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Prolly outlast the pyramids, too.

Aberlee: Not sure why the original repair failed, but it could be that the base coat plaster was sticking to a weak surface. In my building, the plaster walls are 3/4 inch thick. If I drill a hole in them and use a plastic anchor, that'll be strong enough to support a curtain rod (cuz you...

Sound is caused by vibrations. Go to any place that sells auto mechanic tools, and ask to see what they have in the way of "mechanic's stethoscopes". A mechanic's stethoscope looks very similar to a doctor's stethoscope, but they have a metal probe instead of a cup. A mechanic will use...

Scrit's 100% right about that auto-oxidation process being exothermic. It's this process that is the cause of the warning never to allow "OILY" rages to accumulate in a pile. (And, now you know that this same warning wouldn't apply to rags that are damp with white spirits or rags that are damp...

Can you not press the skirting side edge of the masking tape down with a wide putty knife, do your painting, allow that paint to dry completely, and then pull off the tape? Perhaps I'm not understanding the issue that's causing the problem. If there's concern over the tape tearing when...

Very important point to add to the instructions in the previous post: Wet the floor down and allow that water to be absorbed into the wood or concrete below before doing anything. (Don't wet down the whole floor, only the area you want to remove the black stuff from (several square feet...

Kevin: The reason why that happened is probably because you started your bottom row of tiles sitting right on the tub itself. It's better to fasten straight pieces of wood molding to the walls around the tub (and I use double sided mounting tape to do that) so the bottom row of...

Aberlee: You said: "however, the hole is kinda conical shaped, and the refilled/plastered area pulls straight back out when ever any weights put on it." If you paint the exposed surfaces that you want the base coat plaster to stick to with white wood glue (PVA) diluted with enough water...

Global warming might indeed be real. But it's also true that the weather has changed substantially and rapidly before. An example can be had by just looking at any of the paintings depicting Holland in the 17th and 18th centuries. Those paintings show people SKATING on the canals in...

I usually get all lit up on a mix of pain killers and alcohol. I swallow a handful of caffeine pills every morning, but I don't take them because I'm addicted to them. I take them just for kicks. I sniff solvents too.

Here's a Product Description of Traffic: http://www.bonakemi.com/productspecs/pdf/traffic.pdf Because Traffic will begin curing as soon as you add the catalyst, you might try going with a less durable but more user friendly hardwood floor finish from Bona called "Mega"...

You see, the carpet is STRETCHED onto those tack strips nailed to the floor. So, if you pull it off the tack strips, it's no longer in tension and you're likely to get ripples in it from the looseness. If you can, go out and buy some 2 inch wide ordinary masking tape and press that right...

I don't think that black asphaltic tile adhesive is actually bitumen. But, regardless, it's not a problem to tile over it, but you're wanting to install some electrical heating wire under the floor necessitates it's removal (I think), cuz the stuff will get soft and flow if it's warm. It...

I wouldn't use epoxy. Just scrape out the loose plaster, paint the surfaces you want the new plaster to stick well to with PVA wood glue diluted with water to make it into a paintable consistancy, and then fill that big crack with a base coat plaster. Then skim coat over that with a finish...

You could run a horizontal row of border tiles around the wall. Border tiles come in various widths from 3/4 inch wide to about 3 inches wide. Or you could run two different rows of different width border tiles around the room. That way, you could shift your horizontal grout lines up and...

High.Rise: As promised, here is an explanation of how drying oils form films, and how alkyds are made from drying oils: I had the part on drying oils saved from a post I did on another site, and just added the part about what alkyds are. Here's what people need to know about...

The belts on a Maytag are under the bottom panel of the washer, so if you can slide a mirror under your washer you can inspect them with a flashlight. On Maytag washing machine, just as on most washing machines, the motor changes it's direction of rotation when it goes from agitate to spin...

You get maximum durability when you have the most durable coating over that wood. There are several new polyurethane technologies making their way down the pipe into consumer goods, and one of them is a catalyzed waterborne polyurethane. It's about 3 times as durable as the conventional "oil...

Madge: The tape is there to carry any tensile stress if there's any tension on one side of the wall due to the wall bending (or the building shifting, or whatever). If it's just a short section of tape that's come loose, then, yes, you can just cut it out and patch with...

If you do that, your loft would be warmer because the space would be better insulated. However, you need to both provide a vapour barrier and address the issue of ventilation. Vapour barrier: Warm moist air rising up through the insulation will condense into water droplet in the...