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EcoFlow Says Its New Ocean Pro Is Better Than Tesla’s Powerwall

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/07/16/ecoflow-says-its-new-ocean-pro-is-better-than-teslas-powerwall/

EcoFlow Says Its New Ocean Pro Is Better Than Tesla’s Powerwall

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/07/16/ecoflow-says-its-new-ocean-pro-is-better-than-teslas-powerwall/

EcoFlow Says Its New Ocean Pro Is Better Than Tesla’s Powerwall

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/07/16/ecoflow-says-its-new-ocean-pro-is-better-than-teslas-powerwall/

EcoFlow Says Its New Ocean Pro Is Better Than Tesla’s Powerwall

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/07/16/ecoflow-says-its-new-ocean-pro-is-better-than-teslas-powerwall/

EcoFlow Says Its New Ocean Pro Is Better Than Tesla’s Powerwall

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/07/16/ecoflow-says-its-new-ocean-pro-is-better-than-teslas-powerwall/

This Bare Front Yard Became a Sunset Garden Walkway https://www.allforgardening.com/1836367/this-bare-front-yard-became-a-sunset-garden-walkway/ #BeforeAndAfter #CurbAppeal #CurbAppealIdeas #FrontYardGarden #FrontYardLandscape #FrontYardLandscapes #FrontYardLandscaping #FrontYardLandscapingIdeas #FrontYardMakeover #FrontYard? #GardenLights #GardenWalkway #HomeImprovement #landscaping #SatisfyingTransformation #shorts #WalkwayIdeas

Taming the Mess and the Schedule

https://carolineprice.com/2026/06/08/taming-the-mess-and-the-schedule/

FYI: Half of Americans now trust AI over human pros for home interior design: Adobe surveyed 1,026 Americans: AI visualization tools for home design save $371 per year and stop 62% of wrong purchases before consumers reach the checkout. https://ppc.land/half-of-americans-now-trust-ai-over-human-pros-for-home-interior-design/ #AI #InteriorDesign #HomeDesign #HomeImprovement #Survey

Half of Americans now trust AI over human pros for home interior design: Adobe surveyed 1,026 Americans: AI visualization tools for home design save $371 per year and stop 62% of wrong purchases before consumers reach the checkout. https://ppc.land/half-of-americans-now-trust-ai-over-human-pros-for-home-interior-design/ #AI #InteriorDesign #HomeDesign #ArtificialIntelligence #HomeImprovement

Finally extended my night stand with a white board, cut to size and some shelf brackets. Bridging the free gap this way, rather than an extra table, allows the vacuum robot better access and means less dust. 👍

The IKEA #Kallax, with their hollow walls, did not make this easy though. I used some very long screws so they would bite on both sides of the hollow wall. If that turns out to be insufficient, I can still use different ones and a nut on the inside.

#woodworking #homeimprovement

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

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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

How to instantly increase your house price by £60k https://www.allforgardening.com/1661864/how-to-instantly-increase-your-house-price-by-60k/ #garden #GardenValue #gardening #GardeningCanada #HomeImprovement #HomeRenovation #HousePrices #HowToAddValueToHouse #HowToIncreasePropertyPrice #IncreaseHouseValue #OutdoorLiving #pergola

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

It’s already 25°C and I am dripping with sweat… but a slight modification had to be completed! Made a shelf in the main #poolpond area to hold a milk crate, which will hold one of the pumps.

I decided it was critical to have circulation from the bottom of the pool including taking water from the bottom to send to the filter. But since the main pump area is in the intake bay/skimmer I would have had to bring a pipe up and over the wall and down into pool. (The pumps must be submerged in at least 6” of water at all times)

This would be inefficient and potentially have air lock problems… so I pulled back the three layers of liner and cloth and excavated a little nook in the already semi hidden back corner.

This will have to do. :) the sun was already coming over the house. The rubber liner gets very hot 🥵. Glad it didn’t take too long.

There will be a rock or some sort of wall below and in front of the crate to further support and hide it.

