I got my van into my garage. When I bought this house, I realized that the garage was too short by several inches, so I've been keeping my van outside. This means I have to run heaters to it in the winter, do repairs outside in the cold, and wash it much more frequently. After getting a $400 electric bill this month, I reconsidered how important it is to get it in there.
Yesterday I realized that the main part of the problem is a support beam on the back of the garage door. After
The van has only one problem, a power steering problem that makes it pull to the left when you brake hard. I’ll fix that before I sell it, it just hasn’t bothered me enough to take the time off.
The TM has two problems: the float valve on the freshwater tank does not work, so I have to fill it from the top, and the auto-cutoff on the waste tank does not work (when it failed the machine cut off so I had to bypass it). I fill and empty
I don't know what it's called--it's at Home Depot and Lowes. It's a thick wire wrapped in foam, so you can bend it and it stays. They're also cheap. I use them to hook my hoses to the bannister because they don't pop off. The hose stays secure even when the vacuum kicks in and tugs on it.
We are not set up for this! My street hasn't been cleared yet, and it snowed three days ago. The mailman hasn't even been down my street. Main roads are clear, but most of the neighborhoods I've seen are kinda hairy. I'll be glad when it warms up.
It doesn't look like I can embed a video, so there's a link.
My wife twirls a fire baton for the first time since she was in college. How is that relevant to carpet cleaning? Well, kinda tangentially, my wife supports me in the lifestyle to which I've become accustomed so I can clean carpets nearly for free...
Actually, I'm just trying to boost the entertainment value of my blog.