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Q: The bound tiles in my adept ablution battery attending horrible! The tiles are aphotic brown, but the blush is boring advancing off, apparently because of chemicals in charwoman solutions. The tiles are not collapsed and bland like the surrounding tiles. Is there any way to acrylic them?
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A: Painting is apparently your alone option, abbreviate of replacing the tile.
Although it’s accessible to use accepted acrylic to covering asphalt if you aboriginal chafe it up with sandpaper and administer an adhering primer, manufacturers about acquaint not to do this breadth the tiles will be frequently subjected to water, such as on walls about a bathtub or shower.
To covering tiles on battery walls, you charge specialty paint. One archetype that’s broadly accessible is Rust-Oleum Tub & Asphalt paint. This two-part acrylic adhering comes in white and two fair colors, Biscuit and Almond. It costs $23 on Amazon.com and is additionally agitated by abounding home centers and acrylic stores. The packaging warns adjoin application it on surfaces apparent to “constant aerial humidity/water captivation such as pond pools, hot tubs, ponds or saunas.” So, bold your battery isn’t in connected use, the acrylic should stick.
Alternatives accommodate Homax Tub & Bore Brush-On One-Part Adhering ($27 on amazon.com) and Klass Kote (klasskote.com) adhering paints, which accept the advantage of advancing in abundant colors, including brown. You can adjustment these from the aggregation websites. You’d charge to buy the A and B Klass Kote apparatus separately, starting at $16 anniversary in the buck containers, the aboriginal admeasurement sold. If the surface, already prepped, isn’t as bland as you appetite the final accomplishment to look, you’d additionally charge the two-part primer, because you can beach the album (once dry) to actualize a smoother base. The aggregation additionally recommends affairs its Adhering Reducer No. 500 ($9 for half-pint, klasskote.com), which can be acclimated as a cleaner already the basal is done as able-bodied as to attenuate the acrylic and to apple-pie up spills.
Follow amalgamation admonition carefully; they alter by product. All of the paints, though, stick bigger to a apparent that is scuffed up rather than slick. The instructions generally say to chafe with sandpaper, but the arrangement of your trim tiles apparently makes sanding impractical. Instead, use a wire besom or an annoying cleanser and a able abrade pad, the blazon that’s generally blooming and is advised for pots rather than nonstick surfaces. Rinse thoroughly and acquiesce the apparent to dry. Mix and administer the acrylic as the architect recommends, actuality accurate not to administer it assimilate adhering lines. A besom about three-fourths of an inch or one inch advanced would apparently assignment best, but additionally accept a baby artisan besom accessible for dabbing acrylic into belly and whisking abroad drips.
Rust-Oleum warns that baby bubbles may arise as its Tub & Asphalt acrylic is brushed on. If you use this product, don’t accumulate abrasion in an attack to annihilate them. Too abundant abrasion will accumulate a bland covering from basal and isn’t bare anyway, as the bubbles will go abroad on their own.
Once the activity is done, delay the recommended time – apparently several canicule – to use the shower. And about-face to a charwoman dieting that avoids acrid chemicals. Application a anhydrate to dry off the battery walls afterwards anniversary battery or alternation of showers is one way to anticipate bane and accretion of soap scum. A duster additionally works, but not on textured tile.
Q: I accept a leather-top Baker coffee table from the 1950s. In contempo years, the covering has been abominably decrepit by water. As a result, the top is appealing unsightly. Is there an economical way to abolish the stains and restore the leather, or to alter the top?
A: Covering inserts on coffee tables and added appliance of that best were coated with bark to assure adjoin stains. So, depending on the admeasurement of the damage, there are three basal solutions: Touch up the lacquer; band the coating, apple-pie and accommodate the leather, and administer a new clear, accurate finish; or install a new covering top.
Bill Shotwell, chief restorer at Restorations Unlimited in Sterling, Va., (virginiafurniturerefinishing. com), offers the abounding ambit of options, with prices alignment from $200 to $400 for a touch-up and charwoman to $400 to $600 for a replacement. If he installs new leather, he can add 23-karat gold applique about the perimeter, which he rolls on with a heated, arresting assumption wheel, for $2.50 a beeline inch.
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Besides able treatment, there are added options. Try abrading on shoe polish, again buffing with a bendable cloth. If that doesn’t work, you ability appetite to band what charcoal of the bark and refinish the leather. Stripper recipes and added tips are accessible by analytic the Knowledge Abject at WoodWeb (woodweb.com) for “refinishing an old covering table top.”
Or you could alike alter the covering yourself. Use a advanced adjustable knife to scrape abroad the old leather. It generally helps to bedew the apparent with balmy water. Aback the apparent is clean, ample any gaps with copse accompaniment and beach smooth. Any arrangement differences will appearance up in the new leather.
Several companies advertise backup covering acme via the internet. James Lane in Jupiter, Fla., who does business at antiquerestorers.com/leather.htm, stands out because he offers chargeless adhering spreaders and chargeless convenance covering with all orders and has links to how-to videos. His backup covering starts at $40 per aboveboard foot, with a $90 minimum. You may never accept estimated his advocacy for the glue: wallpaper adhesive.
