One of the biggest trends in master bathroom remodels is to eliminate the tub and then enlarge the entire shower area.
Home and Garden
This is the best planting time of the year right now. When planting trees, shade the south and west walls and windows of a home to reduce the cost of summer cooling.
Concrete loves to drink up water and, as it does, it slowly releases moisture. So, any wood that is in contact with the concrete gets a little damp. The dampness wicks up the wood and breaks the bond that holds the paint to the wood, causing it to peel.
Whether you add compost to the existing soil at planting or bring in a totally different soil mix, make sure the soil is as consistent as possible throughout the landscape. Making the soil the same when planting makes knowing when to irrigate much easier to figure out and schedule.
When replacing the wood subfloor around the toilet, you may have access to the joists so you can nail the new subfloor patch to them. Typically though, you will have to cut back the flooring to expose the joist’s surface, and you can do this with a circular saw.
Now is the optimum planting time during the fall and also the time when nurseries begin their fall planting sales. Location is all-important when selecting landscape plants and matching them to their correct landscape microclimate.
Window tinting can protect carpet, wood flooring and window treatments. In fact, today’s generation of window films also can keep out heat and filter light, which also increases fading in a variety of household materials.
The Moapa vegetable publication written by Dr. Sylvan Wittwer has information for cultivating vegetables for all of the different elevations found in the Las Vegas Valley.
Most of the damage done to plants during high summer temperatures was due to a lack of water. And if there are strong winds, they also use more water. The bottom line, if it’s a hot, bright, windy day, it’s time to water now.
Most doors on tub enclosures hang from the top rail and slide along its guide track. If the door doesn’t roll smoothly, you must remove the doors and inspect the wheels to see what needs fixing.
It is important to select good varieties of vegetables to plant in the fall, and the publications by Dr. Sylvan Wittwer, formerly of Logandale, make some solid, old-fashioned varietal recommendations he has had success growing in this area.
“Because so many of my clients are quarantined in their homes, they have become more thoughtful about their space and what will work for them,” Rhonda Peterson of Rhonda Peterson and Associates in Atlanta said in the webinar “Where Will 2021 Take Interior Design?”
Planting can occur almost 12 months of the year in our climate, but there are times to plant that are better than other times. For the best times, begin planting most trees, shrubs and fruit around the end of September.
A wall oven is heavy and awkward, so when installing a new one, you will need help pulling it out and positioning the new one in the wall.
People who quarantined are spending their days looking out the window at their yards and they see a yard that does not look healthy. In reality, things are normal since this is how it is during a hot Las Vegas summer.
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