Found 10 results for the keyword ‘Attachments’
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How to install a full size mirror on a hollow door.
With a "hollow door fastener", of course. Actually they used to say that on the package, but now they are just called "anchors". I remember when they went by the name "molly bolts".For these fasteners, you drill a moderate sized hole in the door, then insert the fastener. You push its teeth in... -
How do you build a deck with vertical 6x6's that twist?
If a 6x6 or 4x4 wants to twist, it will do so and you can do little to stop it. However you can decide which end will twist!Buried pillarsIf you bury the 6x6 into a concrete pillar, the bottom will be fixed and the top will move, perhaps before you get around to locking in the rest of the deck f... -
Hanging things on outside walls, without bothering the siding.
I have had a few inquiries about how to attach things to outside walls, like signs, wires and Christmas lights without causing any damage.For a brick wall there is a wonderful gadget called the Brick Clip that simply has a spring on the bottom and teeth on the top which grab a brick by inserting ... -
Hanging things in high places
Joe and Debbie sent in this tip.Use a large clothes-pin style clip, used for clampping or lamp attachment. Grip it onto the end of a plastic pipe. Now you can slide that right up to catch plant hooks, allowing you to lift them up to or down from high places.Oh, the gadget I had for watering han... -
Tip -- Nailing straight is often not the best way to nail.
How about some nailing tips.If you are putting several nails in the end of the board, do not line them up on the same grain line. The accumulative effect of forcing their way through the wood will certainly split the wood. Stagger them so that each is on a different grain line and you have less... -
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... -
Attaching a deck to a house
The old days of stacking structure In the old days, before we had specialized hardware like joist hangers, we would always create beams, or low lying ledger boards and place the joists on top of them with some kind of toe-nail attachment. The arrival of joist hangers When joist hangers came in... -
Drilling & Replacing ceramic tiles -- even with your own photo
DRILLING A TILE When you want to hang something on ceramic tiles you will need to drill a hole. Regular metal cutting twist bits will not cut through the hard ceramic face, and in fact the ceramic material itself will destroy such a bit. You need to use a bit that has a carbide head.... -
WHAT IS OIL DOWNSIZING?
One morning the oil furnace and boiler companies woke up to discover they were the Canadian bad guys -- everybody was condemning oil burning heating and the government was even paying people to scrap them. The oil furnace and boiler companies had to admit that they had been pretty contented and l...
Techniques for Installing Drywall