Home Maintenance
Created: April 18, 2025
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Here are some home maintenance ideas, projects and observations that might make your home work better,
or might add to your understanding of your environment.
Each topic contains a link to our Youtube channel. So, just click the link at the end of each article to view it.
Furnace in Manufactured Home Cycles Too Often with New Honeywell T1 Pro Thermostat (Solved) Part 3 #209
Part 3- This video details my solution to this high furnace cycle time problem with the type of furnace that has been often used
in manufactured homes and trailer homes.
Spoiler alert: it all has to do with the more or less hidden complexity of the thermostat's design and the HVAC tech's
lack of understanding of how it really works. Email me at: spaco@baldwin-telecom.net with any questions.
Furnace Cycles Too Often in Manufactured Home
See the first two parts of this series here:
Part 1:
Part 1, Furnance Runs too often
Part 2:
Part 2, Furnace Runs Too Often
Lightning damages tree. Should we cut it down? #213
Lightning Damages tree- Cut it Down?
Measurable, Improved Drainage for Walkout Basement Home #215
Improved Drainage for Walkout Basement
Sink Holes Are Normal
Here I show you a few views of our neighborhood creek and it's newest sink hole,
just one of many that open up from time to time around this area of west central Wisconsin.
Sink holes are nothing new to us.
This first of three videos shows one that carries the creek's water underground for about one mile,
where the water surfaces again in the creek and continues on down the valley.
The next two videos are updates of sink holes in this same creek.
Sink Holes are Normal #1
Sink Holes Are Normal #2
The sink hole that appeared in our creek bed a couple of weeks ago,
swallowing up at least 50 gallons of water per minute was submerged by some moderate to heavy rains.
Here, I chronicle its disappearance under a foot or so of flowing water,
the opening up of a new one 50 feet or so down stream, and the reappearance of the original sink hole
once the creek's water level drops enough so it's mouth can again be seen.
Sink Holes are Normal #2
Sink Hole Update September, 2024 #220
In this Sink Hole Update video, taken several years after my first two,
we go back to the creek bed to see what has changed.
And I add a couple of maps showing sink holes in our general area.
I also make a few comments about other local sink hole experiences.
Sink Holes are Normal, Update #3
Stairway Handrails for SAFETY, YOU NEED them NOW! #226
I hope to convince you to install stairway handrails NOW. Don't put the job off until it's too late!!
Get Stairway Handrails Before It's Too Late!
Electronic Fly and Insect Swatter With Loose Head, Repair or Prepare #225
Here I show you how to repair one of those electronic Bug Swatters where the head has broken loose from the handle
from hitting a surface too hard while swatting. Or--- how to keep the head from breaking loose from the handle
if you haven't yet had the misfortune
Fix Broken Electronic Fly Swatter Now
Want HIGH Humidity? Choosing a Portable A/C vs Window A/C ? Think Twice! #212
This video is about the differences between "Portable" air conditioners and "Window" air conditioners.
And WHY you should take the time to understand those differences before you choose. There are NO product placements here, by the way.
(Nobody else seems to talk about the HUMIDITY issue for "Portables")
Portable A/C can CAUSE High Humidity- Think Twice