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How to Sand Wood

There is quite a difference between sanding bare wood and 'rubbing down', 'cutting' or 'flatting back' between coats. Apart from where you are removing blemishes, always work from coarse to…

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How to Control Rising Damp

Rising damp is rather more of a problem: it is more difficult to diagnose and more costly to treat. It is due to the water present in the ground rising…

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How to Rivet Metal

Riveting is a method for making permanent joints. A rivet is basically a short metal rod with a head on one end. The head may be domed or countersunk. To…

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How to Replace a Wooden Window Sill

It is possible to replace a wooden window sill without removing the frame, but the quality of the job, the strength and weathertightness of the window in the long term,…

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How to Replace Taps

To replace taps, you may need: new taps of the appropriate type spanners - probably a basin spanner and a right-angled adjustable spanner plastic washers for seating the taps plumbing…

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How to Replace Sash Cords

Tools and materials Hammer Pincers Screwdriver Rule Pencil Chisel Knife A long-tailed mouse Waxed damp-proof sash cord or rot-resistant man-made fibre cord 25mm clout nails Oval brads. On a sash…

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How to Replace a Window Pane

It is possible to repair a window temporarily by using a sheet of polythene fixed to the inside of the window with adhesive tape or nailed lightly on with battens.…

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How to Install a Washing Machine or Dishwasher

Some washing machines need both hot and cold supplies; others are (or can be converted lo) cold-till only. Cold-fill only machines are clearly easier to plumb in but may be…

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How to Install a Shower

Fitting a shower is essentially no more difficult than installing any other piece of equipment it usually involves fitting taps or valves, making a branch pipe, running a new waste,…

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How to Install a New Stove or Oven

There is very little incentive to fix old stove/ovens. The cost of new electric burners, for example, is prohibitively high. You can often buy an entire new range for the…

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How to Improve Your Home with Conversions

What can you do if you have analyzed carefully your use of space and decided that you need more accommodation? You might want more space for a variety of reasons,…

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How to Install a Dishwasher

Old dishwashers often get rusted areas inside, especially on the dish racks. Or sometimes they just look old-fashioned. (The newer models are largely digital and look quite elegant in all…

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How to Increase Efficiency of Your Home’s Heating Systems

Choosing a new boiler According to a company like Ally Heating and Air Conditioning - HVAC service, if you either have an existing system that needs a heating repair or have…

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How to Furnish Your Home Ecologically

When we are concerned with furnishing our home ecologically, what are the most important considerations? Here we are concerned with furnishing in such a way as to make the very…

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How to Hang a New Door

The first job is to remove the existing door from the frame without damaging the frame or the hinge recesses do this very carefully, using small wood wedges to take…

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How to Fix Things to Walls

How you should fix things to walls depends on the type of wall you want to fix to and whether the fixing will have to take heavy loads. Ordinary screws…

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How to Get Renovation Ideas

What about Checking with Designers and Architects? It really depends on how big a project you have in mind and how thick your wallet is. A Residential Architect can give…

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How to Fix Solid Wall

Any type of screw can be used to fix things in masonry as long as a suitable wallplug is used as well. Originally, wallplugs were made only from fibrous material…

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How to Fix Plastic Laminates

covered by melamine formaldehyde. It is highly resistant to heat, scratching, wear and stains and very suitable for kitchen worktops. These days, the majority of kitchen worktops come as plastic…

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How to Fix Hollow Wall

In most modern houses, plasterboard walls and hollow hard-board doors are common fixing problems. In older houses you may come across lath-and-plastcr walls (plaster on a base of wooden strips).…

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