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Stay in vacation mode using these hotel style tips in your home

With vacation season in full swing, take a look around your hotel with an eye toward taking stylish inspiration home with you.

Struggling to quit sugar? You might not be sleeping enough

Levels of insomnia can influence the region of your brain that regulates food intake.

Brown or White? Cage or Cage-Free? Here’s How to Pick the Best Eggs

A poultry expert unscrambles the jargon on your egg carton

How to Order Pipe Flanges

What To Look For in Pipe Flanges

Learn how to choose the right pipe flanges for your pipeline system to ensure a leak-free operation!

Applications: Tube, Pipe & Fittings: Why Your Builder Chose Copper Flashing

Flashing is the waterproofing material installed under shingles or tiles where two roofs intersect.

Tipping Guidelines For Non-Restaurant Services

Tipping etiquette outside of restaurant can feel like a gray area. These guidelines will help.

What's the Difference Between a Restaurant Service Fee and a Tip?

Nowadays, it seems that U.S. consumers are being asked to shell out more in tips and service charges than ever before. But is there a difference between the two?

Building Furniture with Pipe and Fittings

Not so long ago, if you wanted a customized piece of indoor or outdoor furniture you most likely had to pay a craftsperson or company to make it for you. Although the option of DIY furniture...

Marijuana in restaurants: Pipe dream or soon-to-be reality?

NRN senior food editor Bret Thorn and menu trends analyst Nancy Kruse discuss the changing cannabis landscape.

Build a Plumbing Pipe Clothing Racks

This simple outline of how to build a plumbing pipe clothing racks is a do it yourself project that utilizes vertical wall space into an open air closet to hang clothing. Embrace the look by creating a closet out of nowhere by installing pipe flanges in the studs into the wall. The hard part was figuring out all the

5 Safety Tips to Follow When Using a Pipe Wrench

When installing threaded pipes, you may need to use a pipe wrench. A pipe wrench is a handheld tool that, as the name suggests, is designed for pipes. You can use it to install threaded pipes and pipe fittings. A typical pipe wrench features a pair of serrated jaws. After clamping the jaws over a pipe, you can turn it.  While pipe wrenches are relatively simple, there are some safety tips you should follow when using them.#1) Tightening or Loosening OnlyYou should only…

Is it Fitting? 4 Types of Barbed Fittings

Defeat leaks and flow restrictions with barbed fittings in your pump systems. Place these fittings into flexible tubing. The tubing relaxes behind the barb to produce a seal that will typically con…

When is a Fitting Room Not Just a Fitting Room

If there’s one place where the difference between companies around customer experience is apparent, it’s in the fitting room at clothing retailers.<br>On one si

Cyclist guide to bike fitting

Can a few hours with an expert ensure your bike won’t break you on that epic ride you’ve got coming up? We find out.

How to Sweat Copper Pipes and Fittings

If your home has copper plumbing, then you should know how to fix it if something needs repaired or if you?re running new lines to a fixture. Sweating copp

Practical Tips for Open Fittings

Open fit hearing instruments can be fit with a multitude of solutions for coupling to the ear canal. Manufacturers have different strategies for accounting for these solutions, and it may be unclea…

What is a Hearing Aid Fitting?

A hearing aid fitting is a follow-up appointment, which is used to place the new hearing aids, check the fit and show you how to use your devices.

What is Pipe Sweating? (with pictures)

Pipe sweating is a situation in which condensation forms on the outside of pipes. The term is also used to refer to the process of...

Basic Pipe Tips

The plumbing system in your home is simpler than you might think. Find straightforward information about pipes, fittings and the fundamentals of plumbing repair.