Is there an advantage or disadvvantage of having a shingled roof
installed in the fall or the summer ? thanks .Lee
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They need to be installed in warm weather so that they can seal correctly. In
special instances a good contractor will put a roof up in colder weather if
it's an emergency kind of thing but it won't seal correctly until at least
spring. I know this for a fact because the contractor who put my
Well, I'm having some trouble getting an even thickness, I'm putting too much
in the center of the surface and not enough on the edges. I can tell this
tactilely, so i'm going to slap a couple more coats on the thing before the
examination by the sighted folks happens.
Bill Stephan
Kansas
Dale, lofts, because of their high ceilings are another place where this kind
of heat is supposed to be mor economical.
Bill Stephan
Kansas City, MO
(816)803-2469
William Stephan
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From: Dale Leavens[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10/16/06 7:21:41 PM
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I have to agree with Dale,
After talking with many people about finishes, my sighted friends always
complain about how difficult it is to get a perfect finish without brush
strokes visible. The finishes feel fine, but you can see the marks. I
find it hard to believe that finger painting a
Well, if I can't get the technique right this way, I might try a thick coat of
finish, then putting a sheet of butcher paper over it and rolling it with a
very wide roller. This is something I've never tried before, so I'm more
interested in finding out what I can and can't do than actually
Well as a blind female and should I need to have some major repairs done
which I do have some patio issues hanging over my head and I asked this list
for some info pertaining to what I needed to do to have it fixed and I
received a ton of excellent information on the subject..
I of course will
Bill,
See, you can do it. You are learning. Like most anything, there is a learning
curve and you get better as you go along
I am proud of you for getting in there and doing it. You didn't listen to the
sighted world's misconceptions and other blind people's doubts. Keep up the
good work!
People who post instructions and or information on how to do things can only
offer what is available to them during the course of their research. Now
having said that if anybody feels that this information is lacking in some form
or another then by all means find and post more detailed
Hmmm,
Don't know ware you live but here in Alabama we don't have large
enough or fierce enough roaches that would harm pets
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Sorry! Stop hitting me just could not resist!
At 10:51 AM 10/13/2006 -0400, you wrote:
Hi All,
Does any one know of a good bug spray that you can spray around
I would add to what Ralph has said that sometimes the best way to figure out
a blind way of doing something is to understand the usual way sighted people
do it, not because they are sighted but because understanding what is
required permits one to improvise.
I learned how to sweat copper pipe
Max,
I have a feeling that is a common problem for us blind folk applying finish.
We perceive the need to really get a good covering. It is one way to insure
the entire surface gets coated, to apply lots and work back and forth and so
on. It just is instinctively right.
When it comes to
so I tried to clear a kitchen double sink drain with a
plunger,it's worked in the past, and noticed a couple days later
water all over the floor!
We had a large plastic drawer under the sink in the cupboard for
cleaning stuff, and that had filled up with drain water before
spilling over so we'd
I wonder if years of harsh chemicals have damaged the tail piece of the
sink? or maybe even the gasket between the drain basket and the body of the
sink?
The thing is to discover where the water is coming from. Eyes can often see
small drips forming but once the fingers are damp they don't see
The first thing is to start with good stock. This may seem self evident but
usually us handy folk work cheap or are a little afraid of ruining quality
material. It gets better with experience but part of the DIY appeal is to go
cheap. If your wood looks good to begin with you are already much
I know from what I have learned from this list in the last few years
that a previous contractor gave it a shove with no vasaline for my
roofing job. that is why we are replacing a roof in less than 20 years.
actually only 2 out of 8 contractors this past year have suggested, as
you have on
Lee,
I agree with this statement,. Two years ago was my last roofing job. And it
isn't because I am blind, just old.
RJ
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Hi up here in Minnesota where we raise a lot of soy beans we have a lot of
these bugs that we genarically call Ladie bugs. Some call them African or
asian beedles. They are a little domed shape bug with a hard shell. They
kind of just look like a little round bump like you would find on the home
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