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Home & Garden
Looking to renovate that back room? Need to landscape your garden, build a fence, save electricity or cover a couch? Whether you’re a DIY expert or you’ve never picked up a hammer the Yellow® How To guide to Home & Garden will give you the answers you need to create your own slice of paradise.
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How to Stay Calm During a Power Outage
As wild weather hits Auckland, power outages are becoming all too common. In the first two weeks of March, Auckland city experienced heavy rains and floods, causing transformers all over Auckland to blow. Homeowners in Auckland wait long hours, sometimes even days, for an electrician to diagnose and fix their power outages. It is possible …
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How to Landscape Your Dream Garden
There is a reason why Kiwis love Dan MacKay’s television shows on DIY landscaping and renovations. MacKay, a famous landscaper in New Zealand, teaches homeowners how to spend just enough money to transform their backyards into a picturesque oasis of flowers and greens. The art of landscaping is hard to master. A beautiful garden may …
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How to Weatherproof Your Asphalt Driveway
Rubber tyres and wet paths are not a good mix. When there is a lack of friction between the wheels and ground, the risk for driveway accidents increases. In West Auckland, a woman shocked the entire neighbourhood after her car rolled down the driveway and smashed through half of her home. Driveway accidents happen more …
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How to Survive the Winter Months without a Heater
Unlike summertime when the sweltering heat forces you to blast the ACs to maximum capacity, winter is pretty much a season of comfort and savings. No matter where you reside, air conditioning is probably a necessity—but not when it’s already cold. Aside from using a sophisticated heating system, there are simpler and more cost-effective options …
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How To Keep Your Kitchen Benchtop Hygienic After Food Preparation
Are you a homeowner who loves to experiment in the kitchen? Are baking and cooking your hobbies? If so, you understand that cleaning up the kitchen benchtop immediately after working on it is the best thing for it to help prevent staining, burning or scratches on your surface. You might have had Prestige Bench Top …
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How To Look After Indoor Plants
While indoor plants aren’t high maintenance, you still need to know their basic needs to make sure they remain healthy. Below, Allbrite Services shares some of the most effective ways to look after indoor plants: Do Your Research All plants need food, water and sunlight, but these aren’t enough basic needs are not everything there …
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How to Mitigate Storm Damage On Your Roof
Storms are never fun and have been known to cause widespread damage when severe enough. Just last year, New Zealand got hit by a not-so-common weather phenomenon: hail. A hailstorm is a storm which drops not water droplets, but irregular chunks of ice. Now, heavy rainfall is common for most New Zealand rooves. But, chunks …
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How to Restore Flaking or Bubbled Plaster Walls
Plaster adds a charming, textured look on your interiors. This superior material choice for covering walls has been around for thousands of years because it tends to calcify and become more durable over time. But moisture and damp conditions may cause plaster to crack and the paint coating to peel off, which will …
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How To Remove Beer Stains and Smells from Your Carpet
Hosting a party at your place can be fun but stressful. From preparation to cleaning up, parties often need a lot of work than it initially seemed. Upon waking up the morning after and when all your guests have left (never mind the dude who’s still passed out on your couch), a scene of cups, …
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How to Tell If Your Homes Electrical Wiring is Outdated
There’s a lot that can be said about the dangers of outdated electrical wiring. Industry experts, Industry experts like Adam Tulloch, know all to well the dangers of faulty or poorly maintained wiring. Faulty wiring is among the leading causes of structural fires in the world. That is why it only makes sense to keep …
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