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How to Troubleshoot a Faulty Electrical Outlet
Here’s a common scenario. You plug cell phone chargers, smart speakers, and other devices into the same outlet every day. Until one day, the outlet doesn’t work, no matter what...
How to Use Power Strips Safely
Once upon a time, being connected with someone meant keeping in touch by writing letters, attending family reunions, saying hello at the supermarket, or joining the same club. Not that...
Light Up Your Bathroom in Whole New Ways
The right bathroom lighting can add healthy doses of style and functionality, making your morning, nighttime, or anytime routine flow more smoothly. Whether you’re looking for bright task lighting, soothing...
How to Prevent a Kitchen Fire
Although no prevention plan is 100% effective, there’s plenty you can do to protect your home and family during meal preparation. The following tips are well worth following, especially around...
Should You Be Concerned About Flickering Lights?
Flickering lights from faux or real candles can add instant ambience to any room, but flicking light bulbs? Not so much. Here are helpful tips for discerning whether your flickering...
Things You Shouldn’t Store in a Bathroom
Toiletries, bandages, medications, and more – things you’re likely to find in any bathroom cabinet or cupboard. Yet the bathroom is the last place many such items should be kept....
The Best Lighting for Homework and Reading
Nowhere is it etched in stone that poor lighting will harm a student’s vision. Then again, as a careful parent, are you willing to take that risk? Probably not –...
How to Get Your Home in Prime Selling Condition
In today’s hot real estate market, one could argue that houses are practically selling themselves. Yet certain issues could turn off would-be buyers and even stop a sale in its...
Let There Be Light – All Around Your Property
A manicured lawn, mature plantings, colorful flowers, and a welcoming entry – you’ve finally achieved curb-appeal nirvana. You might even drive by your own home a time or two before...
How to Brighten Up a Space
Size, obstructions, and lack of windows can make a room feel dark, gloomy, and uninviting. To compensate, structural changes are not always an option. So aside from illuminating every corner,...
The Problem with Knob and Tube Wiring
“Knob and tube” wiring certainly isn’t a phrase that casual conversations are made of – and that assumes you’ve ever heard those three words strung together before. But you don’t...
Motion Sensor Night Lights – They Help You Sleep Better
If you have trouble sleeping and just aren’t getting enough of it, you’re in very good company. According to a study by the National Sleep Foundation, 45% of Americans say...
How to Reduce Your Monthly Electrical Bills
Whatever you pay for electricity each month, you probably wouldn’t mind shaving off a few bucks. In fact, you may already be working towards that goal by doing things like...
Warning Signs of Electrical Problems
You know the saying “If these walls could talk”? In essence, it means you’re glad that certain things you say or do aren’t being revealed to anyone else. Like how...
Electrical Safety – Proceed with Caution
Ever wonder how easy it is to take certain things for granted? You want to watch television? You turn it on. Your phone needs recharging? Just plug it in. Need...
