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This Old House offers ideas for cooling your home, maintaining your yard and garden, planting trees, building a deck, and more summer upkeep projects

28 Easy Summer Weekend Projects

Take advantage of the warm weather to add some of these fun and beautiful upgrades to your home … more

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More on Summer Upkeep: Cooling; Decks; Driveway & Walkway; Insulation; Gardening; Patio; Pools; Porch

INTERIOR Upkeep

How to Have a Money-Making Yard Sale

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EXTERIOR Upkeep

diversity of flowers planted together in a dramatic entry garden

12 Summer Upkeep Ideas To Add Curb Appeal

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YARD & GARDEN Upkeep

How to Have a Money-Making Yard Sale

More YARD & GARDEN Upkeep:: How to Get Late-Summer Color in Your Garden; 19 Beautiful Backyard Building Projects; How to Install In-Ground Sprinklers; 11 Ways Yard Work Can Kill, Maim or Blind You; What To Do When Your Yard Is Bowser's Bathroom; Moss in the Yard

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COOLING Upkeep

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Summer Upkeep Tip

Empty the gas tank on your power lawn mower before cleaning it and storing it for the winter. Unused gas left in the tank can get stale, gumming up the carburetor and inviting rust. Disconnect the spark plug to prevent accidental starts while you're working.