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I have the well guy coming back. He left here saying it was working fine but the pump would eventually need replacing because it's cast iron. Most of my neighbors are using the ground water which is really clean. I live on top of an aquifer. The soil here does have a lot of iron in it so...

Checked on the well water again.....pressure is really low and water is coming out rust color. Advise needed please!

I'm having the plumber come back this weekend to switch the house over to the well. Something is wrong with the outdoor faucet and the pressure is not good. I hope it's just the faucet and not something else at this point. The water still comes out dirty and I'm hoping it will clear up before...

We bought our house just this past fall. We're living on top of an aquifer where the water and area is protected, the water, I believe is also collected and sold. Most of my neighbors are using the ground water, but our house was switched to town water (I say town, you say city........we're in...

My husband built our daughter a playhouse two years ago that he never finished. Our daughter never plays in it. She says "it spooks her out" because of the spiders and hornets that had once lived in it. She's given me permission to change it into a greenhouse. To do this, I'd have to remove...

I walked around my yard the last couple of days and now I'm excited! I think putting the veg garden up on top of the area where the retaining wall is going to work nicely! Maybe I'll plant berry bushes down in front of it too! I'm so excited! Can't wait to get my hands in the soil!

Thank you! We just bought it last October. Trying to settle in. Yes, I'm hoping that area gets enough daylight hours to give me a nice garden. I'd like enough veggies to feed my family of four during the growing season and enough to can some for the winter. We use a lot of tomatoes, so I'll...

It's been a few months and I may be changing my mind about the location of the vegetable garden. The area I chose is a bit far from the house (thinking I may hate that when I'm older) and the trees are really big that would have to come down. I have another thought. On the south-west of the...

ok. So, my power company will come to my house and tell me where the leaks are? Well, that's awesome! The house was built in 1987. Yes, I can feel cold air around the windows. The house was built as a vacation home for the summers so certain things weren't done as well as they could have...

We do socks and sweaters.....sometimes I wear my coat. Thing is.....it's been a mild winter and the furnace is almost constantly running.

Yes, most of the windows are southern facing.

We bought our house in October of this year. It's a 3 bedroom 1600 square foot contemporary. It has a small insert fireplace and oil hot water base board heaters and the hot water heater runs off the oil furnace as well. Lots of windows(love them) and high ceilings. It's currently costing us...

I knew about the magazines and anything shiny. We eat crackers and cereal from the health food store. I'm assuming those boxes are OK?

What is safe to compost as far as paper products go?

And yes, there will be a fence. We have many deer that would devour everything if I don't put one up.

My neighbor isn't trying to give me a hard time about it in the least. She's just concerned, not knowing who I am really, and whether to trust that I won't be dousing my yard with chemicals etc. I did assure her that I'd keep in mind where her well was and wouldn't do anything that would harm...

I'm planning my vegetable garden. I can clear an area 90' x 90'. My neighbor and I just discussed where the property lines are, it's all good, except she is concerned about the fact that her water well is close to where the garden will be. I assured her that I don't use pesticides and it will...

I have plenty of room for them. The run is something like 25 feet by 25 feet and I only have 10 hens.

I have something!!! It's a house I used originally for turtles then I transformed it to a mini chicken house. I used it to introduce new chicks to my flocks. It's wood with a maintenance door, a pop door and three windows that are covered with hardware cloth and plexi that is removable. It...

Like a couple of others said, it's great for the chickens for dust bathing. Kills the lice and mites.