Simple ways to protect your home or cottage from spring flooding

Simple ways to protect your home or cottage from spring flooding

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Some great ideas/tips, best to start now before there is a problem.

A clean start to the Cottage season

Cottage comforts: Make a clean start on the season

A checklist for clearing out the clutter and freshening things up

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Some great tips and ideas 

5 spring cleaning tips for your cottage

5 spring cleaning tips for your cottage

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Before the fun starts, it's clean up time. For some of the the bigger jobs, help your neighbours or may be they can help you. Maybe you received a pressure washer for Christmas, think about letting your neighbour borrow it, that way you both can finish up early and start the fun

How to spring clean a barbecue from Cottage Life

How to spring clean a barbecue

It greets you the same way it did last year and the one before that, a greasy and corroded indictment of your procrastinatory maintenance skills huddled on your deck. It is your gas barbecue, and you’ve been meaning to “tune it up” since your last batch of sooty lamb chops. Now’s the time, before the cocktails and fat fires of summer are in full swing.

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If you maintain your barbecue, it will last much longer.