I never understood the Itsy Bitsy Spider song when I was a kid. What the heck is a waterspout? Nowadays, children have it easy. Everything is spoon-fed to them. You sing the spider song and see the nice colorful drawings of a rain gutter and the downspout. Oh, that waterspout. Well, it’s been raining quite [...]
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Noisy Rain Gutters Fixed
January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
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Forearm Forklift Saves the Day
November 13th, 2007 · No Comments
How do you rearrange the furniture after moving day? Without the able assistance of movers, we tried to move a heavy Toshiba television. Not one of those modern slim plasma TVs mind you, but a 5-year-old CRT. That big and bulky 200-pound monster was designed to sit in one [...]
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Leica Disto Rocks
June 9th, 2007 · No Comments
Frank Marciano, a Hoboken real estate lawyer, says, “If you only get one thing from this website, let it be to go buy a ruler and check the square footage of your new unit.”
I disagree. Skip the unwieldy yellow metallic ruler. Buy a laser distance meter instead. That’s a mouthful isn’t it? [...]
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Measure, Measure and Measure
December 5th, 2006 · No Comments
In real estate, the three most important things are location, location and location.
When remodeling or rebuilding a house, the three most important things are to measure, measure and measure. When you receive your initial blueprints, compare the measurements to your current living space to get a frame of reference as to how large your [...]
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