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When cleaning your door hardware, only use mild soap and water. The chemicals that are used in most cleaners and polishes can be harmful to the clearcoat finish that is applied to nearly every brand of door hardware on the market.

Setting up a composter in your backyard is easy. And in addition to reducing landfill waste in your local community, it's a great way to create rich fertilizer for your garden.The Benefits of Compost Compost provides many benefits, both environmental and economic, which is why it's often referred to as black gold. Compost is a rich, beneficial form of fertilizer that you can make yourself by using waste from your kitchen and yard. You can spread compost as a fertilizer for your gard …

Options for Filtering Your Tap Water Across the country, water quality concerns are on the rise. This article explains why you should filter your home's wate …

There are new web apps and devices coming out that can help you save energy, improve safety and increase the convenience of your home by making your home “smarter.” “Smart home” is a term that is used for describing web apps, devices, and systems that automate your home to make managing your home easier and better. Some elements of smart home apply to individual appliances, a …

Let's face it, in the pantheon of routine home maintenance, caring for your door hinges and hardware clearly isn't as high a priority as say, getting your annual furnace maintenance done or regularly testing your smoke detectors. So why worry about your door and hinge hardware? For most people, the answer is simply “I don't like …