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How to Buy a Water Softener
Tired of hard water spotting your dishes, clogging your pipes, and negatively affecting bathing and laundry? This expert, unbiased water softeners report will help you choose the right water softener.
How to Find and Fix a Roof Leak
Expert advice on how to find, troubleshoot and fix a roof leak, including what to do in a roof leak emergency.
How to Buy a Pellet Stove
Pellet stoves look similar to wood stoves or fireplace inserts, but the similarity ends there. Instead of burning wood, they burn small pellets typically made from recycled wood shavings.
Featured Buying Guide: Metal Roofing
How to buy metal roofing, with in-depth consumer reports on metal roof materials and types, advantages and drawbacks to consider when buying metal roofs Read more…
Why We’re Experts
HomeTips’s founder, Don Vandervort, is a nationally-known home improvement expert with more than 30 years of experience. More…
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Buying Guides
Free Buying Guides and consumer reports help you make informed product choices.
Repair It
Fix It Yourself quickly and easily with HomeTips’s step-by-step advice.
How to Install / Build
Project Guides show you how to install and do home projects from start to finish.
Yard & Garden Advice
Yard & Garden Guides help you plant, grow, and improve your yard from fence to patio.
How Things Work
How Your House Works is an illustrated guide to the inner workings of your home.
Today’s Home Tip
Plan the perfect fence! You can meet your needs AND be a good neighbor. MORE…
©Romakoma / Shutterstock.comHeavy rails and lattice panels form a striking two-sided fence along this property line.
Gas Hot Water Heater Repairs
Gas hot water heater need repair? If your gas water heater doesn’t heat, get hot enough, or stay lit, this expert DIY advice will help you fix some of these problems yourself.
How to Plant & Grow Flowers
Don’t have a green thumb? This will help you get started in making your yard beautiful. MORE…
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Why We’re Experts
HomeTips’s founder, Don Vandervort, a nationally-known home improvement expert, has more than 30 years of experience as a home improvement writer and television personality. MORE…
