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February 16th, 2007  Posted at   Fantastic Building Products, Hard To Find - Home Products
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Aerify is a great product!

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How many times have you had your lawn aerated professionally. OK, there are two things that just don’t mix, the soil plugs that are left all over your yard and Kids. The last time I had this done was two years ago and belive me, with five grandchildren and thier friends playing all over the yard, the mud tracked into the garage and house from the plugs, is a big mess.

Along comes a product that takes the place of this old method of aeration and replaces it with a do-it-yourself, easy to use liquid system – that leaves no mess behind.

AERIFY! is a soil penetrant that breaks apart tightly bonded clay particles. This creates “space” in the soil, allowing roots, water and oxygen to permeate. Once you get oxygen into a clay soil, beneficial microbes will be able to survive. These microbes are needed to turn old roots and organic matter into all-important humus. Once you have humus, you’ll have much better soil quality and structure. Aerify! relieves compaction, helps create humus, and brings about the aerated, living soil that all gardeners love to have.

Plus, it is so easy to use! Simply attach this sprayer to your garden hose and you are ready to go. One bottle covers 10,000 square feet of lawn or garden. When empty, you can easily refill with Aerify! concentrate (plus water) following the mixing directions on the label. You can also use this sprayer to apply any of our other products. It is preset to spray at 1 oz of product per gallon of water.

To find out more about this fantastic product and purchase information go to the following website.

http://www.natureslawn.com/aerify.html

January 29th, 2007  Posted at   Fantastic Building Products, Hard To Find - Home Products
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Attic Dek Flooring

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Here is a great idea for converting the unusable space in your attic to a fantastic storage area. It’s called Attic Dek and this system really works! Each of the prefabricated plastic panels is secured by screws through prefabricated holes into the attic floor joists or the bottom cords of the trusses. This creates a huge amount of flooring space that is not only safe to walk on but also safe to store an abundance of your “stuff”.

The panels are available for either 16″ or 24″ joists and each panel will hold weight of up to 250lbs. Just imagine the amount of added storage you will be able to have – probably more then you could ever dream of. Installation time takes about 15 minutes to install four panels and you will get faster at it as you install more of them. To find out more about Attic Dek go to the following website. www.atticdek.com/adMain.htm <
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October 14th, 2006  Posted at   Amazing Tech Gadgets, Hard To Find - Home Products
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Enter the Kurzweil – National Federation of the Blind Reader

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In spite of all the different types of scanning devices that read printed material and convert the material to speech, along comes a new device that makes it even easier to use.

What sets this unique reader apart from the others is that it is a hand unit. You simply hold the Reader’s camera over the print and snap a picture. In just a matter of seconds, you will be able to hear the contents of the printed page in a clear synthetic speech.

The website for this Reader lists several features and they include the following.

1. Reads most printed documents, from letters and memos to pages in a book

2. Reads address labels and package information and instructions

3. Reads and entire page or a few lines for identification

4. Stores thousands of printed pages with easily obtainable extra memory

5. Transfers files to desktop and laptop computers or Braille note-takers

6. Reads documents from computers or other devices

This can be a life changing device. Imagine all the possibilities and hundreds of ways you can put this very special device to use.

To find out more about the Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader go to the following website.

www.knfbreader.com

July 27th, 2006  Posted at   Hard To Find - Home Products
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Believe Me It’s Out There

 

There is nothing more frustrating than being told that something can’t be done or that the product you’re looking for is just not available.

 

As a builder I have been in situations several times in which a supplier will tell me that a particular product or style or color off a product is not available. I have even been told that the manufacturer does not make a particular item.

 

Why do they sometimes make it so hard to find that special building product?

 

Of course, it takes a lot of research to find out if what they are telling you is true or not. Most people will walk away from the situations and except what they are told as been true. And it may be in the mind of the salesperson who told you that a particular item was not available, that he believes it to be true.

 

To give you an example, a couple of years ago we built the Shaker style house and put in Andersen Windows. Our customer was told by our salesman from our local supplier that he could not get screens the same color as the interior of the Windows. He was told that the screens only come in the colors that match the exterior of the Windows. As a matter of fact that’s all that it showed in the books that the supplier had.

 

It took a little time, some research, and finally reaching the right person after going directly to Anderson Windows and we found out that they did make the screens to match the interior of the window.

 

Lesson learned, do not always believe what someone tells you without researching it first.

 

Now for the good news. If you run into a problem like this, let me know and I can search my vast resources and get you and answer. It can be about any subject related to building including things such as appliances or home theater products. Just let me know and I will do my best to get you results.