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How to Budget for and Design an Outdoor Kitchen

A well-equipped outdoor kitchen can be the crowning glory of your backyard bash. You’ll have as many options for appliances and fixtures as you would in any indoor kitchen. However, it may be difficult to discover what you need at a price that fits your budget. To get you started, we polled experts on the best places to spend money and where to cut costs without sacrificing quality in an outdoor kitchen. Think about how […]

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Do-It-Yourself Air Purifier and Covid-19

Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, evidence which includes voluminous amounts of peer-reviewed research, has accumulated that the virus causing COVID-19, is airborne. As we’ve learned over the past couple of years, indoor gatherings can be associated with “superspreading events.” Engineers have been working on methods to improve ventilation, with the intention of reducing indoor viral loads. Air purifiers with HEPA filtration can be expensive, costing over $500. Richard Corsi, the incoming

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2023 Homeowner DIY Trends

What Are Homeowners Planning for 2023? While the top home improvement projects in 2022 focused on heating-related upgrades, the focus will shift to general household maintenance in 2023. Homeowners want to keep their homes in good condition by doing things like lawn care, house cleaning, and other routine tasks. Listen to this week’s episode (12/30/2022) of You Got This! to hear us discuss these trends. 1. Maintenance Maintenance tasks ranked first, with 29% of those

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Mid Century Modern Bird House

This week on You Got This! we discussed this super cool looking, relatively easy to make, bird house! Here’s the information and the link, if you want to dress up your yard with these cheerful, PVC based bird houses. Simple PVC Birdhouse You will need the following tools and materials to make a PVC birdhouse. (If you have access to a CNC machine this would be SO much easier. You could cut precise wooden circles

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Air Conditioning Tips for Your Auburn Home

The following is information you should know and use to help assure that your Auburn Air-conditioning is keeping you as cool as possible and working and cooling as efficiently as possible, saving you money. The following should help you decide if you need ABT Plumbing, Electric, Heat Air to service your Air-conditioning unit.

(1) Air filter(s) MUST be clean. They should be located near the return air duct adjacent to the air handler or in a return air grill(s). Check your air filter every 30 to 90 days to make sure it is clean. Depending of the house, i.e. if you have animals you may need to clean the air filter more often. (Go clean them now!)

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