When you need some milk, you expect to find a good choice at the grocery store. Right? And when you're facing subfreezing temperatures and frozen water pipes, you would also expect to find some pipe insulation products at Home Depot. Right?
Not so fast. Like much of the country, we were hit with some colder-than-normal weather over the past week here in Texas. And, as often happens in such circumstances, water pipes began to freeze. Specifically, my friend lost her hot water when the supply pipe to her water heater froze. This kind of thing happens a lot down here because many people have their water heaters (and washing machines) in the garage or in unh...
It's bone-chilling cold out there this winter!
Frozen pipes are a problem you never want to deal with but are all too common during extended cold snaps in winter like the one we are having.
I want you protected, so do me a favor and as soon as you are done reading this blog post, remove any hoses you have attached to your outdoor faucets and then go in the house and turn off the water to the outside faucet (also called a hose bibb or sill cock).
It is critical to remove ...
Garage Makeover - Garage Door Insulation originally appeared on About.com Garages & Storage Spaces on Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 13:52:47.
A carport is to a garage like a camping lean-to is to cabin -- better than nothing for parking or sleeping, but not necessarily by a whole lot. But carports are just enough better for many that they continue to keep a small industry in business. Carports are popular in Arizona primarily for keeping the hot sun from beating on cars, and they are popular in Minnesota for keeping snow off. I've known people who've put up carports primarily to cover picnic and play areas in their yards.
Carports are worthless for storage, and they add no protection to your car from thieves. But once you understand the...
Often, when I mention to people that I have this little Web presence that focuses on garages, I get this reply: "Cool. Sure wish I had a garage."
Now, many of those responses come from people living in rentals, and their best hope for a garage is to go buy a house. But others come from people living in older homes that never had a garage or whose garage has been converted to living space.
If you've got the room on your property, it really doesn't have to cost a lot to build a garage. If you are so motivated, you can even do a lot of the work yourself. There are so many
