To my mind old fashioned hardwood floors are far more trouble than they are worth, especially now that we have better and better Engineered Floors available. An engineered floor is not a cheap plastic laminate on masonite floating floor. It is a very stable, usually pre-finished, real massive h...
There are a number of appliances around the house that have user or trade adjustable temperatures and it is not always simple to get them right.Hot Water HeatersMost Hot Water heaters for domestic hot water are factory set to 66deg C. ( 150F ). This is actually hot enough to scald someone so legi...
It surprised me to discover that most of the raw gypsum material used by Westroc Canada to make drywall comes from the "scrubbers" on the top of the power plant smoke stacks, and the rest comes from re-cycled boards. Yes, cleaning up air pollution produces a very pure gypsum that ends up on our ...
We went to the Robertson screw factory in Montreal to see in detail how a reel of wire steel gets cut and formed into many different types of screws, including the famous Robertson square socket head.
They cut the wire to the length of two screws, often very different screws but the same wire si...