Simple Home Repairs

It wouldn't be a self-imposed home improvement month without doing a few basic improvements. By basic home improvements, I'm talking about the kind of repairs that are so simple, you can only but ask yourself, why had I never bothered to do this before? It's amazing how a handful of little things like the three outlined can drastically improve the general quality of life.

Step 1 Change Light Bulbs

There is probably some sort of bad joke that could be made here about changing light bulbs, but I will spare us all the indignity.

It's good to change light bulbs and not spend your days living in darkness.

Two key things to know about changing light bulbs.

1) Check the dead lightbulb to see what the wattage and style is.
2) Always toggle off the power switch when unscrewing or screwing in a light bulb.

I think you can figure out the rest.

Comments

[Hades di Angelo]

why would we be glad

[bumpus]

You should add how to change a broken light-bulb.

[PKM]

One step to figure out what kind of bulb emits broken light and one step to cover what to change it into.

_{This pedantry brought to you in association with XKCD}

[Goodhart]

and make sure you don't do it like it was done on Home Improvements LOL

[jongscx]

Use a cut potato to unscrew a broken bulb... no, you can't eat it afterwords...:-p

[Goodhart]

Yeah, that is what he did on the show Home Improvements (comedy tv show), but he forgot to UNPLUG the lamp first.......man did the fire fly :-)

[DIY Dave]

It is not safe to have outlets that are painted over. You should replace the outlet in step 2 and add a step on how you did it.

[Yerboogieman]

What about having layers of grease and fat on it? The jackpot store down the street has that.

[Runeshai]

Why is it dangerous to have an outlet that's been painted over?

[Yerboogieman]

What about Things to keep you smart? Like practicing Calculus. Or using proper grammar even online?