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Late Night Fight Cards Expose A Furnace That Cannot Hold Heat
The text landed at 1:40 in the morning, halfway through a card out of Riyadh, and it read: it is 61 in here and the furnace has not stopped running.…
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The Abandoned Dish Mount Is Now A Roof Repair Job
The dish is still up there. The mast is still up there. The lag bolts are still up there too, four of them driven through sheathing that nobody has looked…
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Remote Guests Change What Coverage a Wedding Actually Needs
How many people at your wedding will only ever see the ceremony through a screen? For couples on Long Island with family still overseas, the answer is often close to…
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Tracing The Reason A Shared House Loses Water Pressure Mid Game
Why does the shower go cold and thin the exact minute somebody starts a load of towels downstairs? In a four-roommate rental it gets blamed on whoever is standing closest…
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Choosing Who Installs Whole Home Surge Protection After a Storm
A Roanoke homeowner sent me photos of his game room after an April storm: a dead receiver, a modem with a scorched cord, and a console that powered up once…
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The Wiring Decisions That Only Happen Before Drywall Goes Up
It is a few minutes past one on a Sunday in October, four games kick off inside the same half hour, and the television wall in the Richmond media room…
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What A Friday Night No Heat Call Actually Cost One Landlord
One unheated weekend in a six-unit Old Louisville building cost me $1,072, and most of that was not the repair itself. The furnace serving unit 3 quit around 9:40 on…
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The Checks A Condo Board Should Run Before The Alarm Sounds
Nobody joins a condo board for the plumbing. Nobody expects to spend a Tuesday night searching lift station repair greenacres fl while a red light blinks over the parking lot.…
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Rust At The Base Of A Grandstand Post Changes The Budget Math
How much steel is actually left at the bottom of a grandstand post that has stood in salt air since 1998? Nobody can answer that from the bleacher deck, which…
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The Cheapest Hearing Aid Is Rarely The One With The Smallest Price Tag
The cheapest hearing aid you can buy is usually the most expensive one you will ever own. That reads like a sales line, and a retired couple in Benbrook pricing…