By: Hal Jones Second Part of Securing a Vacation or Lake Home. How-To Install Surveillance Cameras in a Vacation or Lake Home, Where Remote Surveillance Using the Internet or Smartphone is Necessary In the first section we covered deterrents, now we cover surveillance as a means of protecting property in a remote vacation home or […]
Weekend Projects
Aerate Your Lawn For Healthier Grass
Here in the South, spring or fall are the best times for aeration. In our area, heavy clay soils require frequent aeration, but check with your local officials to determine what is best for your yard. I use a Husqvarna GTH-26 garden tractor to pull my Agri-Fab Plug/Core Aerator with 100 pounds of concrete block […]
Using Acrylic Blocks To Bring In The Light, Basement Bath Design idea
One of the issues when doing a basement makeover is light. Since basements are typically below grade, natural light is often hard to come by. However many basements have at least one side that opens to the outside and our basement bath was in need of natural light. One of the ways to accomplish this […]
Add a Radiant Barrier to Your Attic and It’s Time to Check Your Insulation
Yesterday, we installed an Enerflex reflective barrier in the attic of a local house. Our goal was to reflect the heat build occurring from the sun heating up the surface of the roof and reflecting the heat up and out of the attic, lowering air conditioning bills in the summer. While installing the product we could certainly […]
Weekend Wrap Up, Husqvarna Garden Tractor Speed Test, Pressure Washing to Prep for Painting
A whirlwind of projects went on this past weekend, despite the forecast of rains. All but one of the projects scheduled were exterior and the forecast was for a rainy Saturday and Sunday, but the only rain, was a brief shower Saturday after midnight. So the projects went ahead as scheduled. With GPS in hand, […]
Post-Weekend Update On Husqvarna GTH 26 Garden Tractor, RedMax 7150 Blower and Flashlights
This weekend was one of the hottest in years with triple digit highs and heat index of more than 110 degrees, so outside work was kept to very little. Since my neighbors were having a reunion on Saturday, I went out early to cut the grass along the shoreline and to blow the driveways […]
Step-By-Step Swimming Pool Motor Replacement
Those of you keeping up with the trials and tribulations know about the swimming pool pump and motor giving up the ghost after many years of operation. Yesterday afternoon I went by my local swimming pool company and purchased a Hayward 1.5 HP Super Pump and also a new bag for the Polaris, total bill was a little over […]
Family Gardening Update Number Two
It has been two weeks since we planted the patio planter and already we are seeing blooms and some fruit setting. You can see from the below images how sturdy the plant stems are. Since the potting soil had fertilizer already in it,
Getting Your Swimming Pool Ready for the Coming Season
After years of getting my parents pool ready for the summer months, I have finally given up any hope of being able to uncover the pool, add chlorine and let the swimming begin. The attached picture is after a few hours of ph adjustment, chlorine hyper-shock therapy and a large dose of algaecide. When I […]
Plant a Family Garden
Growing up in Alabama, my mother always had a garden. When we lived in the country, the garden was on a plot below our house. But when we moved to Birmingham, my mom began gardening on some acreage at my grandfather’s house that was really a flood plain for Five Mile Creek. I ran the […]