The Best Home Repair Hacks from Your Local Repairman

Noodle Use

There are endless uses for foam pool noodles. If you often lose a sock or two along the side of your washing machine, a pool noodle can fill the gap between the washer and the wall so you'll never have to dig into the abyss for a lost sock again. 

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The More You Know

  • Store small extension cords neatly with this simple office supply hack: Attach a paperclip to a small rubber band. Then wrap the rubber band around the bundled cord and clasp the paperclip onto the rubber band again.
  • A reservoir in space holds 140 trillion times the amount of water in Earth's oceans.
  • Next time you oversalt a soup, toss in a few wedges of raw apple or potato. Simmer for 10 minutes and discard the wedges to get the flavor back to normal.
  • Help keep your home office space organized by using PVC pipe to hide cords. Just wrangle all those computer, mouse, monitor and phone cords and hide them in some PVC pipe.
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