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Every autumn I see the same balcony: a ladder, a coil of christmas string lights, and one indoor-rated cord. It looks great until the first frost, when the connectors start popping and the wire jacket starts crumbling. Balcony is the hardest spot on any house. Full sun by day, freezing by night, zero room to hide the wiring.Here is the fix list I g..

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I've spent enough years on the production floor of a factory that builds both electric lights and flameless candles to have opinions about this. The word "toxic" gets slapped on lit candles in almost every Reddit thread, and in almost every case it's wrong. But it's not wrong because of what most people think it's wrong about. Here's what a lit can..

You did not buy a candle to babysit it. You want to light it, sit down, and forget it is there. So when it starts smoking, when the room takes on that acrid bite, when you find a black ring on the vessel and a fine dust of soot on the sill, your first thought is that your candle is defective. It usually is not. You broke the one rule that actually ..

You have seen the advice. It is everywhere, it comes from serious shops, and it is slightly wrong. "Burn for two hours." "Burn for three to four." "Never burn a candle for more than four hours." Read a dozen candle sites and you get a dozen different clocks, all of them telling you to watch the time instead of the wax. That is the real mistake hidi..