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It seems like winter never really hit the Lower Mainland this year, with all the record-breaking warm temperatures. Yet spring is quickly approaching, and that means preparing your home for a new season.
From spring cleaning to spring maintenance, the busy season is almost upon us.
Planning your spring home chores list is a good way to ensure this spring is a productive one around the house and helps you save money on energy bills this summer, improve your homes appearance and head off big-ticket repairs down the road.
A few tips to help you prepare your home for the warmer months:
Inspecting the air conditioner for about $75-200, a technician will tune up your cooling system to manufacturer-rated efficiency and you wont sweat the first hot weekend with an air conditioner thats out of commission.
Dirty filters make air conditioners work harder, increasing energy costs and possibly damaging equipment.
Check them monthly and replace as needed, or at least every three months.
Technicians will check drains during a tune-up, as well.
Putting temperature on autopilot a programmable thermostat can save about $180 annually on cooling and heating bills, if you can live with higher indoor temperatures in summer and cooler temperatures in winter.
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1930 #39;s Wauwatosa English Cottage Kitchen Remodeling
This kitchen remodel is the second project completed for this residence. After their master bathroom remodeling, these clients chose to finally update their ...
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By Amanda Abrams February 6 at 7:30 AM
Its the most prominent thing in the room. The wood table is sturdy and spacious eight feet by three feet built of rustic old lumber with a grain that shines through. The best thing about it? All of its wood came from the Northwest Washington rowhouse where it sits.
Theyre old hand-milled two-by-fours that the house was made out of, says Mike Iacavone, an artist who owns the 1920 house, in the Bloomingdale neighborhood, with his wife, Ali Jost.
When they bought the house, they knew it needed renovations, but they were determined to hold on to some of its old structural timber. Iacavone, 40, built the table using a biscuit joiner and a lot of wood glue with discarded lumber that the couples contractor had set aside for them.
Iacavone and Jost also wound up exposing ceiling joists in the kitchen, giving the room a farmhouse look and showcasing thick, 100-year-old planks. We took out a wall and saw the beams, and they looked great, so I said, Lets not cover these, Iacavone says.
The couple may have simply followed their instincts, but they were spot on. The wood in many of the Districts rowhouses, particularly those built before the 1930s, is high-quality lumber cut from old-growth or even virgin forests that no longer exist in this country. That includes not only the flooring and trim, but also the internal framing wood, such as studs, rafters, and floor and ceiling joists.
Its often the same kind of wood that was used to build barns in rural areas around Washington. But unlike reclaimed barn wood, which became popular more than a decade ago, the value of this wood isnt widely recognized among homeowners and developers. And as the city experiences a remodeling boom, builders say, most of it by far is going into landfills.
The wood [that was milled] at the turn of the century is probably two or three hundred years old, says Andy Bohr, sales manager at Galliher and Huguely, a 100-year-old lumberyard in the District. Its more dense, a little more structurally stable, because these are older-growth trees.
Unlike recently cut lumber, which generally has been grown over 10 to 30 years, the old trees had very tight growth rings, lending the wood strength and hardness even in so-called softwoods such as pine and fir. Much of the framing lumber in District rowhouses is made of those softwoods. The flooring might be finished oak or pine, and doors and details could be American chestnut, a wood made rare by a century of blight.
Max Pollock is materials manager with Details, a firm that deconstructs buildings in Baltimore and the District to salvage their components. He says that although most old rowhouse lumber can be restored to good condition, one type of wood is particularly sought-after: old longleaf pine, also known as heart pine. It has a rich color, nice smell, and the grain is much, much tighter than other softwood species, Pollock says. Thats the holy grail; its what were always looking for.
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The new Sempra Energy corporate headquarters building, developed by Cisterra Development, nears completion at Eighth and Island avenues in downtown San Diego. It is one of few major office buildings currently under construction locally. John Gastaldo
The new Sempra Energy corporate headquarters building, developed by Cisterra Development, nears completion at Eighth and Island avenues in downtown San Diego. It is one of few major office buildings currently under construction locally. John Gastaldo
San Diego County's commercial real estate market came alive in 2014 as vacancies dropped, rents rose and tenants occupied more space. But for 2015, local brokers expect little upturn in construction of office buildings because it's still cheaper to buy than build.
