Found 444 results for the keyword ‘Techniques’
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Tooling caulking & Straight line adhesive application
Tooling Caulking Brad, who works in the trade of caullking high rise buildings, sent in the tip of dipping a shaped piece of wood into Sunlight detergent before tooling the caulking. This gives the caulking the exact shape you want, but nothing sticks to the wooden tool. Note that his tool is n... -
How do you balance a ceiling fan so it won't wobble?
Oh how many times has the wobbling ceiling fan driven you crazy. Sometimes it is acceptable on one speed but not another. Sometimes it just click, click, clicks so badly that you can't get to sleep. Fixing it is easy, but not fast. There are a large number of things that could be wrong so work yo... -
Tying Knots -- Joining two different sized ropes
Boy Scout, Shawn Carter came on my TV show to teach me some useful knots. The one in the photo is how to get two very different ropes to tie together. Make a loop in the end of one of the ropes. Thread the other rope into the loop, around the two pieces of the first rope and back out through th... -
Oil Spill response
Oil spills in water can be a real problem -- ranging from oil in your swimming pool, to around a boat dock or serious spills from commercial vessels. Old techniques try to contain the oil, but wave action can sabatoge that. Dispersents have proved to cause more problems than they solve. New te... -
Laying counter, floor, wall or shower tiles in a professional manner
It may surprise you to hear that despite silicone sealants and the like, neither the grout between ceramic tiles nor the tiles themselves are actually moisture or vapour proof. Wherever water can sit on a tiled surface, or steam can soak into grout, the wood below can be destroyed by moisture see... -
Header Flashing End Dams for Windows and Doors
Welcome to the Eakes' Origami Guide to the Building Code -- or "how to actually build new flashing requirements in the building code". Water leaking in around windows and doors represents one of our major construction problems. The building codes seem to be constantly changing in an effort to mi... -
Pro: Air Entrained Concrete
Concrete, outdoors in the Canadian climate, has a particularly difficult time surviving. Walkways, patios, driveways and the like must have as much as 4 to 6 inches of gravel as a drainage base to minimize the effects of shifting from frost movement in the soil. Drainage around these areas has to...
Oscillating Tools
