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Acetone will remove permanent marker ink, or at least, most inks including the permanent markers that I buy. Nail polish remover will typically be pure acetone or contain a lot of acetone (along with amyl acetate, which is a big brother to acetone). Acetone is also soluble in water, just...

Highrise: I will try to post a response to your question when I have more time tonight. SOME, (not all), vegetable oils will transform into a solid when exposed to the oxygen in the air. (I will explain the process by which that happens tonight.) This process is caled...

Use a sharp knife or pair of scizzors to cut the paper tape away. Remove only the loose tape. Replace that short piece of paper tape with a piece of self adhesive fiberglass mesh plasterboard tape. Cover over that fiberglass mesh with joint compound, sand smooth, prime and paint.

Exterior Ply would mean exterior plywood. Plywood is wood panels made of layers of wood glued together so that the wood grain alternates in every ply to make the panel strong in both directions. Exterior plywood is made using a waterproof glue. I would recommend that you use a true tile...

Simply apply some liquid dish washing detergent to that spot, scrub with an old toothbrush and rinse off the emulsified cooking oil with running water. You can also dissolve the oil with mineral spirits, but you might not have that handy, and then you also have the problem of disposing of the...

Spud1962: If this is your heating system water you're planning to drain off, then there SHOULD be a drain valve on your boiler. Snoop around your boiler and you should find it. If you can't find a drain valve, but do find a place where you can screw a pipe into your boiler, I would...

It seems to me that one way for the west to help break it's addiction to Arab oil is by developing a SAFE nuclear reactor. I just don't understand why, with strict controls over quality of construction and redundant systems to ensure safe operation of the reactor, we can't turn to nuclear...

I agree with your friend. Every time I post in here I get the impression that all the men in here lose respect for me. Like I'm some kind of harlot or strumpet. If I didn't get all messed up on alcohol and pain killers every night, I don't know how I'd cope with the humiliation. Tell...

Croppy: Can't comment on underlayments, but if you're interested in a very durable flooring material that also cushions against foot falls, then go talk to the COMMERCIAL salesman at your local carpet retailer about Johnsonite Comfortech flooring...

Sanjay: White tint bases will dry to slightly different colours, and that's true for tint bases of different chemistries (alkyd vs. emulsion) and from different paint companies (and even for different gloss levels within the same company and chemistry). So, if you took a white...

It would be best to solder or thread on a 15mm shut off valve with a 10 mm outlet on it. That would both serve as a reducer and allow you to shut off the water to that tap only without shutting off the water to the whole bathroom. The 15 mm piping has greater diameter and threrefore flow...

Could also be sumthin dumb as a bag of hammers like a bad connection at a wire terminal or a broken wire. Check for continuity across the inlet valve solenoid terminals. It's just a coil of wire that moves a plunger backward against spring pressure when energized, so if you get continuity...

I agree it would be best to take it all off, and the reason why is that if you redo the job, then the new primer and paint will be better suited to the service conditions and is likely to provide better service. You don't want to paint over paint that's not adhering well, and have the new paint...

Wood swells and shrinks with seasonal changes in humidity, so you may have some slight problems, but that wouldn't stop me from putting up kitchen cabinets for storage in my garage. If your garage is hot in summer and cold in winter, you might want to consider insulating it as well. You...

I normally only use 3 clips; one on each side of the sink and one at the back near the faucet. What I do is drop the sink into the hole and move it to the left, right, forward and back as far as it'll go as far as possible in each of those 4 directions, and mark the furthest extent of it's...

Unfortunately, all of the chemical strippers I'm aware of will attack both acrylic and oil based finishes. If dulling the gloss of the oil based finish on the table wasn't a problem, then you could remove the acrylic paint with nail polish remover. But that would also leave a dull spot on the...

Try leaving the bleach on for longer. Puddle a little bit of bleach over the stain and let it sit on the stain for a while. The bleach should work to remove the stain, and if it doesn't seem to be working, it could simply be that you need to leave it on for longer. The following is a...

"but don't fancy that with these cos they're rectangular." Why don't you do something strange for a change? Why not set those rectangular tiles on the wall in landscape mode instead of portrait mode. I like doing that because you rarely (if ever) see it done and there's absolutely no...

Would bleach straight out of the jug harm the counter top? If it's plastic laminate, it shouldn't.

My second choice as a tiling strategy for this wall would probably be to just spread the tile adhesive all over the wall and leave it like that. I said I do strange things.