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I just use Cleaning Vinegar as its stronger than table Vinegar and that burns weeds up good. I should try adding salt and dish soap and see what that does to the weeds.

Looking at Amazon.ca (where I live) there are conversion fittings for the old to new style for $57 cdn. Probably on Amazon.com for a lot less.

We also had problems with exchange propane tanks not...

While it may not of helped here, there are special screw removal pliers available that have inter-meshed teeth and a special slot to grip the head or shank of damaged screws.

I have used a...

I don't expect much of the hosts on TOH.

The current one (Kevin O''Connor) was working as a vice president of real estate at a bank and had a segment of Ask This Old house relating to...

$20/25 optional deep clean service for the spring a/c tune up? :)

I was going to suggest that it was a steam heating unit for bed bug treatment of the building.

Where I am in the Canadian great white north I have never seen any buildings get a portable boiler...

this site has sure come a long way from when Don Sleeth, started it as part of his heat loss programming company.

If you look at the bids results tab on this page
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In some cases it my be better to see if you can sub-contract the placement out to a rigging/machine moving company. The ones in my city have all sorts of specialty lifting devices that are not...

If you don't want to be tied to one gas chain, Mastercard Canada offers a fleet credit card.

I know you can get set up through Bank of Montreal. Probably available thru any of the other banks...

I was back in the dealership today to look at a different Mitsubishi car and the two electric ones are gone. Talking to my salesman, both were sold in the last week which means two people here in...

I was looking at the 2022 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV as a new vehicle for me but I have reservations about how its going to perform in the really cold winter weather we have here in Canada.

I...

The " too cheap to meter" phrase was also used here when the govt of the day decided to start the hydro developments of the Nelson River in Northern Manitoba. I'm still waiting to see my free...

Here where I live in Canada, my city is looking at capturing the methane gas coming out of the regional landfill and selling it to the nearby university to replace the natural gas that they buy. The...

If you have the boards separate would the local ewaste people take them off your hands for free? Should not be any different than dropping off a used TV or computer, and you have saved them the...

It also does not help that there are media reports of a shortage of shipping containers. The full ones are stuck on the boats waiting to unload and the empty ones can't be loaded to go back to the...

Its hitting up here in Canada too. Canadian Broadcasting company has a report on it that may explain things

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tight-market-for-chicken-wings-1.6155083?cmp=rss

Besides the the 2 hooks a lot of the techs I see here also use a strap that attaches around the ladder rung and the strand.

Stir/Shaken screening routines that the FCC (US)/CRTC(Canada) are imposing on the North American telephone companies are suppose to cut down the number of spoofed numbers. Here in Canada the system...

Broke my ankle a few years ago on black ice late one spring and none of my friends kids wanted to cut my grass for pay while I rehabbed in the early summer. Company I used then still charges a...

Just thought I would follow up and report after a few days of steady rain last week, my lawn has turned back green and is growing like it never had any hot dry weather. Lawn care guys went from a 5...

True, I can have it sloped to the back lane and just hose it clean as required :)

Is it true in places like Las Vegas and Phoenix large lawns are outlawed, and most people have a decorative stone or wood chip front lawn due to water restrictions?

I see that this style of...

In between the city doing standing water treatment and it being too dry for the last few years I have not had to bring out the mosquito coils. They don't clear out the whole yard but they are good...

Up in Manitoba Canada. I think it's because the prairie sod up here that goes dormant when it gets hot out. If we get some of the rain that is predicted over the weekend it will come back and turn...

No option for separate metering for outside use.

My lawn care company likes when the grass does not grow as they charge by the month and they come by but don't even get out of the truck if it looks dormant.

There is no way I water my grass as...

I must be lucky i have been on Astotorvastin Calcium for a few years now and have not had any issues. I wonder if the dosage amount make any difference or if its a generic brand pill vs a brand name...

I see you have LED bulbs in the fixtures, for the fun of it I would try regular incandescent bulbs to see if the problem stays or goes away. As I understand it some LED bulbs have drivers in them...

I live near both of the two main rail mainlines (CN & CP) in Canada and I see a lot of loaded center beam wood product railcars going east as well as being split off in the yards here, to the two...

In my city there have been miles of back lanes where the ground copper from the transformers has been cut off. A lot of Manitoba Hydro substations have signs saying no copper on site to try and...

All our snow melted and we have had above normal temperatures. My lawn care company even came and did the spring cleanup yesterday.

Today I get an alert from Environment Canada that starting...

This site has sure come a long way from when Don S. started it and moderated it all by himself.

I bought the "boxed" 2020 ufile for Canadian Taxes and when I opened it up there is a sheet of paper with a URL for the download site and the license authorization code. I could have stayed home...

I'd guess you would need proper PPE to access the filter area and probably do something like double bagging the old one to get it out of the building, no dropping over the edge of the building and...

Price Industries based here in Winnipeg Canada and one of the largest suppliers of HVAC in North America has just produced a portable room sized filter system for the Covid-19 virus. This is in...

When you are looking for people how many overqualified people do find applying for helpers etc?

I know people in IT HR positions, and when they post entry level jobs they get people with Masters...

then you must have seen the story of the guy taking the Aluminum rails off of the Red River pedestrian bridge lookout section of the Disraeli FWY and walking the rail down the street to one of the...

the hydro utility here is having problems with all the copper ground wires on their transformer poles being cut from the surface to about 6 or seven feet in height.

Lee Valley tools came out with a line of surgical tools (now a separate company) because they found out that there some doctors that were using their wood carving tools for surgical purposes but...

Its November 2019 and the Manitoba Office of the Fire Commissioner's inspection report has just been made public.

Apparently the motel did not have proper CO detectors in place at the time. Local...

I saw something on one of the US TV morning news programs about the US govt investigating Tesla over their cars catching fire with no warning. I wonder if that is going to have some impact on sales?

Talking to one a telco guy at one of or buildings apparently fax is "more secure" than email for some applications.

Just thought I would post this from my city as apparently its one of the biggest CO poisoning cases in Canada
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This is an interesting news article that just came out on what the Canadian Govt is planning to do when they start the refurbishment on the 100 year old center block of our Parliament building to try...

When the big St.Boniface Catholic Cathedral here in Winnipeg burned down in 1968 it was reported in the local newspapers the next day that a fire occurs every two minutes in churches in North...

I wonder if that jack is still wired to the telephone demark point?

If so and the OP's son wanted to use it without rewiring to a new jack, there are still companies selling the adapters to go...

Not sure about the big guys like Google, Facebook etc but here in our city the major data centers (life insurance, Auto Insurance, Electric utility etc) are contracted out with a 2 two hour onsite...

I have a 2012 Dodge Journey Crew (FWD) that I have had since 3 miles and am currently at around 60000 miles and no problems with it other than it has had 2 factory recalls.

Only thing I would...

A few years ago the gas company had to dig up a few blocks in a new development and check each fused connection on their plastic pipe as their installation sub contractor failed to properly a few...