13.11.2008 02:00
Hands-on time: Less than an hour.Total time: Add a couple of hours for paint to dry.Skill: Super easy.Project cost: Less than $12.
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13.11.2008 02:00
Q: How should I insulate a cold floor underneath a bay window that juts over my open front porch? I've removed all the old wood covering the underside of the floor frame, and I have a clean slate. What's the best way to preserve and seal this space so the bay window up above is warm?
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16.04.2008
A new line of milk debuting in three Milwaukee-area stores next week banks on the willingness of consumers to pay twice as much for milk labeled and marketed as "humanely produced.
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16.04.2008
Q: What's the best product for painting my concrete basement floor? It has a few small cracks. Is there a product that can be used to fill these gaps before painting? A: The best basement floor coatings do three things well.
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16.04.2008
If you still have wimpy daylilies in your garden, with stems as limp as old celery and flowers that look like wet crepe paper you're living in the past. The newer daylilies are robust specimens with cosmic coloured flowers, and stems sturdy enough to club a mugger.
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16.04.2008
Good marriages change people, and some of my own post-nuptial recalibration involved vacuum cleaners. My wife was raised in a central-vacuum household. I came from a strictly hand-pushed, upright-vac tradition. "Central vacs are overkill", I used to preach. "Nobody needs to get that fancy.
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09.04.2008
Q: Do I need to do something about the metal rod holes in my poured concrete basement walls? The house was built 20 years ago, and a contractor who specializes in removing the metal and patching the cavities has fixed the rod holes below the existing insulation along the top of the wall.
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09.04.2008
Mequon - Mark Metcalf, a Bayside resident who won fame in the movie "Animal House" and has continued to act locally, has sold his interest in the Libby Montana restaurant to his former wife, Linda Wick.
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09.04.2008
The beer that made Milwaukee famous hopes to stage a comeback by returning to a brewing formula discarded over 30 years ago. Schlitz had been available only in cans for several years until the brand's owner, Pabst Brewing Co., began selling it in bottles last year in Minneapolis and Tampa, Fla.
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04.04.2008
Three new craft beer spinoffs from Miller Lite will be launched nationwide as Miller Brewing Co. continues to exploit a growing consumer preference for craft beers.
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04.04.2008
Q: Does it make sense for me to replace my furnace? The one I have now is 21 years old and rated to operate at 85% efficiency. I'm receiving subtle pressure from the furnace maintenance folks to replace the old furnace with a higher efficiency model that's supposed to achieve 92% to 96% efficiency.
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27.03.2008
In my bedroom there lives a haunted dresser. It's a tall old 'highboy' built in the 1940s and it belonged to my Dad for over 50 years. In the night it speaks in volleys of ten pops and creaks per 3-second phrase.
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