#homeimprovement — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #homeimprovement, aggregated by home.social.
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Neakasa Riko Honored with the IFA 2026 Innovation Award at IFA Berlin
BERLIN, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Neakasa, a global provider of smart pet care solutions, announced at IFA…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Berlin #Animals&Pets #artificialintelligence #Awards #Computer&Electronics #Consumer&Cosmetics #consumerelectronics #HomeImprovement #Household #HouseholdProducts #Neakasa #retail #TradeShowNews
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/162794/ Neakasa Riko Honored with the IFA 2026 Innovation Award at IFA Berlin #Animals&Pets #ArtificialIntelligence #Awards #berlin #Computer&Electronics #Consumer&Cosmetics #ConsumerElectronics #Germany #HomeImprovement #Household #HouseholdProducts #Neakasa #Retail #TradeShowNews
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A black and grey bathroom fails when the black goes on the big surfaces. Keep the large areas grey, put black on the faucet, mirror frame and trim, and use one black finish throughout. Mixing matte black with oil rubbed bronze is what reads accidental.
https://www.omnihomeideas.com/design/interior/black-and-grey-bathroom-ideas/
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A black and grey bathroom fails when the black goes on the big surfaces. Keep the large areas grey, put black on the faucet, mirror frame and trim, and use one black finish throughout. Mixing matte black with oil rubbed bronze is what reads accidental.
https://www.omnihomeideas.com/design/interior/black-and-grey-bathroom-ideas/
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Home Improvement season three DVD I bought at Goodwill
#HomeImprovement #DVD #DVDCollector #GoodwillFinds #90s -
VEVOR startet auf der IFA Berlin 2026 seinen Offline-Auftritt in Europa
VEVOR startet auf der IFA Berlin 2026 seinen Offline-Auftritt in Europa – erste europäische Filiale für 2027 in…
#EuropeSays #EU #Europa #Consumer&Cosmetics #ConsumerElectronics #FurnitureandFurnishings #HomeImprovement #Household #HouseholdProducts #Retail #TradeShowNews #VEVOR
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The biggest Do-it-yourself Project I ever tackled was building my first house. My father and I did all the work except for the masonry. 1978. #house #stickbuilt #framing #houseframing #lumber #lumberyard #insulation #masonry #foundatiion #cinderblock #cinderblocks #doityourself #doityourselfproject #homeimprovement #homeproject #building #builders #construction #constructionwork #home #house #houses #homes #juniatacounty #pennsylvania #1970s #twentiethcentury #bilevel #hometypes #types
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We Turned Our Front Entrance into a Vibrant Vegetable Garden
#FrontGarden #VegetableGarden #GardenMakeover #DIYGarden #RaisedBeds #HomeGarden #Gardening #BeforeAfter #GardenTransformation #OutdoorLiving #GrowYourOwn #KitchenGarden #SmallGarden #GardenInspiration #HomeImprovement
#dining #cooking #diet #food #VegetableGardening #VegetableGarden #VegetableGardenVideos #VegetableGardeningVideos
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2728579/we-turned-our-front-entrance-into-a-vibrant-vegetable-garden/ -
Sanding and re-finishing the attic floor of my Freedom Avenue house was one of the largest 'Do-It-Yourself' projects I've tackled. 1995. #doityourself #doityourselflproject #doityourselfprojects #homeproject #homeprojects #homefixup #homeimprovement #homeimprovementideas #victorianhomes #colonialhomes #colonialhouse #colonialhouses #victorianhouse #victorianhouses #oldhouses #vintage #library #book #books #bookcollection #bookcollections #1990s #twentiethcentury #gauguin #painting #paintings
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Heat Recovery Ventilator (HRV) — Operating Principle
A recuperator (heat recovery unit) transfers heat from exhaust air to incoming fresh air without mixing the two streams.
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How It Works
Two airflows:
Exhaust air (warm, from indoors)
Supply air (cold, from outside)
They pass through a heat exchanger:
separated by plates or channels
no direct mixing
heat transfers through the material (conduction)
Result: → supply air is preheated
→ exhaust air is cooled
→ overall heat loss is reduced---
Types of Recuperators
1. Plate Heat Exchanger
aluminum or plastic plates
efficiency: ~60–90%
no moving parts
2. Rotary (Wheel) Heat Exchanger
rotating drum
transfers heat and some moisture
efficiency: up to ~85–90%
3. Counterflow Heat Exchanger
air streams move in opposite directions
highest efficiency: up to ~95%
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What Is Transferred
heat (primary)
sometimes moisture (in enthalpy units)
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Efficiency Example
outside: 0°C
indoor: +22°C
after recovery: ~16–20°C
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Advantages
reduced heating energy demand
continuous ventilation without major heat loss
improved indoor air quality
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Limitations
frost formation in winter (needs bypass or preheater)
filter maintenance required
upfront cost
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Core Idea
A recuperator doesn’t generate heat — it recovers and reuses it.
