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A red and black portable generator sitting on a snowy surface.

Home

North Carolina couple cut off for 80 hours after Helene advise buying a generator among top tips

A dirty floor.

Home

Kitchen grout looked new again with OxiClean paste, a vinegar rinse, and one painful lesson

A person working on plumbing.

Home

Homeowner paid $220 to snake a laundry sink, then got a $491 bill for the same one-hour job

A stack of solar panels with packaging materials placed on wooden pallets.

Home

Missouri homeowner calls utility about stalled solar, learns installer never sent final paperwork

An outdoor air conditioning unit mounted on a wall.

Home

Homeowner questions new AC install after condensers are placed inches apart

A Ralphs in California.

Business

California families have weeks to use SUN Bucks as $106 million in grocery aid expires

Scaffolding with red and yellow safety barriers around a roof with solar panels under construction.

Home

UK homeowner beats scaffolding deadline by 8 hours to get 15 solar panels onto new roof

A hot water tank.

Home

Homeowner asks Reddit for water heater tips, then spends 3 days swapping it, sells copper for $60

A pile of fresh produce.

Food

California SNAP shopper buys $36 in produce and sees every dollar return to EBT

A variety of wetsuits hanging on display in different colors and sizes.

Outdoors

Around Canada's surf towns, discarded wetsuits are getting a second life

Copper pipes.

Tech

Ireland will give 40 social homes free hot water from excess renewable energy

A person with a tool belt hands an invoice to another person in an indoor setting.

Home

'Call a real HVAC company': Georgia homeowner says AC ran 14 hours a day after leak fix