Raise the roof
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Across the northwest, flat roofs top apartment buildings, office complexes and supermarkets are cheap and easy to build, but it can be a bad choice in cool and wet conditions. King County Housing Authority (KCHA) introduced the warm roof design in its properties, working with jurisdictions for code change to allow improved design, so that besides being energy efficient, roofs built this way would last longer than the traditional roofs.
Publication Name: Home Energy
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0896-9442
Year: 2005
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Bioterrorism regulations invoked for Pelargonium disease
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Quarantined nurseries growing geraniums (Pelargonium spp.) has to undergo USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service scrutiny to prevent an outbreak of a fungal disease caused by southern bacterial wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum race 3 biovar 2). The infected plants will be destroyed under strict quarantine protocol laid under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Bioterrorism Act of 2002.
Publication Name: The American Gardener
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1087-9978
Year: 2003
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The trut
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A step-by-step guide is provided on how to patch holes in drywalls. The first step is to cut out the patch, then prep the hole, add strapping, attach the patch, and cover the seams.
Publication Name: This Old House
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1086-2633
Year: 2006
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