#HVAC #HeatRecovery #HRV #ERV #EnergyEfficiency #Ventilation #IndoorAirQuality #AirExchange #HeatExchanger #SustainableLiving #GreenBuilding #EnergySaving #HomeComfort #SmartHome #BuildingEngineering #ClimateControl #EcoTech #Airflow #FreshAir #LowEnergy #PassiveHouse #NetZero #HomeImprovement #Engineering #CleanAir
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“From Dirty Corner to Dream Garden 😍🌿 | So Satisfying!”#usa #gardendesign #shorts #shortsfeed https://www.allforgardening.com/1704652/from-dirty-corner-to-dream-garden-%f0%9f%98%8d%f0%9f%8c%bf-so-satisfyingusa-gardendesign-shorts-shortsfeed/ ##ytshorts #AestheticGarden #BackyardIdeas #BackyardMakeover #BeforeAndAfter #BudgetGardenIdeas #CleanUpTransformation #DiyBackyard #DiyGarden #GardenDécor #GardenDesign #GardenMakeover #GardenTransformation #Home&Garden #HomeImprovement #LandscapingIdeas #OddlySatisfying #RelaxingVideo #SatisfyingVideo #SmallGardenIdeas #TransformationShorts #UsaShorts #ViralShorts #ViralUsa
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Your Home's Lifetime Tool Companion 🛠️
Step back to an era of enduring craftsmanship.
This Goodell-Pratt Home Companion is a lifetime of essential tools.#goodellpratt #homecompaniontoolset #vintagetools #antiquetools #classictools #toolkit #woodworking #handtools #retroad #vintagead #oldadvertisement #edwardianera #1905advertisement #turnofthecentury #madeinusa #homeimprovement #diyhome #qualitytools
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A metal awning over the front door helps block sun, deflect rain, and protect the entry from daily exposure.
It’s a small addition that improves comfort and helps reduce long-term wear on exterior materials.
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🌿🏡 Beat the heat AND save money! This AI-designed paint reflects sunlight, keeping your home cooler and cutting energy costs by 30%. Tech meets sustainability!
https://eproductempire.blogspot.com/2025/08/this-ai-designed-paint-could-cut-your.html
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"𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐍" - Brand new art from the Blue Ridge Mountains! https://buff.ly/40zx5sz
#wallartforsale #homeimprovement #interiordesigner #interiors #foreverhome #workspace #boldandbeautiful #drama #housedecor #walldecor #room #BuyIntoArt #BlueRidgeParkway -
Wednesday marked a personal milestone that I had to research before gracing it with a calendar entry: Twenty years earlier, my wife and I moved into the house that we still occupy today.
Signing the papers for that 1920 bungalow represented a step into the real-estate unknown in 2004. A few months earlier, realizing that the condo I’d bought four years earlier had appreciated to almost double that purchase price, it had seemed sensible at least to see what was on the market nearby–and after visiting 10 properties, one with a big old front porch and what we thought was well-renovated kitchen seemed like it would fit into our budget and provide just enough room for a family.
So we considered the reality of housing not getting any cheaper around here and chose to take the step that turned out to be more of a leap.
We didn’t want to move anytime soon afterwards–I hate moving so much–two of us became three of us, the seasons rolled on by, and at a point I didn’t even think to look up in 2019, our tenure in this house surpassed the 15 years or so that I had spent in my childhood home.
An equally unknown date in 2020 marked our home’s presumptive 100th birthday (“presumptive” meaning that the property-tax records that aren’t specific on the construction date could have the year wrong too). But the pandemic that gave us so much around-the-house time meant we couldn’t properly celebate our abode achieving century-home status anyway.
Another four years have elapsed, during which I have begun to enjoy seeing how much the balance on the mortgage drops with each payment, and here we are.
We’ve shaped the house in our own ways, repainting it on the inside and out while making minor and major repairs and improvements that in 2008 turned a shoebox of a room upstairs into a legitimate home office and this winter finally gave us a new kitchen. And it’s shaped us, turning me in particular into not just a cook but a baker and occasional homebrewer and providing me with a much bigger canvas for my gardening than the condo’s balcony (alas, I still suck at growing tomatoes).
The neighborhood, meanwhile, has advanced immensely as buildings have continued to sprout around the two closest Metro stops while Arlington continues to carve out more room along our streets for pedestrians and cyclists. It’s not always clear that individual blocks near us have improved as much when homes looking like ours keep getting torn down and replaced by McMansions–but I know one address where that’s not going to happen anytime soon.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/07/20/twenty-years-is-a-long-time-in-one-house/
#bungalow #centuryHome #frontPorch #homeImprovement #homeownership #house #houseiversary #mortgage
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Happy Friday, everyone. Hopefully Friday has meaning for most if not all of us. It has extra meaning for me this week. Starting this month my company has changed it’s hybrid work requirements. Where it used to be that we had to be in the office for 20% of each pay period (basically one day each week), as of March 1st we have to be in the office for 40% of each pay period (basically twice per week). Today is my first, second day of a week. None of us our happy with this, but it’s a whole ton better than being back 80%, which is what we had prior to the pandemic shut down. Oh well. I’ll deal with it. I am still coming in every Wednesday. My group has Wednesdays as a mandate and the second day each week is at everyone’s personal discretion. I am sort of planning on making Mondays my regular second day, just to get it over with, but that didn’t work this week due to the contractors working in the kitchen. Friday was the only day that worked for me. Fortunately there was zero traffic today. I made the 40 mile drive to the office in 45 minutes. If only it were like that every morning.
