Lawn and Garden Reviews

The most important detractor is that it is coated with a thick, slippery finish. The finish is cracking off at the top end of the handle making it jagged and uncomfortable for the bare hands. Why am I using bare hands you ask? Because the finish is so slippery that using gloves is almost impossible due to slippage. Once the hands get sweaty, it's all over. Finally, the handle is too long for my taste. Some might like it but I certainly don't find it to be an advantage. I reviewed the head separately, that is well made but far too light to be effective. Suggest you buy one where you can see one and get a shorter, non-finished handle.

I ordered this product and it arrived with missing pieces and (mispacked, I think?) with the incorrect pieces. I was unable to assemble it and, upon calling the manufacturer, I was either a) on hold or b) hung up on. It was almost like they had no one manning their phones (I called during business hours.) I would not recommend ordering this product and I would think twice before ordering from this vendor.

The handle fell apart after a very short period of time. Perhaps I just got a defective one. *shrug*

This looks nothing like the picture. It does glow in diff colors but it very difficult to see the colors even though fully charged. Not worth the money at all. The floating color changing ball is much better get that one.

I don't have a review. I was thinking of buying one but it doesn't say how big it is.I have a feeling it's very tiny.

I bought this product at Lowe's at a discount with the actual blower tube missing. Since it is just a piece of plastic my thinking was how much can the tube be for a $200 blower since the whole motor and blower unit itself was intact. The price quoted by Husqvarna dealers was $130 - $150 +!!! Husqvarna Customer No Support was a waste of time. They just say (after a 4 day wait) that the dealer can charge whatever they want and I can only get the parts from the dealer. This may be a decent product - I don't really know since I have not gotten to use it. But keep in mind that if it breaks, even with a small problem, the price of parts alone will exceed what the blower is worth.

These are pretty garden lights. BUT break easily. The metal rod breaks off from the plastic stem of fixture stake. This pastic fixture stake, once in the ground, is supposed to support the metal light fixture. There is no way to repair it.

Was this product 110 volt, or 24 volt powered? Do I plug it in, or is it solar powered? How long is the cable? Do I need an extention cord? Can the head be rotated to a vertical position? Why would I order this product without being able to answer these questions?

I bought this shed around the first of May 2005 and completed it on July 20th 2005. First of all it's not an easy shed to assemble especially if you order the roof strengthening kit as I did for the heavy snows we get here in northern Minnesota. The added beams of the strengthening kit make it almost impossible to fasten the roof panels to the beams as the added beams block the bolts making attaching the nuts to the bolts impossible. I solved the problem by drilling additional holes in better locations.
The real frustrating part if this kit, however, is the leaking roof. This is especially true on the two lower ridges of the barn style roof. The ridges of the roof panels separate when bent over the beams making a quarter inch gap which you are suppose to cover with tape. The roof leaked like a sieve so I removed the ridge covers, carefully retaped and caulked the gaps for good measure. They still leaked. Next I went over the gaps with a thick slather of silicone bathtub caulk and this seemed to have solved the problem. But the next thunderstorm proved me wrong as the leaks were still there. It looked like the top ridge was leaking and because there was no way I could re-tape or caulk the top ridge without dismantling the entire shed, I cut pieces from plastic gutter guard and slid it them under the top ridge on both sides. This was the one successful thing I did and it appears to have stopped any leaks on the top ridge. Yet today after a heavy rain the roof still leaks. I am going to re-caulk around the tops of the lower ridges where it still could be leaking but I am not confident it will work. As a final solution I'll cover the roof with a tarp. Believe me, don't buy this shed. Get a good wood one instead.

The thermometer and timer appear to work fine, but the range of the transmitter limits the received to about 10 feet. That makes the remote feature almost useless. First, I tried the batteries that come with the device; then I changed them for fresh new cells, suspecting the batteries were weak, but that didn't improve the transmission range. I gave the unit one star as a remote monitor. It would deserve four or five stars if it were really useable as a remote monitor.

I have been looking for a good popcorn maker for some time, and when I saw this one, my eyes widened. It looked nice and it was only $30 so I did not think twice about getting it. However, after using it according to the instructions, I was disappointed for several reasons.

When popping, the kernels flew everywhere, despite using a large bowl. Even though I measured 100 grams of popcorn kernels, as recommended in the manual, more than 50% of the kernels remained unpopped and wasted when the batch was made.

The machine looks nice, but it is an absolute piece of junk.