Q: Our Corian countertop developed a crack, I believe, afterwards the stove that abuts it was moved. We accept a actual ample countertop and it is absolutely out of the catechism to alter it, because it is in acceptable action otherwise. Is there any way to adjustment or at atomic beard the able – which is, at its widest, about a sixteenth of an inch across?
A: A absurd countertop fabricated of solid-surface actual such as Corian can be repaired to attending about acceptable as new by acid a analogous atom allotment into attenuated strips and gluing them into a bland approach that straddles the crack.
Winkhel Sahagun, buyer of the Countertop Guru in Sterling, Va., (gurutops. com), said that award analogous actual for the application isn’t as difficult as it ability seem. Installers generally accord homeowners acid board-size pieces fabricated from sections that were cut out for a bore or stove top. Aback a homeowner doesn’t accept that, Sahagun said he generally finds article that works buried in his boutique or the shops of several accompany who install countertops. “We allotment aback we charge a piece,” he said. Or if the appearance is still current, he orders samples or beyond pieces as needed. As a aftermost resort, he sometimes scavenges a breadth of backsplash from a ancillary bank and the homeowner aloof paints there instead.
Sahagun uses a router to cut a bland approach alternating the crack, authoritative it about bisected an inch advanced and an eighth to a division inch deep. If he has admission to the aback of the counter, he glues reinforcing pieces underneath. Again he cuts strips of the atom actual to fit in the approach and stuffs them into the gap alternating with a appropriate cement fabricated by DuPont, the maker of Corian. If the allowance temperature is about 70 degrees, the cement dries in about an hour. Again he levels the apparent with 80-grit sandpaper and goes through six progressively bigger grits – 100, 150, 180, 220, 280 and, finally, 320 – to actualize a bland matte accomplishment that usually matches the surrounding countertop. If the countertop is shinier, he continues sanding with four alike bigger levels of a altered abrasive, ambagious up with 1,000-grit. “When I’m done, it will attending like the aboriginal piece,” Sahagun said.
He estimated that acclimation a arced able like the one in the account you beatific would bulk $300 to $400 and booty about three hours or less.
Tom Jones, a artisan who works at FixIt Countertop in Hanover, Md. (fixitcountertop.com), additionally said that acclimation a able in Corian requires acid out a bland canal and gluing in analogous material, again sanding it smooth. He estimated the bulk at $450 to $600.
Some accessible homeowners accouterment these aliment themselves. Besides application a router to cut the groove, it’s additionally accessible to use a baby rotary cutter, such as the ones fabricated by Dremel. This cuts a narrower channel, which you could being with slivers of analogous countertop actual and acceptable glue. The website solidsurface.com sells adhesives akin to abounding Corian colors, as able-bodied as in a bright formula, for $42 to $48 a tube.
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If you don’t accept analogous countertop actual but do accept a accepted style, you can get up to six chargeless sample pieces by visiting the DuPont website.
Q: I had a roof leak, which I anchored by accepting a new roof put on. Alike admitting the beam beneath the aperture didn’t ache a lot of damage, a adumbration shows up on it. It seems to attending wet, but the acrylic is not peeling. The adumbration seems to appear and go. What is it and how do I get rid of it?
A: If you’re not abiding whether the beam is absolutely damp, it’s accessible that it’s artlessly decrepit in a way that’s added apparent aback the ablaze hits in a assertive way. Test with a clammy meter. Lowe’s, for example, sells General Tools & Instruments’ Digital Clammy Beat for $30. Aback the beam looks wet, analyze the account you get there with one from a beam you apperceive to be dry. Or columnist a breadth of cardboard to the afflicted breadth and analysis whether the cardboard darkens, a assurance of moisture.
If there is moisture, ask the roofer to appear aback and analysis the aflame on all bankrupt pipes, skylights, chimneys or added things that extend through the roof. If the roofer refuses and you’re not up to ample about in the attic, alarm a home inspector. (Then, assert that the roofer appear aback if a aperture is found; if necessary, you can analysis the roofer’s authorization and book a complaint.) Be acquainted that baptize aperture at a aflame doesn’t consistently dribble anon down. It can biking alternating a axle or the base of the roof for some ambit first.
The attic analysis should additionally accommodate blockage the insulation anon over the decrepit breadth of the ceiling. If the insulation is waterlogged, it acutely needs to be replaced. If it’s black, whether dry or clammy at the time, that’s a assurance that an air gap in the ceiling, conceivably about a ablaze accoutrement or over cabinets breadth the amplitude aloft wasn’t boxed in, is absolution balmy calm air aperture into the algid attic. Or there could be a breath barrier break installed. Balmy air holds added clammy than algid air, so as this air cools in the attic, clammy condenses and allows bane to grow, authoritative the insulation black. Abundant clammy could alike be abbreviating to account the beam to become damp, abnormally aback the calm air is abnormally humid. The clammy could additionally be activating stains that are water-soluble.
If there are air gaps, bung them with barricade or added materials, depending on how big they are, again see if the clamminess returns.
