Pressure washing your deck is a fast and effective way to remove dirt or grime. It's also a way to strip a layer of soft fiber from the deck's wooden panels, leaving behind a fuzzy residue that can appear like carpet fibers across the length of the deck. This residue not only looks bad, but creates a surface unsuitable for any paint or finish you may wish to apply. You can rid yourself of the fuzzy residue, however, by sanding it away.
Dry-erase boards have become more common than chalkboards thanks to their ease of use and lack of mess. Using a permanent marker on a dry-erase board is something many people have unknowingly done. It is a common mistake that stains your board with marker seemingly stuck in place. Using water, the eraser or a cloth will not work.
Permanent marker on a dry-erase board can be an inconvenience. Remove the lid from a dry-erase marker.
Road salts are typically used to melt or prevent ice from building on winter roads. Some road salts are also used in warmer months as dust suppressants. In the winter, road salts work by heating when they come in contact with snow and ice, and in summer, they retain moisture in dirt surfaces to reduce dust.
Road salts are used to melt snow and ice and improve road conditions. Road maintenance crews will use one of several types of road salt.
A tile’s break strength is a numerical representation of how much weight the tile can support. Tile break strength is determined in a lab setting by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
How to Determine Break Strength of Tile Understanding what this number means will help you determine the strength of your tile and what type of use it is appropriate for. You can take this understanding one step further by also considering the class rating of your tile.
Moisture control is a specialized refrigeration feature that manufacturers incorporate into some of their refrigerator models, specifically the high-end varieties. The feature allows users to control the humidity -- or amount of moisture in the air -- within the fresh foods sections of refrigerators. Moisture-controllable sections can include the primary refrigeration space, where the shelves are, as well as drawers for fruits and vegetables, also known as "crispers."
Background If fresh foods are stored in areas with low levels of moisture in the surrounding air, they are prone to drying out and going bad.
Hunter Industries has manufactured a variety of sprinkler heads. However, it has discontinued some of its most common designs, leaving many customers without proper replacement heads for their sprinklers. One of these heads, the G-type, was phased out in the early 2000s.
Customers with these heads sometimes have no idea how to adjust this unique sprinkler head. Luckily, many of the company’s sprinkler heads are adjusted in the same way.
French doors don't always meet securely in the center, allowing drafts into your home. In driving rain, poorly fitting French doors may even let water in. When you are ready to close the gap in your French doors, install an astragal, which is an insulated molding piece that fits onto one of the doors and covers any space between them. They are designed to look as if they are a part of the door and will not detract from the look of your French doors.
A loft is an openly visible area in your home where the room at the top of the stairs is open to the rooms below. You can close off the gaping open space in a loft to provide increased privacy for a home office or bedroom.
Give your loft increased privacy with a partial wall. Choose a portable wall design with complementary hues and textures to enhance your existing decorating style and color scheme
Antique trunks are as popular today as they were when they were manufactured. No longer the luggage of choice for long trips, trunks still offer function inside the home. Although they're often little more than simple wooden boxes, trunks can add character to any room and most importantly, valuable storage.
Restored antique trunks can provide attractive home storage. One of the most common types of trunks manufactured between 1880 and 1920 had a flat top.
If you are presenting a play or film that takes place in a cave, working in the real thing may not be practical. You can instead bring the cave to you by making a fake cave wall. This wall can be attached to a temporary frame, or stapled directly to a real wall if one is available.
Make a fake cave wall. All of the materials that you need for this cave wall are available at your local hardware store.