Home Repair and Maintenance

HomeRepairForum.com
Several online forums on indoor and outdoor home repair topics. Indoor Home Repair forums are appliances (e.g., refrigerators, washers, dryers, ranges, disposals, dishwashers), electrical, flooring heating and air conditioning, painting and wall coverings, plumbing, and stenciling. The Outdoor Home Repair forums cover decks and fences, gardening and landscaping, and painting the exterior of your house.

Jackie Craven's "The Fix" Column
Got leaks and squeaks? Bees and mice? Drippy paint, sagging ceilings, clanging pipes? Here are solutions for your troubling household dilemmas, excerpted from Jackie Craven's column The Fix. These columns were published over a two-year period in House & Garden magazine. They are organized in the following categories: Kitchens, Bathrooms, Electrical, Paint and Wallpaper, Ceilings and Floors, Furnishings, Windows and Doors, Cleaning, Fireplace, Exterior Paint and Siding, Roof and Chimney, Yard and Garden, Pests, Heating, Home Design, Art Display and Conservation, Security, and Vacation Care.

Basic Home Care
Tips and information for homeowners including pool maintenance, carbon monoxide and home seating safety, plumbing information, caulking doors and windows and replacing window glass and screens. Also featured is information about water softeners, lead exposure and indoor air pollution.

You Can Protect Your Outdoor Fountain from Winter Damage
Your garden fountain is a focal point for your back yard, and the last thing you want is for it to get damaged over the long, cold winter. By taking the time to implement a few simple steps, you can increase your chances of being able to enjoy it next summer. Draining, filing the basin, and covering your outdoor fountain are all parts of this necessary maintenance activity. It's important to protect your garden fountain in the summer months, too, and you will find suggestions to keeping it running well posted on this site as well.