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September 2010

There are 2 blog entries for September 2010.

Removing broken wood screws

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 at 3:13pm. 7465 Views, 2 Comments.

How to Remove Broken Wood Screws

Have you ever had a screw broken off in wood?  This happened to me recently.  A carpenter had hung a new door for me.  I was happy with the work, paid him in full plus a tip and then...

Weeks later I took the door down to prime and paint it.  I noticed that FIVE screws were broken off in the wooden door.  The carpenter had taken the screw heads and put them in the door so it wouldn't be noticeable.  Bummer.  Well I didn't want to call that guy to come back and fix it, he might make matters worse.

The hard part is that the screws were broken off below the surface of the wood.  They were buried in there and and I couldn't pull them out or unscrew them.

First I tried "Screw Outs" from Sears.  Screw outs…

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Checkout the new OahuMLS.Net

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 4:27pm. 1561 Views, 1 Comments.

We made some upgrades to the OahuMLS website over the last several weeks.  The new site started up on August 24, 2010.

For long-time users of the site, you may have noted that you were prompted to create an account.  We had thousands of people with accounts under the old site template and only the more recent logins were transferred over.  If this was an inconvenience we apologize.  We also think you will be pleased with the changes.

And here are the changes:

  • Each listing indicates whether the property is fee simple or leasehold.  Need to find out what these terms mean?  Take a look at our leasehold page.
  • View is displayed (ocean, mountain, Diamond Head, coastline, garden etc).  
  • Property Frontage is displayed (sandy beach, golf…

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