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My girlfriend and I like to do little projects to our house when we have free time. What started as her saying she wanted to change the color of the kitchen, ended up with me sanding down the texturing on the walls, painting the walls and cabinets, adding under cabinet lighting, and putting new hardware on the cabinets. Now that this is done, our countertop looks out of place. I think I will be ordering new ones, along with a new sink and faucet in the next week.
Sorry for the order of pictures. I'm on mobile and haven't used Imgur much. http://ift.tt/23CoSP5
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First I'd like to state I'm not a native speaker so I'm struggling to find the technical names, excuse me for the errors :/
I've been hanging some new furniture but I'm having real trouble with one of the clamps, the dowel keeps falling after some time or just rolls when tightening the screw into it, I think the problem might be in the plaster, that it breaks due to the pressure the screw makes. I've already hanged another, heavier furniture with the same dowels in the same wall and I had no problem but now I'm afraid it could fall down suddenly at some time. I've tried also using chemical anchor but it also failed. I don't know what else to do to keep it from falling... any pro ideas out there?
Thanks in advance.
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Furniture: http://ift.tt/1Vz7k0i
So my question is a bit of an odd one. My office that I renovated myself has two layers of 5/8" drywall with green glue for soundproofing.
My issue is attaching any kind of shelving material is going to be difficult because finding the studs will be hard.
I know toggle bolts are the ideal solution if you can't find studs, but I don't really want to drill a hole big enough for the butterfly to go through, it will kind of ruin the whole sound proof wall thing.
I'm thinking of gluing some 1x2s horizontally with liquid nails and just nailing the shelves to that. My question is will this be strong enough to hold say some books etc?
I've used liquid nails on trim before and I know it's fairly strong and the substrate you bind to (usually the wood) will fail before the glue. I have a feeling that the glue might just pull a layer of drywall off if too much weight is put on the shelves.
so the bathroom project from hell is reaching an end but one more shower wall and little 2" wide wall at the outside corner to go. bull nose and tile edges are 6 1/2",13" and 19", trying to figure out if I should use the same size on both walls and line the grout up or stagger them.
Hey everyone, I'm looking for ideas on how to close this room off. http://ift.tt/20dCXTY
It's going to be a guest room, so privacy is important. Was thinking of adding shutters for the pass through but I'm concerned about light coming through.
I'm open to any ideas. What do you guys think the best way to close the room off would be?
As the title says, I bought some wooden handled knives as a Christmas gift for a family member, then in a moment of stupidity stuck one of them through the dish washer.
It's stripped the finish and made it quite rough, so I'm going to smooth it back with some 240 grit paper and put... something on it.
What can I put on it that's food safe? I've got a bottle of Danish Oil, will that be ok?
Hi, So i'm making electric kiln and i use this as my guide and several other YT videos. Size of space in kiln is W 200mmxH 200mmxL 400mm. For heating i am using a special heating lamps that are used in plastic blowing machines rated at 400VAC 2500W. I meassured the current and it gives me 12Amps on 380VAC (so 4560W) with two lights on. So the problem is i use Ytong ZP10 insulating bricks and it heats up to 500°C in under 2 minutes. As i need temperature 1100°C i left it fol half hour and it heated only to 900°C and it gave away a lot of steam from bricks(they had them outside the store). Question is why is taking so long and why i dont reach the temperature in that period of time?
Thank you for your help!
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My Girlfriend really hates it, when there is any scent of garlic or onions left on the cuttingboard which she uses to cut her fruits for breakfast. So my idea is to buy her a cuttingboard and woodburn something on it to make sure noone uses it to cut anything but fruits on this board. My questions are, what kind of wood do you recommend, and how do I need to "finish" the board to "seal" it and make the woodburning last?
When I descale my kettle with hot water and vinegar, the obvious limescale stuff comes right off. But the heating element has this layer of copper-coloured stuff that doesn't come off. What is it and how can I remove it?
I saw a while back that a company had begun working on a "long distance relationship pillow." In a nut shell, when one person would hug a pillow another pillow would remotely light up so that when they both lit up it would be like the couple was together and cuddling. Unfortunately the company ended up developing the product to go in a different direction. This concept is perfect for us though. I've put a lot of thought into it, but this is my first diy project and I'm lost. I'll I know is that I'd need some sort of battery powered light that can safely be operated inside a pillow for long intervals, and a way of turning on the light remotely (there has to be an app that allows me to do this through an Internet connection but I can't find it). In truth turning on the light remotely by hugging a pillow seems like it would be either out of my abilities or out of my price range so I'd be willing to settle for turning on the light via a mobile app of some sort just before hugging the pillow rather than the preferred option of hugging a pillow to remotely turn on my partners pillow. I know that's not much but that's all I have, I'm lost but this is really important to me. It goes without saying that your help would mean a great deal to both myself and my wife. Also this would prove a good project for other couples undergoing similar circumstances. Thank you!
