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Thursday, 21 May 2009 09:22 Last Updated on Saturday, 06 June 2009 22:03
Swing Set Layout & Maintenance
Swing sets are a great way to spend time with your kids in the backyard. These play sets can run from a couple hundred dollars to thousands of dollars. The Rainbow set is really the Cadillac of swing sets and they are great play sets. However, if you cannot afford the Rainbow set there are a lot of other great sets that can provide hours of fun.
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If you have an older home without a sump pump you may have the ground water dumping into the sewer line. A good way to tell is that someplace in the basement you will have a clean out close to where the sewer line exists the home. This clean-out is sometimes called a sand trap and it's shaped like a "U" to catch dirt before it enters the sewer line. If you can locate the clean-out it is a good idea to clean it out and check to see if water is still flowing through the system. To clean out the sand trap you can use a wet dry vac.
As kids we all enjoyed finding icicles as the shape and sparkle was intriguing. However, this is the first indication of heat loss from a home. Icicles or ice dams will appear on the bottom edge of the roof. Which indicate some type of heat loss from the home.
