Home & Garden

How to Make Thermite from Scratch

December 15, 2009

Today, boys and girls, we’re going to learn how to make thermite. Let’s get something straight: thermite is not an explosive. It’s just some powder that burns REALLY (4500 degrees Fahrenheit) hot. Thermite was originally discovered in 1893 and found to be an excellent welding tool. Today, it’s primarily used by the railway industry to [...]

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How to Make a Rain Barrel (aka garden water butt)

December 11, 2009

Rain barrels, or water butts if you drive on the left-hand side of the road, may appear to have a prohibitively high initial cost but will very quickly pay for themselves in water bill savings: lots of homes use small-scale rain barrels to gather relatively small amounts (55 gallons) of water for gardening use instead [...]

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How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs

December 11, 2009

Bed bugs are parasitic insects that live entirely by drinking the blood of, primarily, humans. Bedbugs are mostly only active at night and can usually bite you and feed without you awakening. They were almost completely eradicated as pests in the early 1940s, but have, in the last decade or so, come back in nearly [...]

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How to Get Rid of Fleas in Your House

December 11, 2009

So, I take it you’ve been doing a bit more scratching lately than you might have liked to? Well, either you or your pet have. If you or your pet have fleas, keep in mind that only around 5% of the total fleas in your house are actually living ON you or your pet, the [...]

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How to Make a WiFi Antenna (signal booster)

December 10, 2009

I’m going to show you how to make a really simple and cheap (you’ve probably got everything you need: really just a printer to print the template and some aluminum foil) directional WiFi antenna that will significantly boost your signal beyond what most of the commercial antennas are capable of doing (sounds crazy, but just [...]

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How to Make Soap (homemade lye soap, all natural)

December 9, 2009

Making your own natural soap at home is a very easy and inexpensive process that you can learn how to do in about 10 minutes and then once you’ve got the necessary materials it’ll take about as long to actually make the soap itself (although the soap will need to set for a while longer [...]

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How to Get Up Fast, Eat Breakfast, Get Dressed and Be Ready for Work in Under 5 Minutes

December 2, 2009

I’m just posting this for shits ‘n giggles, I thought this was really funny and also really impressive, and of course this sort of thing only occurs on a Japanese game show, enjoy:

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How to Mount a Flat Screen TV on the Wall Correctly

December 1, 2009

Today we’re going to learn how to mount any type of flat screen TV to a wall in your home–plasma, LCD, it doesn’t matter. If it’s flat screen, and you want it on your wall, and you want it done properly then stick around, I’ve got exactly what you need. Most flat screen TVs don’t [...]

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How to Clean Granite Countertops Properly

December 1, 2009

First of all, as a general guideline, all natural stone countertops should have some type of a sealer applied to them first thing before use–if you haven’t done this yet I personally recommend StoneTech BulletProof Stone Sealer. I’ve got a short and simple video here where you’ll learn how to get out difficult stains such [...]

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How to Fix a Faucet (both indoor and outdoor)

November 28, 2009

Leaky faucets suck because they cost you money–you know that right? It doesn’t seem like a lot of water, but it adds up over time so it can cost you as much as $10, $20, or $50 extra on your monthly water bill, sometimes more if it’s really bad. Also, it’s likely been leaking for [...]

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