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Sealing Windows & Door Casings
Changes in temperature and humidity cause the casing surrounding doors and windows to expand and contract. Overtime, the constant movement causes gaps to form between the casing and the siding of the house. These gaps allow the conditioned air inside a home to leak outside. This increases the costs
Cheap Ways to Soundproof an Outside Bedroom Wall
Soundproofing an exterior facing wall is a project that may be necessary to block out street noise or other distractions. Though it might sound like a difficult undertaking, it is actually simple enough for a do-it-yourself project. The type and amount of soundproofing material will vary depending o
How to Make a Shower Splash Guard
Keep water from splashing all over your bathroom floor with a shower splash guard. Splash guards sit atop your tub’s ledge at either end and block water that would otherwise escape past the curtain ends. Most splash guards on the market are made of plastic. If you feel that plastic does not fi
What Kind of Pictures Go in a Kitchen?
Bare kitchen walls are boring, and that probably does not reflect the way you live your life. For renters or a homeowner on a budget, a few pictures will bring color, personality and contribute to a theme if desired. Adding a wall border in the same theme as the pictures completes the look in your k
How to Use Joint Compound
Joint compound does what its name implies - it fills joints between drywall. Here's how to use it correctly, as well as a few tips on other helpful uses for this stuff.
How to Square a Block Wall
A block wall can be used in many different locations around your home. This includes your home's foundation, at the base of a porch or deck or as a landscape fixture, such as a retaining wall. No matter where you want to use a block wall, when you install the wall, you must take care to create a stu
Coatings to Refinish a Concrete Pool Deck
Refinishing a concrete pool deck gives your pool area a whole new look. Many options are available with different materials to refinish a pool deck. New overlays can also reduce heat absorption to prevent burning tender feet around the pool.
Rustic Cabinet Door Styles
Old barn wood cabinet doors look right at home in a country kitchen.Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty ImagesFunky farmhouse kitchens are a popular design. Their charm relies on details like vintage stoves, deep farm sinks, worn wood and rustic cabinetry with reproduction hardware. The...
How to Estimate How Much Roofing Weighs
Building a house means understanding weight loads. One of the most important weight loads you must understand is the one placed on your roof trusses by the sheathing, shingles and other accessories that make up the roof. Every engineered set of trusses will come with paperwork telling you how to ins
How to Remove Waterproofing
Waterproofing is used in a variety of areas, mostly as an underlayment layer between the substrate surface and a ceramic tile installation. It can be a painted-on type of waterproofing or a membrane that is rolled out and stuck with a tar-based adhesive, and in all cases it can be removed during a r
Mobile Home Parks in New Jersey
There are many mobile home park communities in New Jersey, and a majority cater to senior citizens and retirees. However, mobile home parks can also be great places to stay for family vacations. They often offer a amenities such as water and sewer, recreation facilities and general...
How to Add Tile to a Tabletop
A tile tabletop can be an attractive addition to your home's decor. With a little planning and some work, you can transform even the most mundane tabletop into a real work of art. Here's how to do it.
Amount of Time Needed to Compost
Composting is a natural way to put certain types of food waste and yard debris to good use by letting the materials decompose, turning the material into usable, nutritious soil. The time it takes to compost material depends on a number of variables, including ambient temperatures, humidity, composti
How to Troubleshoot Splits in a Wood Floor
Splits throughout a wood floor surface can indicate a number of floor problems, from old homes setting to bad floorboard installation. Before repairing the splits it's important for you to determine and correct the causes. Once you've dealt with the cause, you can repair the damage with confidence t
Thickness of Subfloor for Hardwood Flooring
Beautiful hardwood flooring begins with the subfloor. Inadequate subfloor thickness may result in cracking or bending of your new hardwood floors. There are guidelines to help ensure proper thickness for exquisite new hardwood floors in your home.
How to Repair Walls With a Joint Compound
Drywall is used in many homes as an inexpensive building material for walls. Consisting of plaster between two pieces of paper, drywall is not the most resilient of building materials. When a house's weight begins to shift, cracks may appear in the walls. As long as the cracking is not extremely sev
What to Put Under Hardwood Flooring
The natural beauty and durability of wood floors makes them a popular treatment in old and new homes alike. Older homes may or may not have used an underlayment beneath the wood. However, new installations--fixed or floating--may need an underlayment for a number of reasons. Before remodeling, consi
Glass Tile Ideas
Glass tile is one of the hottest trends in home decor, and it's easy to see why. Glass tile's unique, bejeweled appearance and durability give it great potential that is both decorative and functional. Glass tiles are suitable for kitchen and bathroom floors and walls, and they can also be used deco
Characteristics of Walnut Wood Furniture
Walnut furniture is made from the walnut tree.walnut image by Christopher Hall from Fotolia.comConsumers and builders alike love the look of walnut wood. If you're considering purchasing walnut wood furniture, or making furniture yourself, there are a few things you may not know. Finding...
How to Reassemble My Metal Futon Frame
If you disassembled your metal futon frame only to have to reassemble it without the manufacturer's instructions, you are not the first person to do this, nor are you likely to be the last. Because of the moving parts, this process is not as intuitive as putting together simpler furniture like bed f