DIY Round Up: How to Build a Laundry Drying Rack
This week’s DIY Round Up is headlined by a post from last Summer that we just discovered! Centsational Girl gives us instructions for building a laundry drying rack.
As usual, Kate delivers amazing pictures and detailed instructions. It’s an idea we may incorporate into our laundry room makeover this Summer. The best part: this craft won’t break the bank!
We’ve also been meaning to share with you Home Construction Improvement’s instructions for how to install replacement windows. Todd’s instructions for this are some of the best on the web. We followed similar steps when we remodeled our townhome, where we followed Ethan’s advice for what to look for in replacement windows.
This Old House gives us 10 uses for charcoal. We’re no big fans of TOH’s laborious nagivation system (which makes you click about 100 times to read an article), but we did like #10 in their list, which was to add a few brickets of charcoal in a dry rag in your toolbox to prevent tools from rusting.
DebtFreeAdventure gives us several ways to save on electric heating bills. I added 7 more ways in the comments to Matt’s post. Our #1 choice: insulate the attic.
American Basement Solutions gives us six ways to keep water from leaking in through basement windows. This is very useful if you’ve been dealing with moisture or all out leaks around below-grade basement windows.
And finally, with the devastation in Haiti top of mind, we learned from CashMoneyLife that donations to the Haitian relief efforts made from Jan. 12 to Feb. 28, 2010, will be tax deductible for 2009. We think Congress made the right decision on this one, giving people one more reason to give.
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January 30th, 2010 9:26 am
Fred,
Thanks for the mention!
January 30th, 2010 9:11 pm
Awesome, thanks ! That laundry rack comes in so handy ! No kiddding, I use it every week. Thanks so much for the feature.
Kate
January 31st, 2010 2:38 pm
Hey Fred…
It was funny you mentioned increased attic insulation in that post because that is the one main thing we need to do to increase the efficiency of our new home. It is a 2006 home w/many modern efficiencies but for some reason they only sprayed it with R10 (paper) worth of attic insulation when it should be up around R50 (we’re adding fiberglass on top) for our area of the country.
Godspeed.
January 31st, 2010 5:58 pm
Can’t wait to get started! Thanks a bunch!