Luxury vinyl tile (commonly known as LVT) has become the fastest growing sector of the flooring industry in recent years. Not to be confused with vinyl rolls that are often used as cheaper options for covering bathroom or kitchen floors. Those who are more familiar with the brands than the type of flooring itself often mistakenly refer to LVT as […]

Boarding a cruise ship is always a crowded affair. So it was in Honolulu. What surprised us was that we had to remove the locks from our bags before boarding. The ship, the Norwegian “Pride of America”, was similar in size to the Princess ships we had sailed around Australia on. So we expected to get to our cabin after […]

Today we are going to talk about RV holding tanks. To start off, I wanted to mention something about RV storage tanks that I don’t think a lot of RVs know about. Many of the free dump stations available for RVs are closing due to chemicals that are harmful to septic systems and because RVs are abusing these dump stations. […]

Whether you need a place to perfect your favorite gourmet recipe or a place to heat up a frozen pizza, the kitchen is an integral part of any home. From enjoying your coffee in the morning to catching up with friends or family over dinner, most of us spend a considerable amount of time in our kitchens, which makes it […]

To make great coffee, generally start with contemporary beans. They should seem a bit oily, they should usually be potent. Make an effort to avoid extremely dry beans, supermarket beans, and beans that have been exposed to the air for a long time. The best thing to do is roast the beans yourself or buy them from a community roaster. […]

If you’re considering selling your home, you’ll encounter a competitive real estate market, so you should do everything you can to make your home more attractive to buyers and get the most out of your home. This is called building equity in your home. Home equity is the difference between the outstanding payments still owed on the home and the […]

Aliens and Adolf Hitler may not seem to have much in common. But on the side of an isolated mountain in one of the most remote areas of the Canary Islands lies a spacious villa that has given rise to mysterious legends about both of them. This spacious villa is hidden from the world between the mountains and the wild […]

The term sapwood stain and blue stain is used in many articles related to rot and wood preservation. One should understand this term as a first step in understanding the degradation and rotting of wood. What is SAPSTAIN? A tree consists of many parts, but two terms will suffice for this brief treatise, heartwood (physiologically dead wood located near the […]

The name “color matching cabinet” is familiar to many people who work in the textile and plastics industry. As the name suggests, it offers a standardized visual assessment of color. It is used for color fastness determination in textile and other industries. The color fastness is determined by an electronic crockmeter machine, which is an advanced and highly coveted machine […]

Some of the things to take into account in a kitchen floor are the type of incidents and traffic that occur in a kitchen. There are some types of flooring that would not do well in the kitchen realm. Kitchen floors deal with dropped eggs, spilled liquids, and other miscellaneous masses. One option is that hand-scraped, grooved and distressed floors […]