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How To Install Dimmer Switches and Fan Controls
Posted By: d_giordano
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Category: Home Improvement & Gardening;
October 20, 2008
Author Lowes.com;
Website: www.lowes.com
Dimmer switches and fan controls add another degree of convenience to the basic light switch. You can set the mood in a room with the lighting and control a ceiling fan's speed from one convenient location. Fan controls are especially useful in homes with vaulted ceilings where the pull chain on the fan is too high for easy access.
How To Clean Your Home Vinyl Siding With a Pressure Washer
Posted By: d_giordano
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Category: Home Improvement & Gardening;
October 20, 2008
Author Lowes.com;
Website: www.lowes.com
Is your home's exterior looking a little run-down? With a wood-sided house you can always repaint, but what do you do with vinyl siding? You wash it. But, do not dismay—there is no need to scrub the entire house with a brush. Clean up the quick way, with a pressure washer. An average-sized home can be cleaned in a weekend with a 2200 psi or higher pressure washer.
How To Create Wallpaper and Floor Patterns with Stencils
Posted By: d_giordano
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Category: Home Improvement & Gardening;
October 20, 2008
Author Lowes.com;
Website: www.lowes.com
Never stenciled before? You can do this! Use wallpaper stencils on one wall, four walls or a section of the wall above a dining room chair rail. It's fun and easy! Wallpaper and floor stencils are easy-to-use "all over" designs used to recreate the look of fine wallpaper. They can be used with any paint indoors or outdoors on walls, floors and ceilings.
How To Patch and Repair Drywall
Posted By: d_giordano
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Category: Home Improvement & Gardening;
October 20, 2008
Author Lowes.com;
Website: www.lowes.com
Since World War II, drywall (also known as wallboard or gypsum board) is the material most commonly used for interior walls because it is quicker to install than plaster. It is also easier for the average homeowner to repair. Here are several methods for fixing surface defects ranging in size from the smallest dent to large holes of a foot or more.
How To Work With Varnish
Posted By: d_giordano
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Category: Home Improvement & Gardening;
October 20, 2008
Author Lowes.com;
Website: www.lowes.com
