How to Deep Clean Your Oven Without Choking on Fumes
An overnight baking soda paste lifts most baked-on grease with almost no fumes. When to use it, when the self-clean cycle makes sense, and what not to do to either kind of oven.
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Composting in a Small Backyard: Bins, Balance, and Fixing a Smelly Pile
How to choose between a lidded bin, a tumbler and a wire ring for a small yard, the browns-to-greens habit that prevents most problems, and what each bad smell means.
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How to Patch a Fist-Sized Hole in Drywall Yourself
For a 3- to 6-inch hole, use a self-adhesive mesh patch or a California patch cut from scrap drywall. Which to choose, a coat-by-coat schedule, and how to fix bumps, cracks and bubbles.
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