Saunas are wonderful additions to your home or deck. If you are building your sauna yourself, you select the right type of wood and finish it properly so your sauna is safe. Heartwood from redwood and cedar trees is the best type of wood for a sauna. When finishing your sauna, you may want to treat high-contact areas that will be touched frequently.
Determine the woodwork you will want to treat.
No matter how careful or professional you are when painting, it's inevitable: you're going to get paint on something you didn't intend to. If you get paint on a favorite polar fleece sweatshirt or blanket, chances are you can clean it off even after it has dried using materials you have in your house already.
If not, there are some products available that can remove dried paint from fabric quite well.
Whether you call it a shotgun room, a cracker box or a bowling alley, space planning for a long, narrow room can be a challenge, especially if you want to use it for more than one purpose. If the room has inadequate light, the task becomes even more difficult because you don't want your dividers to block the natural light. Sketch out the room on grid paper and experiment with possible floor plans before investing your time or money in dividers that won't may not work for your room.
Whether a drain is installed in a basement floor, sink, tub or shower, it has to be at the lowest point to be effective. To properly locate a shower drain, a stall manufacturer or tiler molds the base so that it has a continuous downward slope from the edges toward the drain. This doesn't mean the drain has to be in the center, however, and offset drains are common in prefabricated and custom stalls alike.
Drumming is a favorite form of self-expression for many people, and for those who've dedicated their life to the instrument, there's probably nothing more welcome than a space that's dedicated totally to drumming.
Things You Will Need + Paint Paint supplies Building materials Egg crate foam Shelves Storage cubbies CD covers Large glass covered frame Drumming posters and photos Old records in frames Drum-themed novelty clock Drum-related accessories for the desk Drums from around the world Decorating a room that would please a drummer is a mix of practical planning with lots of creative expression thrown in.
If you have located a hole in your down comforter, you need to repair it right away. Allowing a hole to remain in a down comforter may lead to feathers flying out or insects getting in. Use fabric glue used to repair seams to patch small holes. Patch large holes with fabric glue and a swatch of fabric.
Things You Will Need + Fabric glue Fabric Scissors Iron-on tape Iron Squeeze fabric glue around the edges of a small hole and bring the sides together.
The Nespresso C100 is a popular make of domestic espresso machine---popular, that is, until it stops functioning just when you're ready for a java shot. Before you contact Nespresso Club, try some simple troubleshooting. You may be able to solve the problem yourself.
Light Indicator Fails to Illuminate The perfect cup of espresso will still be on the menu if you can successfully troubleshoot your Nespresso C100. Check to ensure your Nespresso C100's plug is securely in the wall socket.
Having a clean chest freezer is both sanitary and appetizing--nobody wants to eat food that comes out of a dirty freezer. The absolute best time to clean a chest freezer is when food stocks are low, because this will keep the amount of bending and reaching you have to do to empty it out as low as possible.
Things You Will Need + Cooler and ice or blankets Gloves Mild soap Old toothbrush Remember that anything that comes out of the freezer will have to be either stored in another freezer, a refrigerator, or somehow insulated from thawing until the defrost and cleaning process is completed.
Repairing glass in a thermopane window is different than repairing single-glaze windows. A thermopane window is made of insulated units that typically have two panes of glass.
Broken thermopane glass Instead of the puttylike glazing compound used with a single-pane window, a thermopane window uses a sealing component and a mechanical glazing stop, or glazing bead.
Two Reasons for Repair A thermopane window is defined by the insulated glass unit.
Removing ink stains from walls isn’t easy. Use the wrong cleanser and you risk spreading thinned ink even further or removing a layer of paint along with the ink. Though it may be time-consuming, you can remove ink with rubbing alcohol.
Remove ink from your painted walls using rubbing alcohol and cotton swabs. Careful blotting with the right materials pulls the ink from the wall bit by bit, leaving the surface clean with no sign of the ink having been there.