While many of us are accustomed to thinking of leather as a delicate item when it comes to cleaning, in reality you can clean leather with household products without damaging the finish or shortening its lifespan.
Keep your leather sofas plush and clean. Whether you want to clean a leather sofa, leather boots or jacket, items on your bathroom countertop or in your kitchen cupboard can help you keep your leather pieces conditioned, clean and supple.
The invention of the pressure washer has saved many a homeowner from the difficult task of hand-scraping paint off siding. But if your home is sided in traditional cedar shingles, you're stuck doing it the old-fashioned way.
Remove Paint From Cedar Shingles Cedar is a soft wood, and the force of a power washer, while it will take the paint off easily enough, will also very likely damage the wood and drive moisture deep into it, causing your future paint job to peel off later.
The Rotozip is a rotary action cutting tool that works like a combination between a router and a jigsaw. Designed to cut in areas that are not accessible by other tools, such as between ceramic tiles or in the center of a piece of drywall, the Rotozip is a handy cutting tool in certain situations. Originally designed for drywall use to replace the awkward and slow hand saws, the Rotozip has evolved to cut all types of materials from grout removal to flooring applications.
Slate is a natural stone product used in multiple areas in and around the home. Because the surface of slate is frequently cleft, two different sealers may be applied to the face of the stone. The first sealer will not affect the look of the stone, but will help to protect it. The second sealer will darken and enhance the color of the stone.
If the second sealer has been applied in error and you wish to remove it, or if either sealer has gotten on a nearby surface, you can use one of two methods to remove it, depending on how long it has been there.
Metal roofing is held down more securely by screws than by nails, because screws have threads that dig into the wood underneath the metal roofing and give resistance to any forces that pull up on the roofing.
Metal roofs can be slippery--use extra caution when repairing them. Things You Will Need + Drill or screw gun with clutch Roofing screws with rubber gaskets Tape measure Whether you are screwing down an existing metal roof from which old nails have worked loose, or a new metal roof that is being screwed down for the first time, the process is the same.
Trane XR12 air conditioners and heaters are high-efficiency air conditioner or heater units that come in four models with seven specification settings per model. These units can be installed in homes or commercial business. Each of the XR12 models come with a five-year warranty from the Trane company.
While still sold by dealers, the XR12 is no longer available on the Trane website.
Models The Trane XR12 comes in two models in the air conditioning division — the R22 refrigerant and the R410-A refrigerant.
Clothes dryers are designed with comfort and convenience in mind, quietly spinning clothes dry in a heated chamber. Still, like many electronic appliances, clothes dryers can malfunction and even lose their ability to spin silently. What results is a cacophony of squeaks, squeals, bangs and thumps.
Fortunately, this problem is repairable by several possible solutions.
Start Up A dryer that is newly bought but squeaks while drying clothes may simply be “breaking in” its parts.
To dry clothing properly, a large amount of heat must be added to the chamber of a clothes dryer. To produce enough heat, the heating elements of an electric dryer must use thousands of watts of electrical power. Due to its power requirements, an electric dryer must be connected to the electrical service by wire that is thicker in diameter -- or larger in gauge -- than most electrical circuits in a typical household.
Table of Contents Connection to Outlets Proper Use Cord Safety Iron and Water Children's Safety Automatic Safety Features Advancements in Safety Ironing your clothing with an electric iron can be a bit risky if you aren't careful. Take a few precautions to avoid accidental burns from an iron.
Installing a sidewalk drainage system helps prevent subsurface water from destabilizing the foundation or causing a sidewalk to crack. Standing water can also cause surfaces to become slick and dangerous.
A sidewalk drainage system increase the longevity and safety of a sidewalk. Installing a drainage system along your sidewalk will improve the longevity of your sidewalk and make the surface safe for people to walk on.
Things You Will Need + Chalk Wooden stakes and string Tape measure Concrete saw Shovel Level Gravel Perforated drainage pipe Connectors T connectors Grid drains Landscape fabric Sand Topsoil Grass seed Pour water onto the sidewalk and note where water puddles.