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Paint & Plumbing

  PAINTING    Up until now, I've been usng a brush to paint the house. There's something quieting about brushing. Brushing can be theraputic. However, I'm getting to ares of the house that will be difficult for brushing, so I've gotten an electric paint sprayer.    I found an inexpensive but usable painter on ebay. A Wagner Power Painter Wide-Shot  spray painter. The painter coomes with a cup that srews into the bottom of the paint gun. There was a hose and accompanying bits and pieces to allow spraying directly from a paint bucket but the hose had a dried  paint clog half way down the tube. I asked for and got a partial refund from the seller. I checked the web and a new hose will cost as much as the kit did. I'm going with the cup since I/'m going to be in some awkward positions when I paint. PLUMBING    I ordered and have installed a new 1/2HP water pump. Mysystem seems to be able to handle the load on a sunny day. Use on a cloudy day migh...

Lawn care

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 Occasionally, I have to do some property management other than mowing and trimming with a string trimmer, e.g., a "weedeater." Now, I need to eliminate crabgrass. For this, I have ordered chemicals from Amazon Prime. Torocity and Southern AG non-ionic surfactant. Combibed with water in a 1-2-3 ratio, can be sprayed on a lawn as an effective post- or pre- emergent crabgrass control.  1 tsp - Torocity 2 gallons - water 3 tsp - Southern AG NIS surfactant This will treat 1000 square feet.