As the season change, our tastes change as well and this applies to our homes. When we have a house, it's not fun to leave it as it is forever. Some people love change. Some people can't stand seeing the same thing every day. It isn't fun to see the same thing every day in ...
Installing an Electrical Breaker Switch in a Breaker Box
Electric components are tricky to install. Many of us don't know much of how electric functions. The ones who know are lucky and know their way around.Whenever you open up the front cover of your breaker box, you will be able to see a small black switch known as breakers. Breakers are used for replacing ...
Making Placemats for Christmas
Making Easy Table Decorations for Thanksgiving
In order to create an easy table decoration for Thanksgiving into your house, you should be using autumn colors, fall foliage, and colorful fruits of the fall seasons so that you will be having an impressive Thanksgiving dinner centerpiece table. Other items that you can use are natural things that relate to the season and ...
Ideas for Decorating Your Kitchen for Christmas
One of the rooms in your house that you should never forget to decorate during Christmas is the kitchen room especially if you are spending a lot of your time in the room preparing for your Thanksgiving feast. If you think about it most people tend to forget to decorate their kitchens during festive season.Even ...
Removing a Fluorescent Tube
Almost every household in the world uses fluorescent lights because it provides a lot of light especially during the night and uses less electricity. The fluorescent lights is also like any other bulb, which needs to be replaced after a long time of usage and if the bulb is burned-out. The fluorescent bulbs work once ...
Drilling an Aluminum Pipe
Aluminum is a versatile material and it is commonly used in almost in every industry as well as in your household. Aluminum is made out of a light material, abundant and binds very well with oxygen, plus it is found normally in medicines, packaging, home buildings, cars, trains and airplanes. That is why the spacecraft ...
Measuring chlorine for hot tubs
Reading a Fluke Meter
A fluke meter can be used to measure voltage, current and resistance. A fluke meter is quite easy to understand, but it is not in everyone's understanding to really get what electric instruments are about especial if they are as complicated as fluke meters. There are ways in which one can properly read and understand ...
Selecting the Best Outdoor Christmas Lights
Whenever the Christmas celebration mood is just around the corner, we would always try to light up the occasion with the right holiday spirits by trimming or decorating the Christmas tree along with colorful lights. This not only adds color to your exterior home surroundings, but it is also for your neighbors to enjoy celebrating ...
Removing an Odor From a Swamp Cooler
Converting a Plug to a Junction Box
You need to convert an existing plug-in outlet into a junction box when the need arises for you to build new cabinets within the area. The junction box must be easily accessible and covered for safety reason.What you need:Voltage testerPhillips screwdriverLinesman pliers3 wire nuts (caps)Electrical tapeJunction box plateJunction BoxMethod:Firstly, you need to shut off the ...
Renewing 6 Volt Batteries
Checking Continuity With an Ohmmeter
It is very important to keep one updated with the continuity if an ohmmeter. It is an electrical instrument that technically measures electrical resistance. The electrical resistance happens to be the opposition to an electric current. For low resistance measurements, microhmmeter would be the right direction for that. For measuring large values of resistance, the ...