Things to Know About Your Home - 10/31/10 03:49 PM

What are the things you don't know about your home? 
They are all the important things you don't know are important until you need to know them.  Now is that clear to everyone.  Ok, here's an example: You call the plumber because the garbage disposal is acting up.  All it does is hum, kind of a deep throated "mmmmmmmmmmm".  Then after trying to get it to run by turning the switch on and off several times, it even quits the "mmmmmmmmmm". Wow, now you've done it.  It is seriously injured at this point, right.  Nope, it is just stuck.  You … (11 comments)

Hauntings in Dayton, Ohio - 10/14/10 03:43 PM
As a teenager I was intrigued by the reports of ghosts in my hometown of Dayton.  There were always plenty of reports and I missed investigating very few of them.  Most, unfortunately or fortunately (depending how you look at it) turned out to be bogus, but a few succeeded in raising the hair on my neck.
Woodland Cemetery was always an excellent place to go ghost hunting, but access to the property (one of largest and oldest in Ohio) was not always easy.  It was difficult to watch the perimeter of over 200 acres all the time, so there were times … (7 comments)

Who Is MERV and What Is He Doing Here - 10/05/10 08:33 PM
MERV is a number that is assigned to a furnace filter to help the consumer (and contractors) gauge what filter should be used for a specific environment.  MERV stands for Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value and someday hopefully it will be printed on all filters. Although now an international industry standard, the rating/value is not required on all packaging. Developed in 1987 by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) to simplify the rating of filters, it is a minimum or worst case rating.  An example would be a low cost filter with a 1 rating would filter 20% … (7 comments)

Sports in Dayton - The Reds - 10/05/10 02:27 PM
The Reds Post-Season

The Reds are ready for their first post season game in an eon or so.  Wednesday, October 6 at 5pm the Reds will take on Philadelphia in the first playoff game of this season. 
Philadelphia, winners of the National League Eastern Division, finished their season with 97 wins and 65 losses 6 games ahead of second place Atlanta.  Atlanta, by the way, got the wild card nod and plays San Francisco on Thursday.  Cincinnati won their last game of the season while Philadelphia dropped theirs against Atlanta.
Cincinnati will start Volquez and Philadelphia will start Halladay making … (4 comments)

 

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