Paul Cummins
Beautifying Your Gas Meter
The gas company is supposed to come by and paint your meter. My experience is they won't come out unless your meter is leaking and might...
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Paul Cummins
- Apr 4, 2019
- 1 min
I crave power!
After a remodel and adding a new set of drywall, it can be a far reach to screw in an outlet. This extender can take care of those loose...
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Paul Cummins
- Oct 20, 2018
- 1 min
Use these on your vacant properties!
Just installed a new porch light fixture for my mother-in-law. Found these great light bulbs that have an electric eye. Just keep the...
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Paul Cummins
- Jul 24, 2018
- 1 min
Can save you from a moldy attic!
This switch senses humidity and turns on the bathroom fan automatically! Good for basement and top floor bathrooms. If moisture doesn't...
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Paul Cummins
- Oct 31, 2017
- 1 min
The perfect flashlight!
This is extremely bright, can be dropped repeatedly (which I have done!), and can be focused to get just the right exposure when taking...
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Paul Cummins
- Jun 13, 2017
- 1 min
My luminous wife says, "Lighting is everything!"
Well, it certainly affects mood (ergo, "mood lighting") and is the point of argument for couples and their progeny. She does not really...
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Paul Cummins
- May 17, 2017
- 1 min
The Mystery of Electricity
Electric current flows in a circuit from the positive to the negative. It is often portrayed as a flow of electrons but it's more of a...
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Paul Cummins
- May 17, 2017
- 1 min
Who Woulda Thought?
Just read in my Black and Decker Advanced Home Wiring that we all are supposed to "exercise" our circuit breakers once a year by flipping...
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Paul Cummins
- Mar 17, 2017
- 1 min
Don't get shocked when you're blow drying!
Current code recommends Ground Fault Circuit Interupters, in basements, garages, outside and within 6 feet of water inside. They are...
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Paul Cummins
- Jan 26, 2017
- 1 min
Managing the daily grind...
We all have disposer stories. My mom would fill the sink with vegetable peelings every Thanksgiving and then try to grind them all down...
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Paul Cummins
- Jan 1, 2017
- 2 min
What not to put over what!
Ha! That title reminds me of the new grammar I learned while I was a peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. Interestingly the dialect...
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Paul Cummins
- Dec 17, 2016
- 1 min
Weird Things That Happen During Inspections: All Smoke Detectors Go Off at Once!
Within a month of each other I filled two spas and tested them. But then I drained them and one leaked into the dining room and the...
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Paul Cummins
- Nov 29, 2016
- 1 min
Easy guide light anywhere!
See the circle bottom left? That's the light sensor. Half circles at bottom are LEDs. Just remove old face plate and snap this in for...
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Paul Cummins
- Oct 20, 2016
- 1 min
Under cabinet fridge (way-way) under $2000!
You need to be able to move in your kitchen! You live in a nice neighborhood. Take a walk and go buy that ice cream! Click on image...
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Paul Cummins
- Aug 21, 2016
- 1 min
Beautiful Panel Cover
You will enjoy a solution like this even more than we inspectors who have to cut away at paint over your panel to check inside it! Click...
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Paul Cummins
- Aug 13, 2016
- 1 min
Smart Home with Home Depot
If you don't know what these things are click on them and be taken to Home Depot's new aggregation of all things Internet of Things,...
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Paul Cummins
- Jul 25, 2016
- 1 min
From No Bars to Four!
I live down near George Washington's old house. There is a bottle brush cell tower there that doesn't really look like a spruce tree. ...
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Paul Cummins
- May 2, 2016
- 1 min
Sunlight Anywhere!
Just inspected a 70 year old basement. Leaky walls, leaky plumbing, dank and dark, a huge neglected space. Any unused space is...
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Paul Cummins
- Feb 21, 2016
- 1 min
My Wife Says Light is Everything
I would add good air as an additional essential and provide lots of ventiliation ideas on this site. Basement stairs are a particular...
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Paul Cummins
- Jan 28, 2016
- 1 min
Switch Knows When Dusk and Dawn Are!
Put your longitude and latitude into this switch and it will turn off at dawn and on at dusk with NO photosensor! Click on image for...
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