Category: Maintenance
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The Spring Home Maintenance Checklist
When the weather starts to warm up, you can’t wait to spend more time outside. But once you’re outside, you may quickly realize that the ice, snow, and sleet of winter have taken their toll on your home.
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Plano Collection Schedules
2024 Bulky Waste Collection Calendar (PDF) 2024 Trash Collection Calendar (PDF) 2024 Recycling Collection Calendar (PDF) Official Collection Schedules
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Household Hazardous Waste
Properly Disposing of Hazardous Waste Please call Environmental Waste Services Customer Service at 972-769-4150 to schedule a free chemical collection at least 24 hours prior to your scheduled household chemical collection day. The collection will be scheduled for the next available date. Household chemical collections are scheduled by zip code. Learn more about scheduling and collection criteria.…
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Electric Work Recommendations
Kelle Horie of Russell Creek • posted 1 hr ago I am looking for an electric company or electrician that is excellent, honest and reliable to do an entire inspection of my electrical wiring in my house. I have some outlets that don’t work, but my house was built in 1981 and I feel it…
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6 of the Most Important Tips I’ve Learned from Renovating 3 Kitchens in 5 Years
BY Dana McMahan a freelance writer who is a chronic adventurer, serial learner, and whiskey enthusiast based in Louisville, Kentucky. Updated Jan 18, 2021 on https://www.thekitchn.com/tips-serial-kitchen-renovator-23115816 Renovating a kitchen is kind of like getting a tattoo. It can be painful while it’s happening, but the end result is so worth it that you forget the bad parts.…
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Peachtree Spring/Summer Support
Assets: When not raining for 3+ consecutive days, set the bucket 3′ out from the trunk with the rock in first(keeps it from tipping in the wind or from animals knocking it over), then fill it with water, and lastly add the olive oil (to suffocate any mosquito larva that tries to hatch). Every 3…
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The Art Of Baking Soda Cleaning
If you want to reduce the number of chemicals in your household cleaning but don’t want to sacrifice cleansing power, you need to know about baking soda. While baking may be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of bicarbonate of soda, you can use it to easily and inexpensively clean every…
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Residential Food Scrap Composting
About the Program Up to 40% of the food in the United States is wasted and sent to landfill, generating methane emissions as it decomposes. In Plano, food waste collected as part of curbside residential trash services is transported to a transfer station, combined with trash collected from other routes, then takes the approximately 25-mile…
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Composting Tips & Tricks
Whether you’re new to home gardening or a seasoned expert, our collection of 50 composting tips will help. Enjoy! 1. Grass clippings add necessary nitrogen to a compost pile, but be sure to mix with the “brown” materials that add carbon. Both are necessary for quick decomposition and rich compost. Piles made up of just grass will…
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Is Dog Poop Compostable?
by Cara @ Doggy Do Good The short answer is yes, dog waste is compostable, but there are necessary precautions you must take first to make sure you’re composting the waste properly. Recently we published a dog blog on reasons why you should pick up your dog’s poop. And the reasons are many. When dog waste…