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No. 6

Outdoor & Garden.

The building's exterior, the lawn, the deck, the gutters. The half of the house you can see.

The half of the property you forgot you owned. Perimeter, posts, paint, and the back-corner bed nobody told you about.

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A wooden fence in a quiet suburban backyard at golden hour
Issue 14 · Featured
№ 18 · Start here

Your fence is leaning. Here is what is actually wrong.

Posts, soil, freeze cycles, and the question of whether to replace one panel or rebuild the whole run.

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Hello friend,

This week I tried to fix our slow bathroom drain and ended up learning what a "P‑trap" is, the hard way. Here's what I'd tell past‑me on a Saturday morning…

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