Home & Garden

With the high costs of fuel today, it pays to save energy and money on home improvement projects where you can. To help with your budgets, here are three awesome products in the marketplace to check out.

1) Hurricane Socks

We always use a number of measures to get rid of dirt and dust from our house. However, it becomes quite difficult to prevent accumulation dirt once the rainy season and hurricane season starts. To prevent water from coming into your house, hurricane socks can help. Made from high quality water absorbing material, hurricane socks are usually 3 inches by 3 – to 4-feet long cylinders of polypropylene packed in strong nylon.

You can place these hurricane socks at the bottom of the doors and windows to prevent possible water dripping and leaking. And surprisingly, these water absorbent socks are able to soak one-gallon water. That means you can change a single hurricane sock after couple of days; simply wring it out, let it air dry and use it – over and over and over again. Crack those tough wet jobs with easy-to-use, economical hurricane socks.

2) Abzorb Mats

Sometimes even after taking all major precautions to keep the house clean, floors – especially the garage and kitchen floors – become dirty and greasy. But don’t worry! An easy solution is to use Abzorb Mats, made of top quality absorbing polypropylene, backed with high quality epoxy resin.

Abzorb Mats:

• Keep you garage cleaner and safer from slipping accidents on greasy spots.

• Prevent damage to not only flooring (wood, concrete and others) but also walls, cabinets other areas.

• Absorb gallons of water, and when the water evaporates from the mat, you can use them over and over and over again.

• Are easy to use and clean, and last for years.

• Also come in rolls for easy cutting with scissors or other sharp tool.

Available in multiple sizes and affordable price ranges, Abzorb Mats can be used inside your garage, home (under pet dishes, in children’s rooms, under kitchen appliances, etc) and other areas as well as; for example, outside on decks under grills.

3) Draft Stoppers

Along with house cleaning, keeping your home warm is also important, especially during winter season. A central heating system and / or living room fireplace combo is excellent for this purpose, available in local home improvement stores and online.

Note, though, that even if you have your systems and fireplaces in place and running, you need to try hard to prevent possible heat loss, since severe heat loss may overload the systems resulting in overuse of electricity, not to mention excessive energy bills. A simple way to avoid this is to block gaps responsible for heat loss with quality draft stoppers.

A well graded draft stopper is made using finely ground corn cob filled in a cylindrical polypropylene bag, easy to shape as you’d like, and place accordingly. These draft stoppers are long lasting, economical and tough on heat loss.

So give it a try – nothing to lose – - save energy and money with any or all of these 3 nifty home improvement products.

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hey everyone Alright, so this is my first house for youtube, and I would appreciate any feedback that you have. I decided to start off big, with a modern house that wraps itself around the garden. I got the Sims 3 a few months back, and i hope to make a lot more houses. When this one is complete ill post it on the Sims 3 website so you can download it if you want it. The front doors open onto the massive hallway that leads to the main living room. The hall then follows the building round, passing the kitchen, dining room, study, spare bedroom and bathrooms. There are various living spaces and a library. The master bedroom is on the second floor and has its own ensuite. Enjoy

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The city of Bath, formerly and for pretty obvious reasons known as “Bath Spa”, is a delight. Old cobbled streets, thin alleyways, lanes winding to hidden parks and little squares. And, of course, the most wonderfully preserved Roman baths in the UK, draw millions of tourists every year. Each one of whom must be seeking an accommodation – and every one of whom, if they but knew, was probably walking past the best in the city on a daily basis – should have gone to a Bath Spa hotel.

Obviously, such a tourist-heavy environment has beds and hotels for every budget and most tastes. However. Whatever the size of one’s wallet, a stay in a proper spa hotel is worth every penny – particularly in Bath, the home of the whole idea of the spa. With the Roman Baths only metres away, it seems foolish to ignore the opportunity to stay in this glorious little city in any other way. Just as the Baths have their marvellous yellow stone walls, their warm lights, and their limpid green waters; so does every Bath spa hotel give off an unmistakeable atmosphere of old world comfort – of peacefulness and healing.

Old world, in the definitively modern surroundings of a hotel that knows what’s what. Every Bath spa hotel has an impeccable blend of the old feel with the newest of new modern conveniences – some more impeccable than others. In particular, Harington’s Hotel (exclusively located down a practically invisible alleyway just seconds’ walk from the Baths) manages this transition from the “feel” of the kind of place Jane Austen would have stayed in, to the luxuries modern guests expect, with aplomb. Not the only Bath spa hotel, but one of the best, Harington’s welcomes guests into corridors and ample reception areas reminiscent of the Roman Baths: then ushers them into rooms where every little detail, though perfectly in keeping with the feel of the place, screams “modern”.

That, really, is the kind of place Bath is. It’s managed to walk the line between old and new with so much success that half the time people don’t even notice it. They don’t realise how incongruous it ought to be, sipping trendy cocktails in a painfully glitzy wine bar installed in a 300 year old building on a cobbled street: because that wine bar, like the whole city, has managed its chameleon trick with ease. The bar, the spa and the cobbled street all feel right because everything in Bath just fits. There’s nowhere like it, not in England and not in the world. And there’s no hotel like a Bath spa hotel – which is why to visit the city and not stay in one would be an act of foolishness.

Getting a hotel right in the centre of things is a real treat – and a perfect counterpoint to the bustle of a day out. Wander the streets, visit the Baths, check out the wine bars and cocktail places – then step a few short metres around a practically hidden corner to the most luxurious temporary home, its quiet corridors the perfect antidote to the rush and clamour outside. That’s what a spa hotel is all about: and that’s why a Bath spa hotel is the best in the business.

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As the doors swung open and thousands of pros strolled over 1 million square feet of innovations at the International Home Builders’ Show in Orlando, AOL Home Improvement Editor Tom Kraeutler joined the treasure hunt for the year’s coolest innovations in home improvement gear. Comfort, convenience and style were repeating themes among the latest home products.

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