Still, optimism is growing that job growth is stimulating more space demand and, at least from landlords' standpoint, higher rents.
"There's definitely momentum in the marketplace," said CBRE industrial broker Chris Pascale. "People have a positive outlook."
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The key stimulant was the employment picture: Employers added 44,500 jobs to local payrolls last year, a 3.3 percent annual growth rate, a faster pace than in the rest of Southern California, the state and the nation.
"When people get hired, they need a place to work. So they will take space to house those folks. I think the job-creating piece is the most important piece for sure," Pascale said.
Rental rates rose but not enough to justify much new construction. No new large industrial projects were under way at the end of the year and only six office buildings were being built. New retail space under construction totaled 372,213 square feet in 19 buildings, but that was down 10 percent from the same time in 2013.
But there was some improvement, according to the Construction Industry Research Board. The total valuation of nonresidential building permits issued last year, $1.9 billion, was up 14.3 percent from 2013. New construction rose 58.8 percent to $1.1 billion, while additions and alterations dropped back from nearly 50 percent to 41.5 percent of all activity.
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Noisy part of downtowns CRST project will fade away soon
February 6, 2015 | 10:58 pm
CEDAR RAPIDS The piercing construction noise is coming to an end.
Since early October, a constant banging has been coming from the building site for the CRST Center, an 11-story office tower thats still about a year away from opening up for tenants.
Thats the sounds of progress is what weve been saying, but that echoes all over downtown, said Geoff Eastburn, vice president of operations for the Midwest division for Ryan Companies US Inc., the contractor on the project.
The incessant hammering about every 1.5 seconds when the crews are working is a byproduct of needing to drive 197 steel pilings into the bedrock for the CRST building and 189 more for the 12-foot flood wall between the building and the river.
While thousands of downtown office workers have tolerated it for months, one nearby violin teacher noticed how it affected his work.
Mike Hall offers private lessons through Orchestra Iowa, one block southeast of the building site. Hall broke out a metronome to demonstrate the pacing of the hammering.
If you turn (the metronome) on, itll give you the beat and you can pick whatever beat you like to use, he said. Unfortunately, with the construction going on, weve had to go with the beat outside.
The good news is that the noise will fade away. Eastburn said the last of the steel pilings are being installed, and that the shift soon will move to more visible above-ground construction.
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THEY'RE used to keep out dingoes, wild dogs and feral cats. Now scientists say fences could stop cane toads invading large parts of arid Australia.
Toads died en masse after a team of Sydney researchers erected fences around several man-made dams in the Northern Territory, preventing the animals' access to lifesaving water.
The fences also stopped the pests re-establishing their population the following year, making the simple solution the first successful method of controlling cane toads long term.
"There were dead cane toads piled up around the fences," said the study leader, Mike Letnic, from the University of NSW. "We smashed them."
Since their ill-conceived introduction, cane toads have marched across northern Australia, decimating populations of several native species.
Scientists, conservations and governments have tried many ways to thwart the toxic pest; including trapping, biological controls, even using their own toxin against them, with only short-term success.
Dr Letnic said killing cane toads was one goal, but the bigger challenge was developing a control that prevented the next generation of toads re-invading.
He said the three fences they erected around dams were nothing fancy, made out of shade cloth that the toads could neither jump over or burrow under.
"We're not engineers, we built these rickety little fences. Kangaroos broke them, but if they were watertight we could keep cane toads out," he said.
His team has previously placed tracking devices on toads, discovering they couldn't not survive without water for more than three days.
No electric fences were detected during a raid conducted by a team of Tangedco officials in some parts of the Nilgiris North Forest Division on Tuesday. Superintending Engineer T. Haldorai told The Hindu that the raid was carried out following the death of an elephant at Dhoddamanehaada, near Sholur recently. Farms, and buildings in and around Kil Kotagiri, Garikiyur, Mudiyoor, Kokohada, and Banglapadi were inspected by a nine-member team. Mr. Haldorai said that such surprise raids would be conducted in various parts of the Nilgiris frequently.
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