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Archive for July 2008

July 18th, 2008

Heat Your Home for Days Using Water and Wood – Burns Clean

I did a post back in December on my own blog about a friend of mine, Tom, who put together a smokeless wood burner/boiler system to heat his home and two outside greenhouses during the winter months. 
I know it’s summer, and right now it’s enough to think about staying cool, much less warm… but […]

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July 17th, 2008

Not to Do: Sandstone Path

I find the more projects I do, the more I also realize that there are some things that just are not meant to be done.  Sometimes this is through experience, but many times it’s just in viewing the long term consequences of someone else’s actions.
Around the house we are renting, there is a stonework path.. […]

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July 16th, 2008

Non-Working Outside Faucet - Quick and Dirty Solution.

I have an outside faucet that doesn’t work.  While I don’t have the monetary resources at the moment (nor the desire to dirty myself up in the crawlspace today on a longer project) I do need another working faucet that I can hook a garden hose up to. It also has to be a cheap […]

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