Home maintenance
Foundation problems in the Triangle: a true story
It starts with the clay The Chapel Hill/Durham area is famous for its shrink/swell clay soils, and it’s not uncommon to have settlement cracks around sheetrock corners and windows. Sometimes we see cracks in foundations, and if a house is brick the cracking becomes even more obvious. This is especially true in an area called [...]
Don’t let this happen in your yard!!
North Carolina is full of ivy. And kudzu – we have lots of kudzu. I’ll be posting lots of kudzu monster photos this summer. Then there’s poison ivy – the Southern kind that if left untended turns into great snakes of vine-y badness that wraps all over everything. But for now we’re talking about [...]
Tips to increase the life of your appliances
One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that as appliances become cheaper and cheaper they don’t last as long. My mother’s toaster, which was a wedding gift in 1950, just gave up the ghost a few years ago. My old washer which I purchased in 1986 was still going strong in 1998 but the [...]