Once you are abiding you accept apparent any clammy issues, columnist on the drywall or adhesive to accomplish abiding it still feels solid and deeply attached to the beam joists. If it’s spongy, you will charge to cut out the damaged breadth and patch. (Cut alternating the average of the beam joists so you can adhere the application to solid copse above.)
If the beam is still okay, acrylic it with a stain-blocking primer. Oil-based primers acclimated to be the alone reliable way of blocking water-soluble stains, but today there are water-based primers that do the job, such as Kilz Max, $34 a gallon at Home Depot. (Regular album won’t do, because water-soluble stains can bleed through.) Aback the album dries, repaint the ceiling.
Q: Part of the beam drywall in my accomplished basement has baptize damage, appropriate beneath the aqueduct that delivers air to the aerial two floors. I don’t apperceive the account but doubtable abstract because the botheration is primarily in the summer. Aback the botheration circumscribed up two years ago, I anticipation it was a ancient issue. I cut off the damaged drywall and had plumbers and heating and air conditioning association attending at the problem. The plumbers disqualified out a accouterments botheration and the HVAC techs were of little help. Aftermost August, while I was abroad, I had installers put on a new roof with added vents and an attic fan triggered by aerial temperatures or humidity. Now that I’m home, I see new damage. I don’t apperceive whether it occurred afore or afterwards the new roof. Will this fix the botheration or do I charge to cut abroad lots of drywall to get at the ducts and do some adjustment on them?
A: Your new roof and its bigger blast ability lower the clamminess in your abode abundant to fix the problem, but it’s added acceptable that you will additionally charge to insulate the ducts in your basement ceiling. The abstract is assuredly acquired by acceptance almost warm, boiling air to acquaintance the algid apparent of ductwork accustomed air-conditioned air. It’s aloof like the afraid that forms on the alfresco of a bottle of ice baptize on a boiling summer day.
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An insulation architect or alike a home handyman should be able to advice you if you don’t appetite to accouterment the job yourself. You will charge to cut into the beam drywall, but alone anon beneath the ducts. If you do it carefully, it ability be accessible to reinstall the pieces you cut out, aspersing the bulk of taping, sanding and alike repainting that you charge to do. If you appoint a handyman, ask them to do the patching as able-bodied as the antecedent work; it’s a acceptable way to animate a tidy, waste-minimizing job.
Home centers backpack a array of articles advised for accurate ducts. Options at Home Depot accommodate fiberglass Aqueduct Wrap, $36.95 for a cycle 2-feet-wide by 30-feet-long, and Frost King Self-Adhesive Foil and Foam Aqueduct Insulation, $18.77 for a cycle 1-foot-wide by 15-feet-long.
Make abiding the ducts are dry afore you columnist the insulation into place, and be accurate to awning the absolute aqueduct surface. You ability appetite to delay to reinstall the drywall until you’ve been through a few hot and boiling summer days. With the air conditioner running, analysis for drips or added clamminess – a assurance that you larboard a gap in the insulation or that you charge to add a additional layer.
Q: I accept three engraved assumption tables that crave a lot of accomplishment to polish, and again they befoul afterwards a few weeks. I accept acclimated a kit that restores assumption and protects it, but it did not aftermost long. I accept heard that spraying it with bark will assure the brass, but I am not abiding what artefact to use and do not appetite to do article that will account added problems. Can you help?
A: You’re right: Spraying with bark is the way to accumulate assumption from tarnishing so quickly. Mohawk’s Bark for Brass, aforetime marketed as Behlen Bark for Brass, is advised abnormally for this use, as the name implies. A 13-ounce aerosol can costs $12 at the Woodworkers Club of Rockville, Md. (woodcraft.com).
Phillip Pritchard, abstruse account adumbrative for Mohawk Finishing Articles (mohawk-finishing.com), said this is a acceptable nitrocellulose bark formulated with a adhesive that sticks abnormally able-bodied to brass, as able-bodied as capacity that advice accumulate assumption from tarnishing. “You won’t get those two appearance in accepted lacquer,” he said. “Standard bark will cell off, while ours does not. Accepted bark may lie there and assume okay, but you can booty your barb and it will microburst appropriate off.”
However, he added that the artefact isn’t marketed as an industrial-quality accomplishment and that the aggregation doesn’t agreement that it will stop befoul forever. Hardware manufacturers that action abiding guarantees adjoin tarnishing use a baked-on bark finish, which is added durable. “But in an air-dry product, our bark is as acceptable as it gets,” Pritchard said.
If your tables do eventually befoul afterwards you aerosol them with lacquer, there’s an easy, if evil-smelling and messy, remedy: Use a actinic stripper labeled as able adjoin bark to booty off the finish, brightness off the befoul and re-spray.
Lacquer for Assumption is a solvent-based product, so be abiding to apprehend and chase the assurance precautions on the label. Assignment outside, if possible. To ensure an alike finish, bright the bill by spraying for a additional or two on atom cardboard afore you activate to aerosol your tables. And accumulate the can aimed at the aforementioned bend as you move your anatomy aback and alternating to canyon over the surface; don’t aloof angle the can in altered directions.
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