Most homes in the west has a fireplace which is beneficial during winter season but unfortunately as times passed by many fireplaces served only as a decor.  Traditional wood burning fireplaces are inefficient source of heat if not properly supervised and can be fire hazard too that’s why electric fireplaces was developed and sold in the market.

Electric fireplace has a lot of things to offer, easy to install and very economical. They are also safer and cleaner than wood and gas fireplaces.  They are very light and portable, you can carry and install them in any place inside your home.

The fruit flies are making me sick not literally, I felt so pissed off with them flying around our apartment. I think they are coming from the garbage bag in our balcony which we cannot throw because it is not yet full and it is a waste of money. Garbage bags are not free here and you can’t use any big bags just to throw your garbage, so we are planning to buy the small bags again so we can throw it immediately.

Aside from the flies, the other thing I hate during summer is stench coming from the drainage, when you went out you can smell the stench coming from the drainage I think  it smell because of the warm weather and it is evaporating.

Our landlord’s air conditioner is so noisy. It sounds like a boat engine, we have been hearing it all day.  As what I have read online if the air conditioner is loud the unit maybe already old but as the way our landlord’s air conditioner look like it is new. So probably the problem is the  condenser I wonder why they didn’t call a handy man to fix it, they just brought it down from the third floor so they can’t hear it.

Dunno if they open and clean the unit because it might be dirty that’s why it is producing weird sound and if not maybe it has a bad compressor.  Well with this case if the unit is already damage they should buy new one because I think it would be a lot cheaper.

There are times you thought that outdoor pollution is very unhealthy to breath, you should know that indoor pollution is also a serious problem that can also cause allergies, asthma attack and hay fever especially to small children.  For you to have a safe and clean air at home you should consider using air purifier to purify the air you breath indoor.

Air purifiers eliminate the toxic chemicals, allergens and other other dangerous pollutant inside your home.  Mold and dust mites are in every corner of your home this organic pollutants can cause hay fever, while pollen can trigger allergies like  sinusitis, there are also many borne bacterias that should not be inside your home.

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Smoke from vehicle or cigarettes can also cause allergies as well as fragrances, pesticides, solvents, and cleaning agents so air purifier is really a must for you to have a healthy air especially if you have asthma problem. This can help you to avoid frequent attack and allergies.

Air purifier is very useful to improve the quality of  indoor air and make it more fit for breathing so  if you are looking for the perfect air purifier you should consider buying at Rabbit Air where you can learn more about the benefits of air purifier and choose which model is the best for you.

Well recently I fixed our clogged pipe in the kitchen and it is a bit hard to do it because the space is not enough for me to moved around. I guess we need to buy festool power tools so we can dismantled the kitchen cabinets, by doing so I can easily look around the pipe, clean it and make it secure for leaking problem.

Honestly we really don’t have any house tools in our apartment all we got are utensils for everyday used that’s why when something went wrong we need to call the landlord for help which is sometimes very disturbing to do. With the present of power tools at home we don’t need to pay someone just to do simple things for us because we can do it alone.

We always passed on this narrow alley every time we went to the gym and this house is not gated yet but recently it is already gated. We can think only one reason, the owner get pissed off with the group of students making their backyard as hang-out. Yes, there are group of student is this narrow alley if they are not talking they are just sitting in the old sofa which is present around the backyard.

Yesterday when my husband arrived from work he saw four students just near the front of our door, sitting and chatting to each other. So he asked them if they live in the building and they replied no so my husband asked the girls to go home and don’t stay in front of the apartment. It seems they are out of place to hang-out dunno why they choose to hang-out in someone else house when there is park just in front of the elementary school.

Having a gate in your house is really important especially in security purposes, you can avoid thief and  trespassers.

My sister and I sleep in just one small bed so I am used to sleep in fetus position. Our mother had thought before of buying us a bunk bed so we can sleep comfortably and to prevent from hitting each other while asleep but it didn’t materialized due to financial constraints.

Anyway my older cousin had three kids already and two of them are boys I think they could make use   twin over full bunk beds for boys  for their room so they could sleep comfortably and without a problem. You know how little kids sometimes especially boys.  Bunk beds is not that dangerous as other mother thought to be, most of the bunk beds has secure border so even if the child move a lot when asleep he won’t fall from the bed, it has also a stair for easy access to the top of the bed.

Last night while we are busy doing something in front of computer we can heard water coming down from the top floor and then after sometime the sounds became weird and that’s where we heard a sound like  someone unplugging something.  It  only last for few minutes so we really didn’t care but my husband complaint that it stinks.  When I went to our bathroom/toilet  to pee  a surprised is waiting for me,  it stinks and the bathroom floor has chunks of grimes and etc., It seems the pipe upstairs is really plugged and they unplugged it but because the pipes are connected the residue went out from the pipe below the bathroom sink. I have no choice but to clean the bathroom at late at night.

If there’s another thing I don’t like during summer it is flies.  Not the type of flies that you can saw in the garbage can they are more of fruit flies. They can come in inside our apartment because our windows are partially opened  for air to come and to avoid us on using air conditioner and paying higher electricity bills.

We had a fly paper but it seems the flies are pretty smart so the last time there’s a lot of fly I used a white plastic plate and wipe it with oil and I catch the flies with it  but when we felt so tired doing it every night where they freely roam around we decided to closed our windows and run our air conditioner.

Anyway fruit flies are commonly found in fruit and they are attracted to organic and sugary materials. They are capable of breeding in trash bins, spills of soda or alcohol and even in decaying meat.  So I guess I should regularly wipe our kitchen counters and throw the trash can once it is full to prevent this fruit fly infestations.

These past few days our kitchen sink is not working properly. The water is draining slowly, so today I fixed it by unscrewing the main pipe in the sink I cleaned the grime but when I run the water nothing is change the water is still backing up in the sink so I went further down the main drain below and  untie the the plastic on it. I tried to move the sink pipe side by side thinking it is just moved to a wrong position but it is not.

I have thought of cleaning the other pipe in the side of the sink but thinking it is not that important I didn’t do so but when my husband told me to try it I did, and I found a lot of grime on it. So cleaned it thoroughly using brush and bleach which I used in cleaning our bathroom. When I run the water, the drain works fine it seems it is really the main problem. Job well done today!