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Forum: The Trailer Park
Jan 25th 2024, 7:44 am
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Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

If I had dentures I’d do that too.

Availability of vinegar is one of my pet peeves about Britain. In the US, and I’m sure Canada too, they sell it in supermarkets by the gallon, and it’s cheap, I...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jan 24th 2024, 9:13 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

I use vinegar on the inside of the electric kettle, maybe once a year. 100% cleans it, it looks like new. True, you have to leave it a few hours. But, since it’s a food product, I know that all I...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jan 23rd 2024, 3:51 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

What does it do that plain vinegar doesn’t do, in terms of limescale?
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jan 22nd 2024, 8:37 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

:unsure:

I was going with Common Language Runtime.

But google served up a limescale product!!!

:ohmy:
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jan 22nd 2024, 9:52 am
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

We have a plain, cheap shower head that came with the flat. I hadn’t really looked at it particularly closely, but when I arrived in November last year I realised just how furred up it was, to the...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jan 22nd 2024, 7:05 am
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

I’d never heard of this, so I looked it up. Seems to be a huge thing, in the UK.

https://showery.co.uk/blogs/news/what-are-the-beads-in-my-shower-head-for

I’m a bit puzzled though, because in a...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Sep 29th 2020, 12:29 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

We used to buy a couple of hundred daffodil bulbs each year, but now, after twenty years, we probably have ten thousand or more daffodil bulbs in the ground. We no longer buy new bulbs. So, for the...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Sep 29th 2020, 12:16 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

We cut all our own firewood. Years ago I would split quantities, using axe or wedge, but now I split as little as possible because of my lower back problems. So what we do is cut down trees of just...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 26th 2020, 9:44 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

Thanks. That’s all really helpful. In this case, the plastic lines were still good, it was the little inline plastic cutoff valve that was leaking. We’ve had this mower eighteen years, so I don’t...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 26th 2020, 4:56 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

Our push mower (Poulan Pro, with a Honda 5.5hp engine) now leaks gas. It seems to be coming from the little plastic tap, that’s between the gas tank and the motor. What do you call that little...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 10th 2017, 8:18 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

I've always been perfectly happy with Formica and its modern equivalents.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 15th 2017, 2:16 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

I've seen derelict houses where the roof is peeling off to reveal an earlier roof of cedar (or wood, anyway) shakes or shingles, which I assume were the major roofing option in earlier times. I've...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 15th 2017, 12:40 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

And yet in country areas, and places with very low property values in general, houses can stay in the same ownership for long periods. Just on my road - and there's only a couple of dozen houses - I...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 25th 2017, 6:06 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

Poison ivy is a scourge down in your part of the world. However, people do burn extensively. For instance, Cape Cod National Seashore have fire crews who travel all over the US and Canada for wild...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 25th 2017, 5:41 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

Yes that's right fortunately she was using respiratory equipment for that reason - she used to do this professionally. I think she just got the pi on her arms. She sort of knows where the stuff...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 25th 2017, 5:02 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

We've had amazing luck with other bulbs too, for instance crocus and chionodoxia (not sure of the sp there.) I'm sure they are spread by chipmunks, who bury them for later eating and forget about...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 25th 2017, 1:29 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

Spring - daffodil season! We have several thousand in flower now, and more to flower over the next couple of weeks. I've planted at least a couple of hundred bulbs most year for the past twenty...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 17th 2015, 9:57 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

It really is true. Up here in the frozen north, it'd be hard to start a wildfire most of the year, it's just too green and wet most of the year except Dec thru March when everything is under several...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 16th 2015, 1:32 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

Good tip! I will make a soup out of them today. Yesterday, I boiled about a pound of them, then sliced and fried them with onions and tomatoes. Then I added pasta, Parmesan and olive oil. ...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 16th 2015, 12:39 pm
Replies: 2,257
Views: 206,229
Posted By robin1234

Re: Home and garden projects

Living in a rural area, we are allowed to burn except for the period of approx. end of March to mid May. That's when the risk of wildfires is high, because the new green vegetation hasn't grown up...
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