December 30, 2018, I get a call on my cell phone telling me that my Apple account has been breached and to press the number one on my phone to talk to technical support. I press number one but get disconnected. I look at my cell phone call log and write down the phone number that shows for this last call. I go to my computer and do a phone number reverse lookup and discover that the call shows coming…
Goodyear wipers are simply awful to install. I had to view a YouTube video to get half the job done. The design of this product is simply awful.
We recently had a number of drain pipe problems occurring within a two month period at our two story home. The three problems seem to be from suspicious causes. Mike’s (our plumber) observations: #1 With new home construction, when plumbing pipes fail to line up, some plumbers force joints to come together. This lasts for a while but as the building ages and the plastic becomes less flexible the pipe gives way. Mike has seen this happen quite a few…
I went shopping for a small crescent wrench at Home Depot. I found a wonderful and rather clever designed pliers that would outperform just about any small wrench I have in my tool kit. Here is what I like about it: The jaws have a clever design that easily grabs any bolt size up to 1 and 1/2 inches. The jaws can open up to 2 and 1/4 inches for grabbing other items that do not come around to hit…
Our family has an in ground back yard pool with two pumps. One of for moving pool water through a filter so the water is made clean. The second motor moves pool water from the pool filter exhaust out to a pool sweep. This second pump is at a high enough force that it propels a pool sweep that picks up debris that might fall to the bottom of the pool. What this pool sweep picks up is deposited into…
It was a Thursday, July 20, 2017, when our garbage disposal failed. One of the grinding heads broke loose which caused the garbage disposal to nearly explode with noise and vibration. I dove for the on/off switch and shut the unit down. I fished out the broken piece. The disposal was way out of balance when I applied power again and shut the unit down quickly. I knew then I had to replace the unit.
