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Home Maintenance & Repairs

Home Maintenance & Repairs

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Home maintenance & repairs can be confounding; that's why we created Hometalk. Finally there's a place where you can get honest help with repairs and maintenance from people who have dealt with all kinds of maintenance & repair problems. Hometalk's warm community of homeowners and contractors are often posting home maintenance checklist reminders. Don't make a repair or replace decision without consulting the knowledgeable Hometalk community. Feel free to share your own tips to help debunk maintenance & repairs myths.



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Reclaimed Wood Ceiling- Tips & Tricks

Our big backyard project is done! We added reclaimed wood to our patio ceiling and it turned out great. Come see how a little 'old wood' transformed our outdoor space.
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Crafty Texas Girls Grapevine, TX 1 hour ago
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  • A lovely rental house tour.  http://foreverdecorating.blogspot.com/2013/05/our-rental-house-tour.html
  • A family home tour.  Beautiful dining room.  http://www.dwellings-theheartofyourhome.com/2013/05/hi-sweet-friends-recently-our-home-was.html
  • A tribute to Mom's.  Love the old photographs.  http://coconutheadsurvivalguide.com/mamma-mia/
  • Some great craft glue tips.  http://www.thecraftyblogstalker.com/2012/05/craft-glue-tip.html
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The Fan Favorites From Last Week's Make It Pretty Monday

A couple of house tours, craft tips and a tribute to out Mom's!
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The Dedicated House Cypress, TX 6 hours ago
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  • They are about 2 inches long, black with yellow spots, lots of legs and if you pester them the curl up.

Home Maintenance & Repairs: Bug I.D.?

When I was a kid I used to see these every fall as school was starting the kind of swarmed. Thousands of them died in the gutters when the rains started (and smelled bad). I can't remember their name, nor the folk lore that went with their appearance. Right now there are a fairly large number of them wandering around our property. Anyone know what they are and/or anything else about them?
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Donna Shipley-Richie Mckinleyville, CA 10 hours ago
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Home Maintenance & Repairs: Flies

How do I get rid of those stupid half dozen flies that continually circle on the front porch. They are too low for a hanging fly trap to do any good. Help - I know they will be out there all summer. Thanks in advance.

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Cathy Grans Concord, CA 2 minutes ago
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Home Maintenance & Repairs: My cabinets are pressed wood, swollen from water, how do I repair.

I want to paint them but don't know where tostart or if it is possible to sand them smoothe enough to paint.
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Claudia Thomas Beaufort, SC 2 days ago
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    Like to know what kind of sandpaper please
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Cleaning & Organization: How to get rid of well water stains

my daughter just moved to an area that has well water, i visited her last week, and ask her why was her tub and toilet were so yellow, she told me it might be the water. she has tried ...»
comet, and bleach, that doesn't work. my grand kids don't want to get in the shower, they say it's still dirty. really need help

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Windows

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Home Maintenance & Repairs: Cracked patio

I have a patio that is cracking really bad the one crack is 1/4 in wide so filling it prob wouldn't work does anyone have any ideas how to salvage it?
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p Kirkpatrick Saint Joseph, MO 3 days ago
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  • Try vinegar and water or for really tough stuck on grime - bleach and water 8
  • Broken slats can be repaired easily by swapping it out for a perfectly good one on the bottom.
  • Swap out slats using the same technique used to shorten blinds. Pop off the plastic buttons on the bottom of the blinds.
  • Remove the pull cords up to the broken slat. Replace the slat with one from the bottom.
  • Re-thread the pull cord through all slats, replace plastic buttons on the bottom and presto!! 1
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How to Clean Blinds - the easy way!

Getting the Spring Fever itch? Get a jump start on your spring cleaning with an easy way to clean those icky blinds. #SpringCleaning
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Ellora - Creatively South... Knoxville, TN on Feb 25, 2013
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    time. I' hoping there are lots of you that are smarter than I. hav e10 windows with heavy, brown real wooden blinds and they are always dusty.

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  • When it comes to houses built from the 1960s to late '80s, nothing says "needs updating" quite like popcorn (aka "acoustic" or "cottage cheese") ceilings. 1
  • Popcorn ceilings were the standard for bedroom and residential hallway ceilings for its bright, white appearance, noise reduction qualities and ability to hide imperfections
  • Is there anything nastier than an acoustic popcorn ceiling treatment? It collects dust. Spiders expertly build networks of cobwebs across it, and the worst part? You can't take a broom and wipe off the cobwebs without losing part of your ceiling!

REMOVING A TEXTURED CEILING

Q: How can I remove a textured ceiling in order to paint it?

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projects. A textured or "popcorn" ceiling is essentially styrofoam added to the paint. It is blown on to the ceiling with a gun and hose.To remove first move everything out of the room.

You then have to drape out the room with wall to wall plastic in order to catch everything that falls. It is a mess. Wet the surface with a garden sprayer and let the moisture penetrate the popcorn. Then gently run a scraper through the popcorn. Most of it should come off pretty easily. Be very careful not to scrape into the ceiling.

The resulting gouges would then have to be spackled and sanded.Yet again another mess.Popcorn can successfully be removed but to be safe this probably should be left in the hands of a professional painting contractor. You can easily cause more damage and the mess can spread everywhere if you do not properly prepare.

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Great Home Painting Morrisville, PA on Jan 18, 2013
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    calking in the seam where it meets the wall in place of the tape and spackle. Popcorn is such a mess my son who had a drywall business for years refused to put popcorn on a couple of ceiling I had to have repaired.

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