Tearing down a shed is called demolition work. If you're planning on keeping any of the building materials that the shed is made of or even if you're not, tear the shed down in phases. A shed is built from the ground up and torn down from the roof down.
A hardhat and a sledgehammer go hand-in-hand with demolition work. Some sheds are free-standing and others have fixed foundations such as cement floors or footing.
Bees sometimes seek hollow cavities in a building as a sheltered location to raise their brood and store food. Any open cavity is a welcome mat to swarming bees: holes in exterior siding, roof eaves, gaps above room additions or between chimneys and walls.
Bees are social insects and will sting if provoked. Light fixtures with bees indicate that the bees are nesting in a wall or ceiling cavity and are using the fixture as an entrance and exit.
Steel Craft manufactures and markets several lines of residential, commercial and industrial garage doors. The company is headquartered in Alberta, Canada. Steel Craft garage door openers feature keyless entry systems. You can reset this keyless entry system and reprogram your garage door motor unit to work with a new garage door opener remote control or other keyless entry device.
Press and hold the red "Learn" button on the motor unit of the Steel Craft garage door opener for approximately six seconds to erase all previous codes and reset the unit.
While most ceiling fans come pre-packaged with a down rod, it doesn't necessarily mean that the down rod is sized right for your room. In some cases, proper installation of the ceiling fan may demand a longer or shorter down rod.
The problem arises when the ceiling fan is already installed and you're faced with having to change the down rod so your ceiling fan works as well as it's supposed to.
When you build a retaining wall, offset the blocks to give the wall more stability. This means to position a full block directly over the space where two blocks meet. When you reach the retaining wall's ends, blocks must be cut in half so they do not extend past the wall's end.
Use a hammer and chisel to break a retaining wall block down the center. The best tools to use for this project are a simple hammer and chisel.
Properly working a side delivery hay rake accomplishes two important tasks. Side rakes help situate cut hay into rows for easier baling. They also fluff up the hay to help it dry quicker. The quicker the hay dries, the quicker farmers can bale it and store it for animal consumption. Letting hay sit on the ground cut too long runs the risk of rain falling on it or wind blowing it away.
You can clean all of the different types of filters on a Bissell PowerForce Bagless vacuum using warm water and a mild soap. Not only will a Bissell PowerForce Bagless vaccum keep all types of flooring -- the model comes with five surface height settings -- clean and free of debris, but it's easy and convenient to maintain as well. Rather than having to remove and dispose of a vacuum bag full of dust and other types of grime, you simply empty this vacuum model's dirt container.
How to Winterize a Mobile Home. If you're living in a mobile home and facing your first winter, you may not be aware how difficult it can be to keep a mobile home warm.
Taking the proper steps to winterize your mobile home cannot only help keep you warm, but keep your heating bills down and also ensure that you safeguard your home against severely cold weather.
Tip Remove snow from around the skirt of the mobile home to allow for ventilation to the furnace.
The design of carriage bolts allows you to install the fastener without a helping hand. Below the half-round head of a carriage bolt sits a squared shoulder. When you drill a hole through material sized for the bolt, the head of the bolt will remain in place while you tighten the fastener onto the material.
Carriage bolts eliminate the need for two wrenches to tighten a connection. Using a hole too large for the bolt will result in the bolt head spinning in the material.
Viewed from profile, drywall J-bead resembles a J-shaped channel; two flat sides -- one short and one long -- surround the bead's bottom edge.
Drywall bead, such as J-bead and corner bead, covers the raw edges and corners of drywall. Builders use J-bead to cap the end of drywall sheets where the sheets butt against dissimilar building materials, such as metal or masonry, or where the drywall's edge remains exposed, such as surrounding an attic access panel.