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Avoiding Flood Damage and Protecting Your Property
Flood protection can involve a variety of changes to your house and property–changes that can vary in complexity and cost. You ... |
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Avoiding Flood Damage: A Checklist for Homeowners
Are you looking for ways to protect your home from flooding? There are many things you can do, depending on the flood hazard ... |
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Basement Bathrooms
Adding a basement bathroom can be a plumbing challenge, but toilet pumps and alternative waste-removal systems give remodelers ... |
 
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Exterior Tour and Plumbing
Bob and Ryley tour the exterior of our cabin. The cabin will have a lot of exposed wood surfaces, which will pose some ... |
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Flood Prep - Sewer
Keep these points in mind if you have backflow valves installed:
a) Changes to the plumbing in your house must be done ... |
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How to Choose the Lot for Your Home
The money and time spent on site investigation is an excellent investment, and good insurance against trouble later on, when ... |
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Innovative Septic System Installation
Bob meets with Tom Florence to install the Flo-Well Polyvinylehelene septic system. The tank is much lighter than concrete ... |
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Installing PVC Pipe
Bob Vila shows a Victorian Style house where the rough plumbing is being installed. The house has a half basement with the ... |
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Installing the Leach Field and Chambers for the Infiltrator Septic System
Bob is joined by Carl Thompson of Infiltrator Systems as the new leach field and Infiltrator chambers are laid out. The main ... |
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Landscaping in the Falmouth Affordable Housing Development
Bob joins John Druley at another of the Quaker Homes that is nearly completed and ready for landscaping. This home is ... |
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Maintaining a Septic System
Uh-oh! Smells like trouble with the septic system! Time to call the Fix-It Club! |
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Septic Tank Care
Have your tank inspected by a septic tank professional every three to five years - more frequently if your family uses a lot ... |
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Septic vs. Plants
Cleaners and other chemicals entering drain fields can injure plants when they are leached into soil near plants. Leaf scorch ... |
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Site Preparation
Proper site preparation is essential for construction. Each step follows a natural progression through investigation, approval ... |
