Pool Tears

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Vinyl pools are a great alternative to permanent pools and can provide hours of summer fun for your family. Preventing vinyl pool tears is the only way to ensure more than one season of fun with your pool. Taking some simple precautions before ... more »

How to Protect a Cabin

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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New technology has produced an abundance of great home-security methods, but in the case of a cabin, a rural building that is many times "off the grid", many of these won't apply. Ways to protect a cabin are more low-tech, and require a little ... more »

How to Protect Off-Street Parking

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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For many city dwellers, off-street parking is a real asset, especially in high-crime areas or during a snowstorm. But it's difficult to maintain access to key off-street spots. To protect your off-street parking, consider who may be threatening ... more »

How to Protect Your Mailbox from Mailbox Baseball Destruction

By Melos

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If you live in a community where young people joyride through the streets playing mailbox baseball, you have probably wasted quite a bit of money buying new mailboxes. Instead of replacing, teach the vandals a lesson and create a mailbox ... more »

How to put ketchup on an antbed

By weazelking

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You know you want to. xD.. more »

How to Raise Goldfish in a Garden Pond

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Water features in the yard have become a popular and tranquil addition to the landscape; and every pond should have its residents, particularly koi goldfish. These beautiful creatures can live for many years if cared for correctly. Raising koi ... more »

How to Rattlesnake-Proof a Backyard

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Rattlesnakes aren't a common household problem, but, depending on your locale, they can sliter onto your property and throw everyone into a panic. You can prevent these creatures from invading your yard by taking some precautions... more »

How to recive free solar panels anywhere

By krzys555

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this will teach you how to get free solar panels from where you live.. more »

How to Recycle Tin Cans

By Sheila Wilkinson

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There's never going to be a shortage of tin cans in the average American kitchen. Finding uses for them or at least for some of them is economical and ecologically sound. Why fill up the landfills when you can reuse them? Here are a handful of ... more »

How to Reinforce a Wire Gate

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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A wire gate is a great and simple way to keep wild animals, the neighbor's pet and children out of your garden or yard. It can also keep small animals in place and out of harm's way. Take your time to examine and reinforce a wire gate... more »

How to Remove a Dead Backyard Tree

By Juliet Myfanwy Johnson

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You've been looking out at that tree in your yard for a few years now. It hasn't blossomed. It hasn't had any new leaf growth. You've checked it closely and seen that there isn't any potential for saving this dry, cracking tree. Now you have to ... more »

How to Remove Barnacles From a Dock

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Barnacles are related to shellfish such as shrimp and crabs. They are living creatures, members of the crustacean family and a great nuisance to not only fiberglass boats, but docks as well. Barnacles attach themselves to wood, aluminum and any ... more »

How to Rent a Skid Steer

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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A skid steer machine is a very useful tool for all kinds of home improvement projects (or even public works jobs). Whether you're doing snow removal, earth moving, post hole digging, or many other kinds of projects, visit your local renter to see ... more »

How to Repair a Crack in a Concrete Pond

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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A sudden loss of water in a concrete pond means there's a crack somewhere. This can be caused by damage from freezing and thawing or by the settling of the ground underneath the pond, or even by an earthquake. If you've got a leak, most often ... more »

How to Repair an Electric Fence

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Your electric fence is essentially the simplest kind of circuit. But though a lot of repairing a fence may be intuitive or easy in theory, a long and winding fence perimeter, or tree lines or other issues, can make fence repair more difficult. ... more »

How to Replace an Outdoor Ceiling Fixture

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Replacing a broken or outdated ceiling fixture on your porch or deck can add greatly to the curb appeal of your home. Warm light at your entryway invites guests to come up and be welcome... more »

How to Run Electricity to a Pole Barn

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Although running electricity to a pole barn can be dangerous, you can do it yourself if you simply follow some basic safety rules. Planning is a key phase; if you do careful planning followed by quality work, you can have a safely wired pole ... more »

How to Seal concrete.

By DoctaBiz

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Concrete should be protected. To keep your concrete looking like it was brand new, you just need to apply a new coating. There are many water resistance sealers on the market. The best are acrylic sealers. One coat of an acrylic sealer is equal ... more »

How to Seal Off a Gate

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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You have a wooden fence or a metal fence with a gate that opens to another area. Now you no longer need the gate in your fence. Seal off the gate so no one can open or close it and create a secure area... more »

How to Select an Outdoor Ceiling Fan

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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A ceiling fan under your patio cover or porch veranda adds an element of comfort to your outdoor living area. Outdoor ceiling fans must be moisture resistant and must meet industry regulations for this in order to be sold as an outdoor ceiling ... more »

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