In other news, the kids are on the ground. Bellana’s flight landed in Georgia (the US state, not the European country) before I went to sleep last night. Harry’s first flight landed in London well after I nodded off for the night, and his connecting flight landed in Scotland before I woke up this morning. All is well on both of those fronts. Here’s hoping they both have a great time on their trips.
I am taking advantage of the fact that I am 40 miles from home right now to make my way to IKEA after work. IKEA is about 60 miles from home, but only 20 miles from work. I will head down there as soon as I am free and go to the returns department and bring back a great big pile of stuff that IKEA included in our kitchen redesign blue print that we didn’t end up needing. There is a lot of stuff to return. A lot of stuff. If I get it all done tonight then we don’t have to worry about it, and with the money we get back maybe I’ll be able to afford a hair cut this weekend because damn, do I need a hair cut!
Anyway, here’s today’s photo-a-day picture. I took it before I did my workout this morning at about 5:40am. It’s only 9:14am now but it’s already felt like a long day.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/08/happy-friday-4/
#collegeKids #commute #commuter #es335 #Family #Gibson #gibsonEs335 #GibsonES335Pro #Guitar #homeImprovement #hybridWork #hybridWorkSchedule #IKEA #Kids #kitchenRedesign #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #morning #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #returnToTheOffice #springBreak #StepKids #Travel #trips #work #z5
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The progress being made in the kitchen is stunning. The demo is done and they are installing cabinets. It feels like they might be as much as half a day ahead of schedule. We’re already starting to talk about things that weren’t supposed to happen this weekend. Tiling and painting, specifically. The tile guy is coming on Sunday. It’s absolutely nuts!
Anyway, here’s today’s photo a day pic. I took it before the kitchen guys got here this morning because I didn’t know if I would get a chance for anything once the crazy arrived.
183/365https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/01/photo-a-day-14/
#365 #365Challenge #contracotrs #es335 #es335Pro #GibsonES335Pro #Guitar #homeImprovement #homeImprovements #homeOwner #iphoneography #kitchen #kitchenImprovements #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography
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I'm within 4 hours of completing a project that's taken 3 yrs. 18 cabinet doors & 7 drawers stripped, sanded, primed & painted (2 coats), all new hinges (new holes drilled) & handles installed. Life, lassitude & injuries have gotten in the way, not to mention a chronically ill spouse who sleeps most of the day; drilling & sanding are a problem & b/c of his COPD, so is painting.
I'm stoked. Damocles Sword will be no longer.
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The #DeclutterChallenge Day 1
After months of remodeling chaos, my sewing room is a mess. Time to take out the garbage according to her Day 1 declutter challenge.
https://www.blogula-rasa.com/2023/06/04/the-declutterchallenge-day-1/
#AllAboutMe #HomeImprovement #SewingAndQuilting #DeclutterChallenge #Quilting
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The #DeclutterChallenge Day 1
After months of remodeling chaos, my sewing room is a mess. Time to take out the garbage according to her Day 1 declutter challenge.
https://www.blogula-rasa.com/2023/06/04/the-declutterchallenge-day-1/
#AllAboutMe #HomeImprovement #SewingAndQuilting #DeclutterChallenge #Quilting
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The #DeclutterChallenge Day 1
After months of remodeling chaos, my sewing room is a mess. Time to take out the garbage according to her Day 1 declutter challenge.
https://www.blogula-rasa.com/2023/06/04/the-declutterchallenge-day-1/
#AllAboutMe #HomeImprovement #SewingAndQuilting #DeclutterChallenge #Quilting
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The #DeclutterChallenge Day 1
After months of remodeling chaos, my sewing room is a mess. Time to take out the garbage according to her Day 1 declutter challenge.
https://www.blogula-rasa.com/2023/06/04/the-declutterchallenge-day-1/
#AllAboutMe #HomeImprovement #SewingAndQuilting #DeclutterChallenge #Quilting
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The #DeclutterChallenge Day 1
After months of remodeling chaos, my sewing room is a mess. Time to take out the garbage according to her Day 1 declutter challenge.
https://www.blogula-rasa.com/2023/06/04/the-declutterchallenge-day-1/
#AllAboutMe #HomeImprovement #SewingAndQuilting #DeclutterChallenge #Quilting
