Category Archives: Home Improvement

Constructing a Brick Fence

Brick fences can be considered the most secure fence as it is permanent and offers complete privacy. Not only that, they can also act as noise barriers if your house faces a busy road. However, it is very hard to construct and might require professional skills. The simplest brick fence that you can construct yourself ...

Constructing a bamboo cane fence

Bamboo cane fences are a cheaper, sturdy, environmentally friendly alternative to wood or barbed wire fences that provide a more natural look to your garden. They offer as much privacy and protection from intruders as its tips might be sharpened to prevent unwanted visitors from climbing over or under the fence. Constructing a bamboo cane ...

Maintaining your Solar Hot Water Heater

When you use a solar hot water heater, it will capture the sun\'s energy and then use it to heat up the water for your house usage. The two basic types of solar water heating systems are active or passive. With proper and simple maintenance, your solar hot water heating system should be able to ...

Recycling Metal

In the United States alone, according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), recycling of scrap metals reaches up to 150 million metric tons for a year which includes 85 million tons of iron and steel, 5.5 million tons of aluminum, 1.8 million tons of copper, 2 million tons of stainless steel, 1.2 million ...

Saving energy for your Home

In order to improve the energy efficiency of your home, you can do the plugging method which is also known as air sealing of areas in your house where air can get in or get out easily. This is the most important first steps to make when weatherizing your house for increasing its energy efficiency. ...

Saving energy for Furnaces

It does not matter if you are using furnaces running on fuel oil, propane, or natural gas because whatever the source is the end results is you create heat with a flame. Every time the furnace is turned on, the source will be used and furthermore the house heat increases with the furnace being turned ...

Saving energy for Gardening

Everywhere around the world, people are trying to come up with a lot of energy saving ideas for gardening work such as to conserve water and also reducing other kinds of energy that are being used when you are doing gardening work. In order to save energy for gardening, below are some of the things ...

Saving Energy for Fireplaces

Fireplaces provide a wonderful ambiance and also reduce heating bill expenses. It is also built for providing heat during winter, and also for cooking meals. Nowadays, it is just a décor and also as an alternative choice of electric heating. In order to save energy for your own fireplaces, below are some of the things ...

Recycling At Home

Be Responsible Instead of blaming industrialists for causing environmental catastrophe, take a look at our own backyard. We are just as responsible in harboring hazardous products and increasing pollutants which harm the earth. And it is time now to protect our planet.Learn to Separate Before throwing all your rubbish into the trash bin, separate your wastes into ...

Choosing the right way for electricity

Solar Energy – The Energy Saver Fossil fuels and sunlight are natural resources. Which is better for electricity?, you may wonder. The main differences here are sunlight is a renewable energy and has no carbon emission to the atmosphere compared to fossil which is non-renewable and creates greenhouse effect. Solar energy is essentially converting direct sunlight into ...

Saving Energy for Windows

Windows are designed to provide nice scenery, day-lighting, air ventilation, and also solar heating during the winter. If you are not using the ENERGY STAR type of windows, your sunny windows will be the main reason for your heating bill to increase from 10 to 25 percent due to the air conditioner working harder in ...

Recycle Cans

Aluminum cans are the most favorite recycled materials among consumer nowadays. It is also easier to recycle cans because in most public areas you will find recycling containers next to the garbage containers. Besides that, you can also receive a small amount of money for recycling cans from your buy-back recycling center. If you recycle ...

Start Going Green with Recycling Bins

Do SomethingEveryone talks about going green. Everyone talks about recycling. What should you do about it then? If your local authority does not run a recycling program and you have no tools to support your initiative, get recycling bins. These are great helpers to keep your mind to throw your different rubbish into different bins.Spread ...

Recycle Wood

Trees that we can find all over the world plays a very important role especially in sustaining the earth environment. It absorbs all the carbon dioxide and provides oxygen to us, plus also giving shades to humans, livestock, small plants and animals. That is why we should give high importance to the need of recycling ...

Reusing a t-shirt

A t-shirt is one of the clothing which is undeniably the most common and popular amongst us. Some of us have a lot of t-shirt collections inside our drawers. In order to declutter your full drawer or wardrobe, reuse some of your old t-shirts in order to make it look like a new one. Below ...

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