When the caulking in the cartridge is still soft enough to squeeze the outside of the tube but all hardened up in the tip, try using your electric drill to cut a passageway through to the sill soft stuff. If the hard stuff doesn't go too far for your drill to reach, or the nozzle is not cracked ...
Last year we showed a viewer tip on putting washers behind the electrical box outlet mounting bracket to hold the outlet firmly forward when the electrical box had been mounted too deep in the wall. Dwight sent us another way to do it that is actually easier than playing with a pile of washers.D...
Tyler from Toronto, Ontario suggests that when a door hinges screw hole is warn out you can glue in match sticks to fill the hole and then put the screw back in.Match sticks, tooth picks, with and without glue have been used for years to tighten up screw holes. Sometimes simply putting a single ...
You have drilled a hole for a door handle and now discover you need a larger hole. One method is to completely plug up the old hole so that the pilot bit of the hole saw has something to centre into. One of our viewers sent in the idea of taking a dowel the size of the existing hole and simply ...
John in Aurora, Ontario has to delay work on his basement renovation and wants to know how he can store 10 sheets of drywall without having it warp.Good question, because especially if there is much moisture in that basement stacked drywall can take on some permanent curves. If you simply sit it...
Several TV viewers came up with ways to protect the teeth of our saws.One slides a slit length of garden hose over the saw blade.Another plunges a narrow drywall saw right into the hose itself without a slit.Yet another uses school report binders to slide over the teeth.There is actually a profes...
No one ever reads the instruction books, even when they are written in something similar to English. But there are some gems of wisdom in there if you wanted to take the time.Burrs on drill bitsTake a look at the drill bit in the first photo. Does that burr on the side look familiar to you? Di...
Wish you could just sweep your shavings into a hole in the floor?You can almost do that by installing a vacuum floor head on the wall as in the photo. Then you just turn on the vacuum and sweep into the slot.These are available in the central vacuum section of renovation centres.
George from Edmonton, Alberta has a way of slowing down the evaporation of water from any drain that is rarely used, and hence put off the appearance of sewer odours in that room. He simply pours a thin layer of oil over the top of the water in the drain. Any oil will work, but mineral oil will...
Rob from Clinton, Ontario has a great suggestion for getting those fine steel wool fibers out of the wood before finishing. Wrap a strong magnet in a clean cloth and simply wipe over the area.Removing the cloth from the magnet allows you to shake the little pieces of steel wool into the garbage c...
