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Thursday Tip: Don’t forget those bolts

08/01/2015 by SLS Leave a Comment

Thursday Tip: Don’t forget those bolts

Can you imagine my surprise yesterday when the garage door would only open up about a foot? I was slightly flummoxed as I could manually open it, the garage door opener was working fine, but put together the garage door still wouldn’t go past a foot without the motor tripping. I even looked at the spring […]

Spring Maintenance Checklist

Hometalk & Guest Post: Top 3 Spring Home Maintenance Projects

19/05/2014 by SLS Leave a Comment

A little over a year & a half ago we were referred to HomeTalk by our good friend Paul Hamtil of Hamtil Construction. HomeTalk is a site designed primarily for homeowners looking for advice &/or wanting to show off their DIY projects or crafts. Ahh but what’s so special about that, aren’t there thousand of sites like that? Well […]

Spring Maintenance Checklist Tagged: Guest Posting

May – Late Spring Maintenance Checklist

28/04/2010 by SLS Leave a Comment

May is quite an interesting month. It seems to be a month of first’s and last’s; the last full month of spring, the last day of school, the first of many holidays, the first start to summer vacations, the first gripes on it being to hot, and the list goes on. For most of us, […]

Spring Maintenance Checklist Tagged: BBQ, Grilling

April – Spring Cleaning / Maintenance Checklist

29/03/2010 by SLS 1 Comment

April is the first full month of spring, and shortly the kids will be getting out of school, everyone will be heading out on vacation, and it seems like our weekends will be filled with mowing the lawns and trying to get out of the dreaded honey-do lists. This is also the month that causes […]

Spring Maintenance Checklist Tagged: Cleaning

March – Early Spring Maintenance Checklist

25/02/2010 by SLS Leave a Comment

March and the start of spring, is a great time, as it seems to bring out a new life in everything. The trees start to bloom, the animals that were hibernating are coming back out after their long winter naps, and for many individuals (especially up north) they can finally escape their houses without looking […]

Spring Maintenance Checklist

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