Table of Contents Advantages and Disadvantages Heat Output Potential Problems Preparing Cedar Burning Cedar Cedar has a reputation as dangerous species to use as firewood, but if handled correctly, cedar produces a safe, easy-to-light fire.
Advantages and Disadvantages In some ways, unseasoned cedar makes a very good firewood. It is relatively lightweight, it splits easily and is easy to light, making it excellent kindling.
A prefinished floor has already been sanded and covered with multiple layers of stain before it is installed in your house. Most prefinished floors have a polyurethane coating. The only way to permanently darken such a floor is to basically start over. This entails removing the original stain, sanding the floor and applying a new, darker stain.
Step 1 Seek help at a home-improvement or flooring store to find a darker stain for your floor.
A frieze board is a decorative trim mounted over a house or building’s siding or soffit to enhance its appearance and make its overhang appear taller. The length of 1-by-6-inch lumber is typically installed between the brickwork and the eave to seal gaps, thereby preventing moisture and insects from coming through and finding their way into the attic. Ensure the ladder you are using is tall and sturdy, so you have easy and safe access to the parts of the house where you want to install frieze boards.
The interchangeable legs on IKEA's Karlstad sofa provide an easy fix for damaged legs or you can replace the standard straight birch legs with contoured aluminum legs for a sleeker, more modern look. The legs are attached via wooden dowel pegs and long metal threaded hex drive bolts. With just two simple tools and a new set of Karlstad-compatible legs, you can quickly replace the existing legs with little effort.
Sears is the exclusive retailer of Kenmore refrigerators. Many Kenmore refrigerators include a digital display and control panel that allows you to change the refrigerator's default settings. If you would prefer to change those settings back to their default, you can reset the settings on your Kenmore refrigerator so it returns to the way it operated when you first installed the refrigerator. This is a simple task you can complete in just a few minutes.
GE Appliances manufactures more than 80 cooktop models, and about 55 of them are in the GE Profile family of cooktops. If you own one of the electric smoothtop or induction models, you will operate the cooktop using electronic and lighted controls. The glowing indicators for "hot" or "heat" are a safeguard for you, since you don't see an open flame as you would on a gas-based cooktop or range.
Husqvarna manufactures a wide variety of dependable outdoor equipment. The Husqvarna 359 chainsaw continues that passion of dependability. It is a medium-duty chainsaw that can handle most cutting projects around the home and property. Starting the Husqvarna 359 chainsaw is made less difficult with the addition of a decompression valve. This valve relieves the pressure inside the cylinder requiring less effort to start the engine.
Step 1 Place the Husqvarna 359 chainsaw on the ground.
Strawberries are delicious, healthy and easy to eat anywhere because of their small size. When strawberries are accidentally spilled on your carpet, the result is a pink or light red stain on your carpet. Left unattended, strawberry stains can become permanent, so prompt and thorough removal is necessary.
The juice from strawberries creates a stain on your carpet. Removing strawberry stains does not require the use of expensive stain-removing chemicals.
When building a shed in a flood-prone area, you'll need to put it up on stilts in order to keep your belongings out of the water. You can install stilts on a standard shed, but you will have to perform some basic carpentry and masonry techniques in order to finish the job. You will also need to construct stairs in order to get in and out of the new raised shed.
Table of Contents Accessing the Water Components of a Well System A well system consists of the well itself, which is inside a casing, a jet pump -- possibly a submersible pump -- and a pressure tank. Water wells are as old as civilization -- maybe older -- but modern rural dwellers who rely on drawing groundwater for their water needs don't have to use buckets or hand pumps like their forebears.