Oh, and now that the liner and stuff is all back, the 🐜 ants can go back to their regularly scheduled ant-ing.
#diy #backyardpond #hot #ants #gardening #homeimprovement #portalberni

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

Another day for the kitchen remodel project. Here’s hoping it’s the last day.

They are doing some touch up work on things that have otherwise been finished. They are hanging some stuff on top of the tile. They are doing a little painting.

I think that’s all that’s left to do. Once they are done we have to clean up any dust they left behind and then wash all of the dishes that have been sitting out collecting dust over the last week and then find a new home for everything in the new cabinet/storage setup.

I am so ready for this project to be over. I want my house back again.

Unrelated note… I used my good camera to take today’s photo a day picture. I will post it now for no reason at all.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/05/almost-done-i-hope/

#365 #365Challenge #homeImprovement #homeOwner #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #homeUpgrades #kitchen #kitchenRedesign #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #z5

The plumber went out to get some dinner. He expects he has about two hours more work to do tonight. It’s 600pm. I think we’re going to be working until after 9:00pm again tonight.

Insert the sign of frustration here.

Stressing out like nuts over here, kids. Like nuts.

The plumber just walked in the door. Here’s hoping he can wrap it up in two hours. Fingers crossed.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/04/frustration-2/

#homeImprovement #homeOwner #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #kitchen #kitchenRedesign #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #plumber #Plumbing

The last time we had a home improvement project done was about a year ago when we had new windows installed. When the project started we were so excited. After a few days without the project being completed our mood changed and the whole thing just became super frustrating. We wanted it to be over so that we could have our house back again.

We expected the kitchen remodel project we’re currently involved with to take ages. The contractor told us he would have everything installed by the end of the second day. Then we needed walls patched and tile work done, plumbing work, and touch up and paint work.

The tile guy got here yesterday around 8:00am. He left a little before 10:00pm. It was around 8:30pm or so when the mood for this project changed again. We just crossed some invisible line between excitement and frustration. It’s is totally unfair to the contractors because we are still in their estimated window of how long it would take to finish everything. It doesn’t matter. It’s all just stress now, no more excitement.

The tile guy is coming back today. The plumber is coming too. It’s 9:26am and we haven’t heard from either of them yet, but we aren’t expecting to until after 10:00. IKEA was just here picking up some of the things we need to return to them. There is a mountain more stuff that needs to be returned. We aren’t sure if we can get them to come back or not. I expect we’ll be driving down there one of these days soon. We also need to book a junk pick up because there’s a lot of stuff that needs to be removed still. We also need to clean off all of the dust that is covering everything before we use anything in our new kitchen.

I’m stressing out. We’re stressing out. It’s starting to be difficult.

I went to Home Depot this morning to pick up some stuff for the tile guy. Pics from the drive home… because.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/04/the-mood-has-changed/

#design #homeImprovement #homeRemodel #homeRemodeling #homeUpgrades #iphoneography #kitchen #kitchenRemodel #kitchenRemodeling #kitchenUpgrades #photography #remodeling #renovation

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.

https://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

From what I understand, they also do power washing and hang Christmas lights. Feel free to support a local small business.

#johnstonCountyNC #homeImprovement #shudderInstall #dangerousJobs #smallBusiness #smallBusinessSupport #thankYou #christmasLightsInstallation #powerWashing

A huge THANK YOU goes out to CV Power Washing Services LLC for taking this task on when so many others failed to respond.

#johnstonCountyNC #homeImprovement #shudderInstall #dangerousJobs #smallBusiness #smallBusinessSupport #thankYou #christmasLightsInstallation #powerWashing

I am so happy to finally have my shudders put back on the house. We took them down a season or two ago to paint them but couldn't put them back on. Instead of risking my life to put them back, I called in an expert.

#johnstonCountyNC #homeImprovement #shudderInstall #dangerousJobs #smallBusiness #smallBusinessSupport #thankYou #christmasLightsInstallation #powerWashing