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12 August 2021 | 15 replies
The plastic type ones end up looking nice if you paint the rails a bright white.
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16 March 2019 | 9 replies
My husband doesn’t like the plastic wall tubs but I don’t mind them and it’s not a forever home.
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13 June 2010 | 24 replies
Some guys want to do the whole oxygen tank, bio-suit deal when it really is not necessary.In some cases all you need to do is remove the moldy drywall, double wrap it in 6mil plastic and dump it while wearing a one dollar n-100 mask from home depot.
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4 June 2023 | 22 replies
They’re both in the NW Cape and sustained very minimal damage from hurricane Ian, including the coachlight globes out front were broken and missing plastic lids on the well equipment but that was about it.
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24 June 2015 | 7 replies
So, we also have two large 90 galllon recycling carts (one for glass, one for mixed recycle - paper/plastic/metal) that are also provided by the service.
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2 December 2023 | 6 replies
This includes getting a 1000 gallon tank, the county not liking the plastic plug in the bottom, swapping for 2 500 gallon tanks, and a few other glitches.
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6 March 2019 | 86 replies
I don't know if this is frugal or practical, but I use the small cardboard boxes with my packets of instant oatmeal as trash receptacles and plastic cereal bags as their liners.
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19 September 2014 | 15 replies
I also skipped the plastic washers and just used fender washers backed with pre-drilled pieces of wood (lath scraps).
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9 April 2019 | 70 replies
Painting brick is like wrapping the building in plastic.
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30 July 2020 | 154 replies
Bought a teardown at a tax auction, went in and knocked a hole in one of the kitchen walls, found three stud bays filled with plastic-wrapped used bills, mostly twenties but lots of fifties, hundreds. $873K total.