The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) sets regulations for buildings and spaces, including classrooms, offices, hotels and shops used by the public so that they are accessible to the disabled. While requirements vary according to the business or space, thorough contractors adhere to ADA regulations for items such as drawer pulls no matter what they are building or its intended purpose. Height reach Drawer pulls must be within certain height and reach ranges to comply with ADA rules.

Table of Contents Benefits Warning Cleaning Stains Water Heat Silestone is just one of many engineered surfaces of natural quartz bonded with resins. Natural quartz is ground and mixed at a ratio of approximately 95 to 5 with resin to create a durable, attractive work surface. Silestone countertops start with raw granite.

A brick patio enhances the exterior of the home as well as provides a place to enjoy the outdoors and grill outside. The most important part of the installation is preparing an even base for the bricks to lay on, which greatly extends their life. If you have an uneven area where you want the patio, a little excavation is all you need to transform it into a flat, sturdy patio base.

For applications where there is insufficient room to mount an electrical receptacle, or outlet, in the standard vertical position, you can rotate the receptacle 90 degrees and mount it sideways. A common example of mounting an electrical receptacle sideways would be over a kitchen sink, between the counter backsplash and a window. Through some electricians will debate the orientation of the receptacle and the position of its grounds, there is no functional difference.

Before you can begin a cooking cycle on your Frigidaire microwave, the door must be completely shut. In fact, if the door latch isn't snapped shut, the microwave won't function at all. One way a microwave door can cease to function properly is if the hinges are loose or damaged. A microwave with a functional door hinge Tightening the hinges on your microwave door is a task you can perform yourself in a matter of minutes.

Maybe an overflowing bathtub or an exploding pot of spaghetti sauce has damaged some ceiling tiles beyond repair. You'll find them easy to replace, especially if they're the suspended type. Things You Will Need + 4d Finishing Nails Measuring Tape Replacement Ceiling Tile(s) Nail Set Utility Knife With New Blade Goggles Acrylic Caulk Caulking Gun Hammer Nail Puller Or Pliers Panel Adhesive Straightedge Putty knife, paint scraper or old chisel Warning Some ceiling tiles manufactured prior to mid-1970 contain asbestos.

The Mitutoyo F125E is a digital dial gauge. This gauge gives accurate measurements of the heights of objects. To use this digital gauge, you must first learn how to unlock it. You have to unlock it two ways -- manually and digitally. Unlocking the Mitutoyo will allow you to use the gauge and have it give you accurate readings. This can also prevent your measurements from falling within a small range of error, maybe as low as .

Laying tile of any sort is a complicated process of fitting the tile just right so that the least number of partial tiles are used. Whole tiles are faster to install and look better to the viewer than partials. Use a table saw for your general tile-cutting needs. Unfortunately, any tiled surface is likely to require a few partials, so cutting the full tiles to fit will be necessary. A quick all-around cutting tool for tiles likely to be used by many DIYer tile installers is the table saw.

Table of Contents Breaker Fuse Wire Damage Settings Disconnection During a thunderstorm, your house might lose electricity, causing all currently running electronic devices, such as a Kenmore dishwasher, to turn off. After the power is reinstated, the dishwasher might fail to turn back on. There are a number of reasons this might happen after an outage.

Table of Contents Where did you get the idea for the Garden Home Challenge? Can you describe the Garden Home's look and layout? What were the planning process and initial phases like? What did you learn from others on the project? What other ways did you use re-purposed materials? What are the energy saving aspects of the Garden Home?