New Technology For Home Water Purification!

Care Free’s Waters Edge is a new technology that utilizes natures Vortex action to condition and purify your water bringing pure water with a healthy pH of 7.2 to 7.5 for optimal health to every tap in your house or business.

With this new technology  the Waters Edge House Water Conditioner produces purer, cleaner, softer, better tasting water without using any filters, salts, chemicals, electricity or complex metal alloys for a truly maintenance free water conditioning system.

With the addition of a charcoal filter on the output side of the  system you will contain any solids and eliminate any odors from the water.

Why should you install Waters Edge in your house:

Care Free’s Waters Edge is simple and easy to install, a plumber can do it in less than a hour.

If you can read a tape measure and cut a pipe you can do it your self in less than 2 hours.

The Waters Edge will fit copper, plastic, PVC,  PEX, and other plumbing pipes, simply measure cut the pipe after the water meter where it enters the house, (if on a private well install between the water pipe entrance and the pressure tank), then snap the ends onto the pipe and you’re done.

To pure water,

Admin

Tired of Buying Bottled Water?

Are you tired of buying expensive bottled water?

Looking for an alternative to  buying expensive bottled water?

Well, I’ve found one that works. It eliminates the majority of contaminates that are in most tap water, it’s easy to install and brings clean, healthy, pure water to your whole house.

This water purification system uses natures vortex action to restructure the water to a balanced pH of 7.2 to 7.5 which is  the perfect pH range for optimal health. The Care Free Water System is a whole house water filtration system that treats, conditions, and structures the water to the entire house.

A few of other benefits that I’ve found are:

The system is easy to install with a few hand tools, there’s even a video that shows you how.

The system installs in the water line where it comes into the house after the water meter if you are on a city water system or before the pressure tank if you have your own well.

Like I said it’s easy to install, it took me about an hour to install and I added a carbon filter to help with the odor from the bacteria and to filter the suspended solids.

I have iron reducing bacteria in my water well and very hard water, 130 grains hard. After I installed the Care Free system the water tested under 100 grains hard and it eliminated the sewer smell from the iron bacteria.

Since the systems been installed I’ve reduced the amount of salt used in the softener, I don’t need to buy bottled water anymore since the taste has improved.

You can check it out here.

Admin

How To Build A Deck

Just a short post with a few deck building tips.

Before you attach the ledger board to your house determine if there is a band/rim joist to attach to .

If  your basement is unfinished or you have a crawl space you will be able to see if the house was built with 2x lumber for  floor joists. If so, life is good, you have a solid band to attach your ledger board to.

If your house was built after 1970 the floor joists may be prefabricated lumber I beams or engineered  floor trusses.

If this is the case there are a couple of options depending on your local building codes.

If your house has I beams you may be able to lag screw into the 2×2 framing of the I beam if your local codes allow this.

This is allowed by my city code.

With engineered floor trussing (these are usually built of 2×4 lumber and secured with nail plates)  find the diagonal webbing to attach the ledger board to, or if your deck is at the but end of the trussing you can lag into the the 2×4 end of the truss.

If your building codes don’t allow this you will need to reenforce the floor trussing with 2x lumber to attach the ledger to.

This may involve taking down a section of ceiling to gain  access to the floor trussing if the basement is finished.

As always talk to your building inspector to see what is required, most inspectors are there to help.

Enjoy the experience,

Admin

Deck Building, How to Plan Your Deck

Once you have decided on where to put your deck, what size you will build it, and what type of  deck material you will use to build your new back yard deck, it’s time to figure your deck material.

This will include the deck posts, the ledger board, band joists, joists and joist hangers and other hardware, screws, nails and your deck boards and the lumber for you steps and railings.

To figure my deck package with everything I will need I use a deck design software that figures all my material, lumber, fasteners, railings, and steps plus it has over 70 deck designs to choose from. It’s easier to use and a lot faster than trying to put it all on paper.

With the help of the easy to use deck planning software you are able to insert a picture of the deck you are designing into the software and see what the deck will look like attached to your house.

This allows you to view different plans and designs to come up with the perfect deck for your home.

The software also allows you to view different step and railing designs. You can then decide to build them yourself or choose one from a deck railing manufacturer.

Deck Building Codes and Permits

You have your deck designed and your deck package all ready  the next step is to get your building permit and to make sure your deck meets your city or county building codes.

Here are a some of  the codes most jurisdictions enforce:

Safety

This is important, your life or the life of your helpers could be affected  by not following these guidelines.

Always contact your building inspector to find out who to call to locate your underground utilities.

This includes:

Again, I can’t stress this enough. One phone call could save your life.

The gas, electrical, and the phone and cable tv are only buried according to code 18″ to 24″ deep. The water and sewer are from 4′ to 0ver 6′ deep.

This is what the code says but sometimes things are not a they should be.

So call before you dig!

Deck footings

These requirements will vary depending on the area you live in.

Footings should be dug below frost level plus 8″, 4″ of gravel added to the bottom of the footing hole and 4″ of concrete poured for a footing in 2′x2′ hole.

Another option for your footings is to bore  hole below frost line and insert a 1′ dia. cardboard tube and fill with concrete, you would then attach a post bracket to the footing pier for the deck post.

One more option is to dig a hole large enough to fit a 2′x2′ square  form built of 2×4s’ and make the hole 6″ to 8″ deep, fill the bottom with 3″ to 4″ of pea gravel and pour concrete to create  footing pad to attach your post bracket to.

Hope this info helps,

Admin

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Deck Building, How To Plan your Deck

It’s spring and time to start building the deck you have always wanted but didn’t quite know where to start.

Here is a plan to to get you started on building your new back yard deck. This  quick guide will give you some ideas and helpful tips on some of the options to consider before you start building your new deck.

Deck Building Steps

The first item of business is to envision what you are going to use your deck for then move on to where you will place it, how big do you make it, how much is it going to cost, what type of material will you build your deck with.

Once you’ve decided how your going to use your deck an easy way to come up with the size is to make some card board cut outs of the furniture and other accessories you will have on the deck, also estimate how many people will be using the deck at  the same time.

Next decide where to place the deck. Will the deck be attached to the house or do you envision a free standing deck somewhere in the backyard?

Now it’s time to pick the material you will use to build your deck. There are many different types of wood and composite deck building material to choose from and your budget will determine what materials or combination of materials you will use.

Deck Building Material

These are some of the most common deck building material being  used today:

Treated lumber, red wood, cedar, and the various composite decking material.

Here are some ways to use the different materials to build your deck.

The least expensive would be to build your deck entirely of treated lumber.

The next would be to use treated lumber for your post and deck framing, and use cedar, redwood or your choice composite for the deck boards, stairs and railings.

The deck plan that would cost the most would be to build entirely of red wood or cedar.

Another way to plan and build  your deck is to use treated wood for your deck framing and use composite material for your deck boards, stairs and railings.

You can  enhance the appearance of your deck if you use treated lumber for the framing and  a composite for your decking, you can then cover the treated framing members with 5/4 composite material. In this way your deck will have a cleaner more professional look.

This option will likely be the most costly but you will have less maintenance in the long run.

At this time you should decide if you will want to add deck lighting, if you do then this is the time to do it.

If  you add the  deck lighting when you are building your deck it is easier to install and hide  the wiring for the deck lights under the deck flooring and bring it up into the railing post and stair risers if you want to add step lights.

Hope this info was helpful,

Admin

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