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A lot of people don't think about how important their sump pumps are. But if it does fail and the water table is high around your house, obviously that sump pit is going to overflow and run into your basement.

No house exists in a vacuum. External factors affect them, whether it's the climate or time.

When people build a house, they typically dig a hole for the foundation, and then put the down footings, weeping tile and a stone layer around the outside for drainage. Then they'll backfill around the house.

Make sure you have a dehumidifier if your house is too humid in the summer, or a humidifier if it's too dry in the winter.

You need to understand what's padding your walls, especially if you live in an older home and renovating the attic is on your spring to-do list. Not only is it key to keeping your house warm in the winter and cool in the summer, it'll prevent mould from growing and can drastically reduce your energy bills.

Avoiding cold floors above a garage is relatively simple when the house is built, insulated and heated properly. It's a little more complicated and costly after the fact.

As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat, and then sometimes go to my friend's house and eat again. I could gain five pounds in a day. In a week, there wouldn't be a scale to weigh me.

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

My family moved to York, Pa., when I was eight. As a kid I spent virtually all of my free time at Memorial Park, which was just down the street from my house on Springdale Avenue in our blue-collar neighborhood.

I love... Eskimo Joe's. I have tons of Eskimo Joe's clothes and cups in my house, 'cause I love Eskimo Joe's.

My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.

We always have veggies, nuts, spreads, and fruits laying around the house.

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

My house is very traditional. And I love 'shabby chic.' It's a very homey-cosy vibe. We spend a lot of time in the kitchen, actually; maybe my kids will be doing their homework or that kind of thing when they get home from school. I love my kitchen.

At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.

The White House wants us talking about racism and the justice system because they use it as a springboard to scare Americans about looting, aided by Fox News running episodes of violence on an incessant loop, that their hearts and minds won't be able to look past the fear to see injustice.

On a mild day in January 2011, Republicans in the House voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It was the first of more than 80 attempts to dismantle the landmark law.

I would never leave the house before choosing an outfit and doing my hair - the results may vary, but I cannot do otherwise.

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.

One of the principles of White House coverage is that a wide variety of news outlets should be represented at briefings and press conferences.