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How to Repair Exterior Cedar Siding

 One of a traditional exterior building material that can beautify and protects any addition of your house is cedar siding. The cedar siding can adds a lot of richness and warmth to your home's exterior. Even though the cedar siding is also water resistant and durable, over time it still can be damaged due to ...

How to Mark the Wall for Siding Repair

 Most of the time house owners are required to do repair work on the siding of their house due to the weather elements or even because of occasional item that hits the side of the house like a fallen tree. In order to repair your exterior siding, it does not involve the task of replacing ...

How to Replace Exterior Siding

 If you notice that your clapboards or shakes are damaged or broken, your exterior siding will no longer be able to do a good job and need to be replaced with a new one. It can no longer prevent air, water, dirt or even insects from penetrating into your walls. It can also allow decay ...

How to Sell Reclaimed Wood Flooring

 You can simply look for reclaimed wood flooring not only when you are remodeling your very own floorboards of your home, but also from abandoned factories or rural buildings, mills and condemned properties. If you find that the woods are still in good condition, you can even use it to add more character to your ...

How to Install Exterior Vinyl Siding

 Most of us like to install vinyl siding in order to cover the exterior of our house. The reason for using vinyl is because it is designed to hang loosely from the side of the house that allows the expansion of temperature and contraction without damaging the siding or even the house. Apart from that, ...

How to Reuse Old Wood Pallets

 One of the ways for you to go green within your house is by reusing your old wood pallets that is also an inexpensive method to apply them in your house. Your old wood pallets can contribute a lot in order for you to create a green concept house. For example, you could reuse a ...

How to Use Wood From Old Barns

 If you have old barn woods that are still in good condition and no rot has set into the wood, it is always a good material for you to recycle and make it into good use. The old planks and batten strips covering the old structures are normally much thicker, stronger and having dense nature ...

How to Prep Old Lumber for Use

 Most of us like to use or even keep old lumber that is still in good condition to decorate their house and provide attractive addition to the living area. However, each of the board or lumber need to be carefully inspected or even trimmed so that you can remove any damaged sections. If you have ...

How to Finish Basement Walls & Ceilings

 Whenever you decide to finish the basement walls and ceilings of your home, you need to take into consideration a lot of thing such as whether you want to the turn the basement into one large finished area or even to segregate the area into various sections. Always decide to use the right kind of ...

How to Keep Spiders Out of Outside Boxes

Although we feel that spiders are always annoying to us, you will be surprised to know that it is also beneficial to human being because it helps you eliminate common outdoor pests like flies, mites and fleas. Most of us definitely do not like spiders crawling in the surrounding of our house or even if ...

How to Add an In-Law Apartment at Home

 There are lots of people nowadays often finding themselves in a situation where parents or in-laws are living with them either because of financial constraint or even for health-related reasons. If cases like this happen, you have to consider converting your existing room for instance the garage or basement into your in-laws apartment in order ...

How to Be Aware of the Refrigerator Safety Act

 Whenever we buy a new appliance, an electrical appliance, we don't tend to ask about its safety act regulations. Any safety act regulation is set up by the government for the safety of consumers. The same goes for refrigerators. The refrigerator safety act has been set up by the government to make sure that the ...

How to Sandblast Sheet Metal

Normally we will be using sheet metal to create various types of do-it-yourself home projects, but if the sheet metal has been idle around your house for quite some time, it can be damaged by rust along with other caked-on dirt and debris. Once it has been affected by rust, it would be very difficult ...

How to Use Tyvek on Finished Basement Walls

Tyvek is a product manufactured by DuPont. It is a protective air and vapor barriers normally used for residential especially in the basement area or on the outside of your house underneath all finished exterior. It is designed to protect the area that you have installed with Tyvek from water, wind and any other weather ...

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