I am changing the subject a little. Before you going and spend $350 or so on a BP, have your wife go and try put one on first. Make sure BP is what she want. I found bp hard to put on, it is like 20lb back pack with a big tail!!! If you have a big area to blow, bp is the way to go because after struggle to put it on, it is very comfortable to work for hour at a time. If you only doing a few minutes, then she better try and see whether that's the way to go. I have both. I am a gear head!!! I insist on buying a big bp. Now I end up using the bp during leaf season and put in storage mode for the rest of the year. All the other time, I still use my hand held. bp is not the easiest to put onto the back even for a man. And it is so easy to pull the hand held to do a 10 minutes job. If your hand held is still working, consider getting another hand held and play dual pistol!!!! Don't laugh!!! So many times I have to switch hands with the hand held because, it blows left if you hold with your right hand, blow right if you hold with the left. I really wish I have two, one in each hand to blow a wide, straight path!!! Down side is your hands can get really tired if you have to blow over 10 minutes. Hand held are stronger if it is the same size engine. Your hand held must be about 300cfm at the tube. All you need is another good one like Echo PB251 or the Husqvarna 125, you get over 600 cfm combined. That is as strong as a big bp, much stronger than the BR380/420 which is only about 400cfm. Both hand held are about $160 or so. Again, go put one on her back and see how she feel, that is the most important thing bar none. Happy wife make a happy husband!!!

I just signed it. So far I am the third. I think a lot of these sellers just harvest a ton of seeds from ANY pepper plant in the fall and then find out what the hot varieties are that winter/spring and sell them as that variety. At $5.00 for a pack of a dozen seeds, I can make a lot of money in a couple months or longer before the scam is detected. For instance, say I grow a bunch of Hot Hungarian Wax Peppers this year. They are good producers and throw out a lot of seeds. I could get hundreds of seeds off each plant. Say I collect 5000 HHW seeds. Then I divide them up into lots of say 20. that is one hundred lots. I sell them on Ebay as Ghost Pepper seeds and Trinidad Scorpion Butch T seeds and whatever else seems to be the flavor of the day. I charge $5 for each lot of 20 seeds and and I just made over $1000 bucks. Not a bad return on investment. Now, I dont know if this seller is legit or not but if he is selling common pepper seeds instead of TS Butch T seeds, he is going to scam a whole lot of people. He has already sold 380 lots. An no one will know one way or the other for months. In the mean time, he keeps selling. Bruce

Hudson Reed is a brand that gets mixed reviews here... I've used three HR fixtures so far, and been very pleased with all three. Of course, since my husband is a professional remodeler, the 'risk' to me is much lower that it would be to most folks. Most people agree that: - HR Products look really good, with thick chrome plating. - The pieces are heavy and appear well-made. - The prices are so low, they're probably made in China. (But many other higher-priced brands are also made in China.) - The installer HAS TO follow the HR directions, not 'standard' practice, and that the HR directions are bad. Plan for extra time to install, and INSIST that your plumber read and understand all directions before beginning. I've heard mixed reviews about customer service, but my personal experiences were 100% top-notch. I haven't heard this said here before, but it bears notice. The HR products use metric sizes, so finding replacement parts (I needed a screw) can be difficult.

So here's the completed project with the Centor Blinds. Check out the install video at their website and realize that the casing that houses the blind assembly sticks out from the door unit a good 4-6" and looks shady onside- wish I'd taken a photo of that before having the left and right sheetrock furred out to make the screen flush with the interior walls. The mechanism slides well, but once in awhile makes a large "clunk" about midway that seems like it isn't lined-up straight on the reel-out of the screen side. I emailed Centor for care instructions, as I have a Phantom Screen on another french door that I silicone regularly, and they never replied. The only care instructions I could find were to keep the tracks clean. You see where the blind meets the screen, and there is a full-length magnetic pliable stip attached to make the connection between the two. It is so magnetic (most likely due to surface area of magnetic material, that t it is a STRONG two-handed separation to open the gap. I'm going to run some quality Scotch 32+ electrical tape at intervals to see if I can make separation more manageable. We have "lake" or "rice" flies that hatch at different intervals of the summer, and if they are on your screen or blind, they get crushed-into the material, and need to be removed via tooth-brush, etc. I'd do it again, but I'd check other brands to see if there is a comparable option that is US instead of Overseas-based.