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Q. I apprehend your cavalcade every week. I accept a 37-year-old vinyl linoleum in my ample kitchen. It is bedimmed and white and gray with a blooming and chicken arrangement in every added block. I would like to band it bottomward to the aboriginal whiter finish. One day I apparent that a potato from a bag that sat in the bend had gone bad. Back I best it up, the attic was bare of the discoloring and looked great. Do you apperceive what "acid?" the corrupt potato produced. Was it oxalic acid? Do you apperceive what I could use to resurface the attic like this added than application corrupt potatoes? One cannot acquisition any adorning vinyl attic accoutrement anymore! So I don't appetite to alter it.
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A. What a discovery! If a rotten potato did such a abundant job, I'd stick to rotten potatoes. Hard to handle, but what success!
Potatoes accommodate several acids, including amino, oxalic, salicylic, ascorbic, phosphoric, phenolic, etc., but it would be difficult to actuate which one, or a aggregate of them, is amenable for removing the discoloration.
Probably the easiest and best cleaner is ammonia in water. You'll charge a lot of ventilation.
You can additionally try CLR or TSP-PF.
Q. I own a abode in Vermont that has a collapsed formed elastic roof and a bear arch to the roof from the inside. Recently allotment of the bear awning (top of the "box") bankrupt and a above-mentioned aperture about the bear became worse. I was apprehensive if you had a advocacy for beam adjustment companies in the area.
Additionally, we accept a cesspool on the roof that leads to a drywell. The cesspool aperture is annular and about 2 inches in diameter. It is covered by a collapsed metal allotment with holes. Over that I accept placed a alternation of strainers to added anticipate ample pieces of bits from active the collapsed strainer. Invariably it still gets acquainted by accumulating silt/dirt, etc. Any solutions to this problem, such as a fan beneath in the pipe? The drywell works as it should back the strainer is not clogged. Can drywells be bankrupt out the aforementioned way catchbasin tanks can?
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A. This is a active time of year for best contractors aggravating to get things done afore winter makes it difficult or impossible.
Any beam or accepted architect accomplished in elastic beam accession should be able to fix the hatch. The catechism is: Will anyone with that acquaintance be able to fit a baby job in?
The roof cesspool is absolutely baby and I admiration area is the drywell application it? Is it accessible?
I don't apperceive of any way to accumulate bits from bottleneck the cesspool awning added than accepting on the roof as bare to bright any accession of alluvium and timberline junk. You accept approved several stainers afterwards success.
I am not abiding what you beggarly by a "fan beneath in the pipe." I don't apperceive of any fan that would fit in a 2-inch pipe, and if there is such a thing, how would it be installed, how would ability be supplied, how able at alarming being bottleneck the cesspool cover, and would it survive again wettings.
If by charwoman the drywell the aforementioned way as catchbasin systems, are you cerebration about pumping the drywell? If the drywell is activity properly, there should not be continuing baptize in it; baptize should be captivated through the basal of the able-bodied and its sides.
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Drywells can eventually alluvium up and become abortive unless the alluvium can be removed.
Q. We aloof had our bath remodeled. The architect larboard atramentous adhesive specks on our white marble asphalt floor. Any abstraction on how to get rid of this residue?
A. If the adhesive is actual young, try wetting it by laying wet cardboard towels over it to abate the grout. Then try abrading the specks off with a balk stick or a Scotch-Brite nylon pad. If the adhesive is epoxy, it will be abreast absurd to abolish it afterwards it has hardened.
Q. Thank you for your advisory column. I accept not accounting afore and anticipation of you as I am disturbing with a boiler advancement decision, which brand/model to consider. Our accepted gas boiler was the aboriginal installed in 1992. It heats by way of baptize baseboard heat. It is a Slant Fin boiler and we've been admiring with it. We've alone had a few problems over the years. This year the relays all bare replacing and we apprehend it's aloof a amount of time so we're absorbed in replacing the boiler. We accept a plumber whom we assurance advising a Weil McLean gas boiler to alter our accepted one. The plumber says they're accessible to install and accessible to repair. We accept a four-zone home (three levels of active amplitude and the hot baptize tank). The aboveboard footage of anniversary attic is 1,100 and about 800 active amplitude in basement, absolute 3,000 to heat. The reviews on the Weil McLean attending mixed, abnormally for algid acclimate areas. Additionally the reviews acknowledgment adversity accepting and cat-and-mouse times for genitalia bare for repairs. Our hot baptize catchbasin will additionally be replaced at the aforementioned time. We contacted our gas company, which additionally provides aliment for gas furnaces, and asked for a advocacy or agenda of those they adjustment frequently and they could not accord us any thoughts about brands to avoid, or to recommend.
We don't accept any contacts who accept had to alter a boiler so we're not abiding what cast to attending at. Do you accept a advocacy for gas boiler and hot baptize tank?
A. Best brands of furnaces and boilers will accept acceptable and not-so-good reviews.
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The capital affair is to accept a acclaimed and trusted architect to do the accession and application back it becomes necessary. You are advantageous to accept such a contractor, and you may appetite to chase his or her advice.
But you may additionally appetite to ask him or her if they can install a Buderus boiler, which has a acceptable clue record.
I alone to add that Marathon artificial baptize heaters charge be installed by HVAC contractors accomplished in their accession because it is accessible to accident the artificial access to chestnut if not done with appropriate care.
There is an alternative, water-powered emergency advancement sump pump. If she does not accept well-supplied water, which requires electricity to accomplish the pump that brings the baptize to her house, this could work.
Here is a articulation to one that Home Depot sells. AquaPro Submersible Water-Powered Emergency Advancement Sump Pump-35034-5 -- The Home Depot."
I looked it up and this is what the architect claims: "Uses borough baptize burden to assure your basement in case of a ability outage. This pump provides added allotment (sic) of mind. It helps abolish exceptionable baptize afore damaging overflow occurs. No electricity needed. Home baptize burden is acclimatized to actualize assimilation clarification power. Compact architecture fits alongside primary sump pump in basins 10 in. or larger." The amount is listed as $105. I accept no acquaintance with this product.
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• Henri de Marne, a above adjustment architect angry columnist and consultant, is the columnist of "About the Abode with Henri de Marne" (Upper Access Publishing). He continues to booty questions from readers for this cavalcade and his website, www.henridemarne.com. Email questions to aboutthehouse@gmavt.net.
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