Tag: home-improvement
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Final Steps for Finishing Bathroom
Once the tile is cleaned of the excess grout it is time to put the final touches on the room to ensure a better fit. Once you have your fixture able to be adjusted firm against the till or wall. It is time to place the decorative rings. Most of these come in the kits…
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Grouting the Tile
After you’ve finished setting your tile in the thinnest bed. You need to give the tile and thinnest time to dry. After a day I rack out all the extra thinnest. Then I scrub the tiles to clean them. I bought a 4” scrub brush which attaches to my cordless drill I use for this…
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Plumbing And Lining You Unit
During the building process hopefully, you have been tacking your walls in place so you could go throughout the unit and plumb and line your walls before stacking your roof. The first step in plumbing in lining is to start making the walls are straight. Wall the wall line of you unit to ensure…
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Shingling
Thie may sound crazy but before you begin shingling but after you have felted the roof you need to read the instructions on the pack of shingles. You do this to get the set backs and the height you step up to remain in the nailing strip. There are two mail type of shingle.…
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Setting the Bathroom Faucet for A Shower Tub Combo
I was doing a fresh water plumbing project and the homeowner was fascinated by the way I went about the project. She asked a few questions, so I started telling her why I was going about it the way I was. The walls where I was setting the plumbing was not finished so I searched…
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Laying Out and Tiling Your Project
I have seen different methods used to lay out for tiling an area. Personally, I start by snapping two straight line and right angles to each other when ever this is possible. I then take the tiles and place them as though I am putting them in the thin set with spacer and all. I…
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Crawl Space vs. Poured Concrete Foundations
When I began building homes, we use to frame our forms out of 2 X materials and we would stack them and cleat them together with other 2 Xs. After this we would frame a short wall and clad it with plywood. We needed to over brace these forms to prevent blow-out from the concrete.…
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Stay Calm
For many of my clients I am the only one who been through the building or purchasing many times. These are stressful times for the clients and well-meaning people sometimes give poor advice. Take a moment before answering and plan out what you wish to convey. Do not get excited and act like you have…
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A Word of Warning About Scammers
Today is March 1, 2024. I have a cousin whom I talk with daily which lives with her husband outside of Columbus Ohio. A few days ago, when we first spoke that day, she explained to me that they were tired. She went on to say the tornado sirens were blasting and that they spent…
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A Forward Glance of The Roofing Project I Am Working On.
The roofing project I wrote about a few blogs has been shingled. I have put a few photos of the finished result in this blog. This photo is of a small dormer with a door underneath it. At the bottom of the roof, you can see a black line. That is the back side of…
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