[BlindHandyMan] Caution! Imported Plywood May Be Substandard

2009-03-11 Thread Ray Boyce
Hot demand and high prices in North America have created a big market opportunity for imported wood panel products. Some of these products, however, may not live up to the quality that builders have come to expect from the North American wood structural panel industry APA ¡V The Engineered Wood A

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Cracks in Cement Floor!

2009-03-11 Thread Spiro
Hello, I guarenty that when they start digging to do any part of this job; this is what will begin to take shape, Claudia. I hadn't this whole thing in mind as it looked different shortly after I started with this in mind. But even though the project appeared to be vering away from this plan; th

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Watering a large Garden with water pressure issues

2009-03-11 Thread Jewel
When one installs an underground irrigation system, how do you avoid putting a fork or spade through the hose? Is the hose buried at a depth that the gardener is not likely to reach in his/her labours? Jewel - Original Message - From: "Jeff Kisecker" To: Sent: Wednesday

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Watering a large Garden with water pressure issues

2009-03-11 Thread Dale Leavens
A few years ago we were staying at a bed & breakfast in Stratford on an acreage. He kept a very large garden which he irrigated with paper like tubing actually made of Tyvek pushed over special nipples and other fittings. I believe he installed it using one of those cutters that cable instalers

Re: [BlindHandyMan] radio for listening to TV

2009-03-11 Thread Spiro
if the wave has audio inputs you can bring sound from your computer as you use TV station feed; or you can use the wave's inputs to receive audio from one of the new digital decoder boxes with an amplified antenna (as of june 17). On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Jim King wrote: > I am looking for a r

[BlindHandyMan] Thanks for all the advice and encouragement

2009-03-11 Thread JoVina Harris
> > Hope this is helpful and have a ball! > > Dale Leavens. > I don't know about having a ball but you've all been very helpful. Thanks to everyone for all the good advice. I have only now finished the cleaning part because I wanted to be very thorough. I also got an official description of

[BlindHandyMan] watering a garden and more

2009-03-11 Thread Lee A. Stone
Long ago I listened on blind coll tech of a young man who recoreded the soundsby his home in Austrailia when they got a deliver of a very big water storage tank. I am not sure if it was 2,500 or a 5,000 gallon tank but it was big enough where a crane was brought in to lift the tank off th

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Watering a large Garden with water pressure issues

2009-03-11 Thread cheetah
hi here's another idea get a couple of 55 gallon drums and maybe link them together or just one. then have your garden hose fill it up then use a submersible sump pump to boost the pressure down the hose. and with that you could use a y hose connector and put several hoses and less sprinklers on

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Watering a large Garden with water pressure issues

2009-03-11 Thread Philip Theron
I somehow don't think that a drip system will work for a vegetable garden maybe a pop up sprinkler system but I still think Betsy's idea of a timer with a directional valve will work just fine and is cost effective. Philip Theron Piano tuner Piano Music House Tel.: [021] 948 6995 Cell: [083] 63

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Watering a large Garden with water pressure issues

2009-03-11 Thread Philip Theron
Hi I would suggest you make up too lines with three sprinklers on each line, then you put a directional valve wear the too lines meet the main hose. Depending the diameter of the mane hose, you mightt find that even three lines is necessary, then you can use three or too sprinklers at a time.

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Watering a large Garden with water pressureissues

2009-03-11 Thread Brice Mijares
One of these damn days I'm going to put in a drip system, because watering my garden is a pain in the ass. I have a soft water system that runs throughout my house. In order to add water to the pool, or water my garden, I must first go into the garage and push a button to by pass the soft wate

RE: [BlindHandyMan] Watering a large Garden with water pressure issues

2009-03-11 Thread RiverWind
Greetings, I tend to like the idea of underground weeping hoses, but we have a pretty powerful rototiller, and I am afraid of damaging the hoses whilst turning up the sod. It is starting to look like getting all new hoses of a significantly larger diameter might turn out to be the answer. I proba

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Watering a large Garden with water pressure issues

2009-03-11 Thread Lee A. Stone
I like that too Brice, the drip system. also I am thinking of a old farm up the road from me. they have their downspouds cut off high and all rain water from the roof of the main house goes to a catch basin . I think it is a large ole vat and from there they siphon or pump water to thei

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Watering a large Garden with water pressure issues

2009-03-11 Thread Brice Mijares
drip system. - Original Message - From: "RiverWind" To: "Blind Handymen's Forum" Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:24 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Watering a large Garden with water pressure issues > > Greetings, > > Ok folks, I have a question for which I can find absolutely no > solutio

Re: [BlindHandyMan] radio for listening to TV

2009-03-11 Thread Lee A. Stone
why not just a headset which you can move around with or while wearing it. I have such a headset . got got it from radion shack. yopu just need to buy a audible attachment which plugs into a I think audible jack on the side of your television. Lee On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:59:03PM -0400

Re: [BlindHandyMan] radio for listening to TV

2009-03-11 Thread john schwery
Yep, plug an fm transmitter into the TV and tune the radio to the freq put out by the transmitter. earlier, Jim King, wrote: >I am looking for a radio that I can listen to TV on. I would like a good >quality one that can receive a signal through the TV cable. > >A second question, I have a Bose

RE: [BlindHandyMan] Watering a large Garden with water pressure issues

2009-03-11 Thread Jeff Kisecker
Depends on where you live, in the US, you can go to Lowes or any major hardware store, you can also get timers there as well. You can also go to http://www.orbitonline.com An underground one would use the same type of weeping hose that Dale was speaking of, but would be completely underground,