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Go to any tool rental place with your drill and ask to see if you can fit ANY of their SDS bits in your drill. If you can, and the bit doesn't wobble when spun on YOUR drill, then inquire further about their SDS rotary hammer drills, and the accessories that are available for them. Normally...

What about: 1. Buying a 12 point deep socket of the correct size 2. Putting it in a vice and cutting the drive end off so that it slips over your spindle, and 3. turning that thing with a pipe wrench. (or welding a larger nut onto the outside or top of it, and using a large adjustable...

If the object here is to recommend a finish for a hardwood floor that the poster can put on themselves, then I'm sure all of the knowledgeable people in here will have recommendations that will serve the poster well. If the objective here is to recommend a finish for a hardwood floor that...

Prolly the best you can do is simply scrape off the paint that's peeling (and not putting up a good fight to stay on the radiator), sand down to "feather edge" the paint that's remaining and repaint. I'd probably go with a fairly glossy emulsion paint. The glossier the paint the easier it...

The reason why polyurethane "varnish" has become the clear coat of choice over hardwood floors here in North America is because it's superior hardness both a) provides the best protection for the wood floor of the three options you mentioned, and b) keeps the floor looking newer longer...

Three things that haven't been mentioned that I think are important for the poster to know are: 1. Porcelain tiles are "homogeneous", which means they're the same color and material all the way through the tile's thickness. Ceramic tiles have a clay "biscuit" with a pattern on top. You're...

Look in your yellow pages under Janitorial Equipment & Supplies. Any of the companies there that sell carpet cleaning chemicals will also sell professional "spotting" solutions, which is a fancy way of saying "stain remover". You can buy spotting solutions for blood, urine and feces, vomit...

Nobackwheel: If you're simply wanting to hang something like a calendar, then a nail is fine, or even an adhesive hook. If you're wanting to mount something like a wall clock, which will break if it drops, then a hollow wall anchor, or even a plastic anchor, is all you need...

That's standard practice on this side of the pond. Just remember the following points: 1. There are different kinds of joint compounds: A) Regular or "Taping" has had the most glue added to it, so it sticks best, dries the hardest, but is also hardest to sand smooth. B) Finish or...

When water migrates through masonary walls, it picks up minerals that are soluble in water on it's way through. When the water gets to the surface of the wall, then it evaporates and leaves those dissolved minerals behind as a white salt. We call that white powdery stain "efflourescence"...

Zinsser's makes a sticky emulsion primer called "Bullseye 123" which they boast will stick to a wide variety of smooth and otherwise hard-to-stick-to materials, like glazed ceramic wall tiles and high gloss polyurethane. I'd use a 3 inch paint roller sleeve to prime your plastic pipes with...

I'm thinking of fitting shelves across the existing door frame and turning the recess into a large spice and condiments rack. Alternatively, take the door casings and frame out, and simply install studs into the rough opening, install plasterboard, mud the joints, sand them smooth, prime and...

Derdeb: If this is a prefab plastic laminate counter top, then there will be a "lip" along the top edge of the short backsplash that needs to be cut to fit the contour of the wall. That lip is about 1/2 inch wide so that it can accomodate up to that much curvature in the wall...

nstreet: People asking for help and then not responding is common too. If someone gets into a conversation with someone in here where there's one-on-one help going on, then normally that person will get back and let us know how things were finally resolved. But, if it was a...

Wet a white tissue with nail polish remover (aka: acetone) and dab that against the black spray paint. If the black color transfers to the white tissue, then you're making progress. Use the regular nail polish remover, not the solvent free stuff.

Smashing things has a calming influence. In my anger management classes, our instructor tells us that it's healthy to "act out" our emotional needs. I only took the course so I could qualify for parole.

I used to leave my trowels soaking in a bucket of water so the plaster on them would soften up before I cleaned them. But, one time something came up and it slipped my mind that I left the trowels soaking in water, and they came out discoloured from the corrosion. I think they make them out...

I think we all benefit from pooling our knowledge and sharing with one another. I like to get a "Thanks" when my posted advice does some good, but as often as not it's a "Thanks anyhow" because the problem couldn't be resolved for some other reason or circumstances changed. If I let it get...

Start the dryer and set it on both the regular dry cycle and the delicates cycle. See if there's any heat on EITHER cycle. If not, it COULD be the heating element, but let's check to see if there's any heat on either cycle first. If either one has heat, it's not the heating element.

It's interesting to note that the branch of physics we now call "quantum mechanics" actually got started from a phenomenon no one could understand called "cavity radiation". If you take any body and heat it, the amount of energy radiated from it's surface is dependant on both the material...