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Wire Feed Welder Fixes Bread Maker in Workshop
Updated on November 22nd, 2015
After faithfully producing hundreds of loaves of bread over the last 8 or 9 years, the spindle on our hardworking...Continue Reading
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How I Became “Cool” and Energy Efficient Ins...
Updated on November 22nd, 2015
Villum Kann Rasmussen: Skylight Inventor and Founder of Velux During the summer of 2006 I had the good fortune to...Continue Reading
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Canada’s Tradesperson Shortage a Function of Our E...
Updated on November 22nd, 2015
This past Saturday I had the chance to share dinner with a Swiss-trained carpenter living with his wife and young...Continue Reading
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Use Zinc Strips to Prevent Roof Moss From Forming
Updated on November 22nd, 2015
William liked my recent column on roofs in the Ottawa Citizen, especially the part about using zinc strips to prevent...Continue Reading
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Insulating a Gas Furnace Air Intake Pipe
Updated on January 17th, 2016
A regular reader named Ed has a gas furnace air intake pipe that sweats condensation during cold weather It gets bad...Continue Reading
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Should Cool Air be Coming from a Heat Recovery Ventilator
Updated on November 22nd, 2015
Marlyse reads my column in the Ottawa Citizen, and she’s concerned about the cool air coming in from her newly...Continue Reading
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Ridding a Roof of Moss
Updated on November 22nd, 2015
A homeowner wrote me concerned about moss on the roof of a house he was considering buying In “Rooftop Moss...Continue Reading
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Growing Green
Updated on November 22nd, 2015
The idea of spreading fertilizer on your lawn in the fall just as leaves are changing colour and falling may seem odd,...Continue Reading
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Steaming Roofing Troubles a Thunder Bay Man
Updated on November 22nd, 2015
A reader from Thunder Bay, Ontario just sent me an email because he’s sick with worry His roof is steaming on sunny...Continue Reading
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Trouble with Water Leaking into a Basement
Updated on October 29th, 2014
A homeowner plagued with water leaking into their basement wrote in to ask me for advice It can be an expensive...Continue Reading