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We just moved into a new to us house, built in the 70's, and it has a metal roof. The roof looks awful. It's rusted a little in some areas and just overall not nice looking. What would be a good way to "clean" this or make it look decent again? Sand blasting? Could I paint it? I've never seen...

Which yard plants should I not have because of dogs getting sick from chewing on them?

Yep been there done that. Spend the money for the water softner. In fact I just had to clean and replace some components in my fairly new water heater at a rental due to really bad hard water. I hate doing it, takes forever.

The side of my rental house has a huge section of bamboo that has taken over. I chopped them all down but now I find shoots in the middle of my yard 20 feet away from where they were. Should I kill them with a pesticide or how do I stop their growth?

You will have to sand off the poly finish and possibilly chemical strip that as well. You will have to use chemical stripper to take off the finish. At the local hardware store they should have a bunch of various types of strippers.

I want to build large cement steps in about a 3'x4' rectangle and about 4" tall. Should I lay some rebar across when building them or will a piece of cement that big be fine to walk on without cracking?

When you use a realtor to BUY a house do you have to pay them for their services or do they make their money with the seller or both?

I have a sink/counter combo that was here when I moved in. I am not sure what material, it's just a common sink/counter combo, I guess some sort of hard plastic. Anyway the sink has all these cracks forming in it. They aren't deep but they are very unattractive, it looks really dirty. Is...

I want to purchase a metal spiral staircase What manufactures are there for them?