Perhaps this could be accomplished by attaching a dial inclinometer to a 2 or
four foot level. If the face/lense of the dial can be removed so the pointer
on the dial could be felt...I have a neighborhood hardware store in my area
with very knowledgable and helpful people working there. The ne
Lee,
I actually have cotton gloves for just such a purpose, but we have
some of those same stores here, Home Depo, Sears, WalMart Ace Hardware...
Thanks for the suggestion.
Betsy
At 04:00 AM 10/13/2008, you wrote:
>I would suggest using the same kind of glue or caulking that Dale had
>suggested
Exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks.
Betsy
At 05:13 PM 10/12/2008, you wrote:
>Hi Betsy,
>
>The trouble with most glues is that you have to hole the piece in
>place while the glue sets up. This takes time and is usually
>achieved by tapping in a few pins. In your case this defeats the
>purpos
Hey Folks,
I was here a few years ago with some questions and now I am back. I am
looking in to selling my house, believe it or not but there are some good
areas for the housing market in Texas, and thankfully I am in one of them.
My agent came out and looked over my house, I need to do some
There is a product called liquid nails that is kind of a contact cement or can
be used like rubber cement. Any way it is made for the type of work you are
talking about. Its primary use is gluing flooring to floor joists along with
nailing or screwing and also gluing paneling to sheetrock. T
hi list, I would like to Polly urethane my floor in the living room, but it's
a living room dining room and there is a lot of furniture.
now the stripping the floor and everything else I can do, but I am intimidated
by the aspect of moving the furniture.
can any one on this list who has done t
hey gang
can anyone share some any info on the self bleeder valves that are made for hot
water radiator heating system
do they work as i have been told
some people around here say yes and some say no can anyone share thanks mark
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hi list.
I have a friend who owns a home and now that oil and gas prices are so high
she wants to cut back on fuel. the problem is this.
the house is 120 years old, and even though the boiler is new the radiators in
the rooms are not. she can not turn off these radiators in these rooms and
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You can buy inexpensive cotton gloves in the Health and beauty department of
stores like Wal-mart. They are used to go with lotion on the hands at night.
Jennifer
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Unless you have darn good sight I don't recommend you take this on.
Scrubbing the old finish off can be done fairly well with a belt sander if you
don't mind a load of time on your hands & knees however the better way to do
this is with a drum sander and this takes great care. It will grind off
I would suggest using the same kind of glue or caulking that Dale had
suggested however, get some cheap gloves to wear. soft cotton or
mittens which would slide easy up and down that molding especially
the outside edge corner moldings. Now I think , where in Hawaii is a
woman going to b
Hi Mark,
Not knowing what others are telling you about how the valves work it is
difficult to say what is correct.
The valve should be high on the radiators. This is where air pockets will rise
to. With the system running you open the valve and allow the air to his out
until you get water. Col
Ron, we usedliquid nails in this house for installing bathroom marble
type 4 by 8 sheets. Like Dale Evans mentioned we had to hold it up
but I am reminded that that liquid nails we used was dispensed thru a
caulking gun . it can be purchased in smaller tubes too. However , at
that time
Get someone to help with the heavy furniture, but it all needs to be out of
the room.
We put water based poly down, and it had to cure for a week before you could
put heavy furniture back on it, but it does not have the fumes that oil
based has.
Michael
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hi dale
the valves i am looking into are the self bleeding valves when installed they
are supposed to let the air out automatically
this is the disputed area some say they work great and some say no go was going
to install for this heating season but the fold around here are making the
choice di
Liquid nail is pretty messy and stains and the smell, as with most construction
adhesives is pretty strong and bad. It is cheaper than silicone and well suited
to being buried in construction like under drywall or floor decking but I don't
much like it for this sort of application.
I used gallo
Hi,
I have seen it done professionally, usually to restore those old claw foot tubs
that people like to have for nostalgic purposes where price isn't the object.
Mostly though I think it is a professional job, pretty difficult as a D Y I
project. If your cleaner doesn't do it I think I would ha
Hello Angel,
There are several things that can be done but a lot depends on the sort of
boiler and how it is connected to the radiators. If a single loop then it is
necessary to rearrange the piping to break the system down into zones. It could
be a loop with the rads as parallel loops which co
The only thing I am aware of with respect to the self bleeding valves is that
they sometimes fail and will dribble water. This should not happen of course
but if I had a dollar for everything that shouldn't happen I would be a
wealthier man.
The manual bleeders can leak too and occasionally nee
The drawer pulls in the kitchen are warn. The brass is very discolored. On
Saturday Karen went to a craft show and someone had a buy-out. They had
several styles of drawer pulls. She purchased 21 polished brass knobs at 50ยข
each. When we went to change them we now have a problem. The old knobs h
There is a Swedish product available here in the U.K. called Donner (I may
have the spelling incorrect).
It is water-based and easy to apply.
You just slosh it over the floor and it dries in a few hours.
You need to apply three coats and after the third has dried, it is even more
robust than the po
eglazing my tub be? Has anyone done this sort of
thing?
Thanks
Shawn
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Try your local hardware store for brass washers. I know our local one does
carry them in different sizes.
..bob
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I had someone do mine. It turned out fine, but I wouldn't consider doing it
myself.
Without some experience, it seems to me this is one of those jobs you can't
afford to mess up.
Blessings,
Tom
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This is good. I've done this several times in my home and it's a rather
simple procedure.
In a few places the valve was broken, so I just took a wrench and unscrewed
the valve body until it opened up.
If this is a water system the pressure is not great. It won't spray all
over.
Blessings,
Tom
If each radiator has it's own loop, there is a valve that can be installed
in the line with a thermostat to control the heat to just that room. I saw
it on "Ask This Old House" recently.
Blessings,
Tom
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