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Yes. Google Lowes and Petco partnership In a program expansion, Lowe’s is growing its Petco shop-in-shop partnership from 15 stores to nearly 300 locations by the end of the year. Lowe’s Petco store-in-stores will carry a range of products including nutrition, flea and tick solutions and Petco...

For those of you who are retired military and use your military discount at lowes, do you know there are several items including lumber and appliances that you can NOT use your discount. I worked there on and off, for 5 years and they have really eroded the benefits for associates and military...

I live in NE Alabama and we too have carpenter bees! When I moved into my first house, the wooden fence had dozens and dozens of holes from them. I learned that if a bee hatches at X, they will always come back to that spot to lay more eggs. Fortunately, I had a tornado take that fence away -...

heres a place i purchased a sweep from. my problem is when they installed hardwood, they built up the threshold, so i needed a deeper sweep. i had to remove that extra threshold because i removed the hardwood (prior owner had a dog who pee'd in the foyer, so much, that it buckled the hw in the...

Fm one of the links from Spicoli43 above. <<a report from OpenTheBooks published in 2020, the IRS had stockpiled 4,600 guns and five million rounds of ammunition as of January 2019. >> Thats 1000 rnds per gun!! Thats a WHOLE LOT of guns and ammo! Its interesting that during to obama...

if your about to dig, something to consider is, where are ALL your utilities located? in my last house, I had both my main electrical line and fiber cable running thru my yard AND NOT IN STRAIGHT LINES where you'd expect! I was planting some shrubs and hit my main feed electric cable! it was...

Thanks Snoonyb! I forgot about that second rail. Thats what I'll do

We're installing upper cabinets in our kitchen. Question: If you can only catch one stud on the far end of the cabinet, what can/do you use to secure the other end? Or do you put two screws vertically into the only available stud (say 12" vertically from each other)?

+3 for a structural engineer. we removed a wall in our late 80s 2 story house and by trade, im a civil/mechanical designer, so I looked up the loads and came up with 2-2x12's sandwiched, BUT I also contracted it out after talking to a General Contractor and he came up with the same support. We...

WHAT GREAT KITCHENS! hope ours turns out as good as some of yours!! we're in the middle of doing our kitchen. electricians and drywallers have already been here. we had a wall removed and another two widened. We're going to go with LillyAnn Cabinets. RTA Cabinets: Wholesale Kitchen Cabinets...

you need to check out Titan RX grass seed. they've developed it to have larger roots than normal grass seed and it stays greener in drought conditions. I put it down at my last home. I ordered it from our local co-op and they told me the farmers found out about it and loved it for their pastures

I agree with flyover. as my wife says, if there are RED Flags that pop up in your thinking, pass it on. As for Inspectors, some are thorough, some are not. When we bought this house in August, the inspector and I went thru this house with a fine tooth comb and the owner had to make several...

get a little dab of your wifes nail polish. works great!

when smoothing out the caulk, you can use your finger (keep finger wet, caulk wont stick), OR pick up some popsicle sticks and use them, wiping off excess from stick as you move along. but yes, remove as much old caulk as possible, using what ever means you have ie. putty knife, knife. once you...

Stay away from LG and ESPECIALLY Samsung! Many, Many problems! We bought a Whirlpool French Door, 36-inch Wide French Door Refrigerator - 25 cu. ft - WRF555SDFZ The ratings on it were excellent, and like Flyover said, a SxS prohibits you from putting in wide items. This is WIDE AND DEEP! We...