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Condo Smarts: Shared costs are why many choose to live in strata

Condo Smarts: Shared costs are why many choose to live in strata

Dear Tony: Our strata has a bylaw that says owners are responsible for the maintenance of doors and windows on the exterior of their strata lots. Our building is 25 years old and we are a strata of 18 units.
Reena Nerbas: Surface scratches on laminate floor can be covered up

Reena Nerbas: Surface scratches on laminate floor can be covered up

Dear Reena: My light-coloured laminate flooring has a lot of surface scratches, in a high-traffic area.
Debbie Travis: Put best photos from your phone on the wall

Debbie Travis: Put best photos from your phone on the wall

Dear Debbie: I am determined to print a few of the hundreds of photos I have taken with my phone so that I can make a gallery and enjoy them.
Sooke Secret Garden tour offers pass to gardens

Sooke Secret Garden tour offers pass to gardens

GARDENS GALORE What : Sooke Secret Garden tour When : June 3, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
House Beautiful: A waterfront retreat in Sooke

House Beautiful: A waterfront retreat in Sooke

Homeowner turned Billings Spit property into a secluded garden paradise along the Sooke Basin
Condo Smarts: ‘Bargain’ management fees need a closer look

Condo Smarts: ‘Bargain’ management fees need a closer look

Dear Tony: At our annual general meeting in February, an issue was raised about the amount of interest our strata earned on our contingency fund this year.
Helen Chesnut: Rhubarb plant next to compost heap was a 30-year success

Helen Chesnut: Rhubarb plant next to compost heap was a 30-year success

Dear Helen : Can you clarify for me the planting times, growth pattern, and harvesting period of rhubarb? For how many years do the plants stay productive? A friend has a 30-year old plant that produced well all that time in a location next to a work
House Beautiful: Potter moulds French-country retreat in Strawberry Vale

House Beautiful: Potter moulds French-country retreat in Strawberry Vale

With unique glazes, flowing sculptural forms and colours that evoke the ocean, forest and desert, Meira Mathison makes her artistic statement in clay.
Reena Nerbas: Soap and pumice can remove stains from toilet bowls

Reena Nerbas: Soap and pumice can remove stains from toilet bowls

Dear Reena: How do I remove stains out of toilet bowls? Bells Make your toilet bowl sparkle by pouring a little shampoo or dish soap onto a pumice stone and gently rubbing the inside of the toilet bowl to remove stains.
Debbie Travis: Florist has tips for holding royal wedding party

Debbie Travis: Florist has tips for holding royal wedding party

For many of us, the highly anticipated royal wedding for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is an exciting, historic occasion that we look forward to reading about. We know it’s going to be quite the event.