Category Archives: Maintenance Monday

Maintenance Monday: Grout Care

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 17, 2007
If you’re any­thing like me, then you barely know what grout is — and don’t much care to know any­thing more.  That was me about a year ago.  Then we shelled out gobs of money to have two bath­rooms remod­eled.  In the inter­est of pro­tect­ing our invest­ments, I learned about grout.  Or, more specif­i­cally, about [...]
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Maintenance Monday: Glass Shower Enclosures

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 10, 2007
Our mas­ter bath­room is, well, not pala­tial. ;-)  Really, it’s less than 7′ x 5′ — I kid you not.  I don’t think you can build a full bath any smaller than that. When we remod­eled the mas­ter bath ear­lier this year, one fea­ture I set my heart on was find­ing an alter­na­tive to the stan­dard framed glass enclo­sure for [...]
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Monday Maintenance: The Golden Rule of Cleaning

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 3, 2007
I know that today’s main­te­nance tip will seem ridicu­lously sim­ple to some.  It’s so sim­ple, in fact, that each time I’ve thought about post­ing it I’ve man­aged to talk myself out of it. But today it occurred to me – to some peo­ple the con­cept of spend­ing less than you earn is so patently obvi­ous they’d never think to include it in the [...]
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Maintenance Monday: Auto Safety Check-Up

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 26, 2007
I was all set to con­tinue with my bath­room theme for today’s Main­te­nance Mon­day post, but an inci­dent yes­ter­day inspired me to write about auto main­te­nance instead. As I was pulling out of The Home Depot park­ing lot yes­ter­day, a guy came run­ning up behind us and told me that my left back-up light wasn’t work­ing.  After thank­ing [...]
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Maintenance Monday: Squeegee Me

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 19, 2007
I am of the “qual­ity, not quan­tity” phi­los­o­phy. But qual­ity will only get you so far; proper main­te­nance of your pos­ses­sions is a very impor­tant com­po­nent to get­ting the most value out of the qual­ity prod­ucts you buy. My Main­te­nance Mon­day “col­umn” of sorts is where I share a main­tance tip that I employ to help keep my [...]
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