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How to Install a Sink or Vanity
The sink/vanity is the focal point of a bathroom. That's why bathrooms in many upscale homes feature a double sink, with deluxe tile or even stone for the vanity top.…
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How to Install a New Tub Shower
The existing tub, shower, or combo could be cracked or stained with rust, or the fixture simply could be old-fashioned. As a result, you will want to renovate by putting…
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How to Install a Lined Pond
Before you dig the hole for the pond installation, go around the outside of the proposed pond site, remove a thin layer of turf or topsoil, about 45cm (18in) wide,…
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How to Fix Leaky Plumbing
According to this professional Plumbing Repair | Griffin Service, repairing a leak is actually not a renovation but a maintenance project. However, sometimes just fixing the plumbing helps make the house…
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How to do up Small Spaces in your Home – living with children
Many families with small children have only one living room, the parents' bedroom and another bedroom for one or more children. In small homes such as this, the planning of…
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How to do up Small Spaces in your Home
It seems extravagant to buy three cots in succession, one for the newborn baby, one for the toddler and yet another when a real bed is needed. It can be…
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How to Add Living Space With Using More Concrete
The foundation of the addition is—well, its foundation. The beefier it is, the stronger and longer lasting the addition will be. However, as in the case of improved electrical or…
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How to Decide Which Tile to Use
Tile has been used for floors, walls, countertops, and even ceilings for thousands of years. It was one of the few building materials in the ancient city of Pompeii that…
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How to Decide What You Want in a Bathroom
You want to create a bathroom that's particularly suited to your needs, all the while not creating something so weird that it will make reselling the home difficult, if not…
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How to Choose the Pipes for your Bathroom
I have a confession, which by now shouldn't seem too shocking, and that is this: Not everything runs perfectly in my home. Every time I'm in the kitchen and one…
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How to Lay Drains
The techniques for bedding drainpipes on the bottom of the trench and for filling in the trench afterward depend to some extent on the type of soil and the attitude…
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How to Lay a Chipboard Floor
A wide range of flooring grade of chipboards is available: ask a local timber merchant for information about the variations in surface finish, edge finish -and the size of sheets…
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How to Insulate Your Roof
Your loft is either lined or open such that you can see the whole structure. The latter is still the most common, although more and more people are undertaking loft…
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How to Construct a Concrete Pond
A lot of fairly strenuous work is involved in creating a pond in concrete. You will need to mix the sand and cement and then transport barrowsful of the stuff…
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How to Repair a Lean-to Roof
Lots of different types of materials can be used to cover a lean-to roof. Conservatories, carports and covered ways are often covered with corrugated translucent plastic sheets which allow natural…
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How to Replace Gutter Boards
Gutter Cleaning is essential to the your homes foundation. A good company like edwards gutter cleaning services offers a variety of services to make sure your home is looking excellent!…
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How to Nail
As a rule-of-thumb when joining something very thin to something much thicker, use a nail 2-1/2 to 3 times longer than the thickness of the thinner material. When the thicknesses…
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How to Replace a Suspended Ground Floor
Replacing a suspended floor with a solid one is generally a fairly straightforward job. However, if the depth of fill required exceeds about 600mm, or if there is a marked…
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How to Repair More Severe Damage to a Finish
Chips and holes in a varnished or french polished surface can be built up by applying a 'touch-in' of the same finish in the depression, letting it dry, and adding…
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How to Repair Pitched Roof
The timber rafters of most pitched roofs measure 100 x 50mm. On roofs less than about 30 years old, the rafters are covered with roofing felt a type called reinforced…