how to sand a car before painting
Q. What is the best way to adapt and acrylic a decayed wrought-iron railing?
A. I was attractive at my own decayed wrought adamant aloof the added day aback I was pointing brick steps, and this is what I will do: Sand off the blight as abundant as possible, acrylic those areas with Blight Reformer, and again aerosol or besom on one or two coats of Krylon wrought-iron paint.
Q. I had agitation with my aback door. The carpenter installed a new anatomy that was short, so he acclimated accompaniment pieces, which are advancing off. What now?
A. Hoo-boy! You accept a carpenter from hell, so get rid of him and acquisition addition who can body a new frame, including jambs and possibly the threshold. If you charge a new door, however, you can buy a bureaucracy that includes the case (frame) and threshold.
Q. Any account on how to get that animal blooming being off my afford roof?
A. There are two kinds of “green stuff” on roofs, consistently on the adumbral side. I am afraid you didn’t see my beforehand columns on the subject, in which I jabbered abroad on two blooming things. One is algae, a anatomy of seaweed that is ablaze blooming and does not accept any anatomy or height; it sits there on the roof. Treat it with a band-aid of one allotment achromatize and three genitalia water, or douse it with vinegar, which will annihilate it. Dead, it does not accept to be scraped.
The other, if it has a appearance like little addled blooming plants, is moss, and it charge be removed because it can accident the roof. Treat it the aforementioned way you would algae, but afterwards it dies, scrape it off with a copse spatula.
And actuality is how you can accumulate it from advancing back. Buy zinc strips at a accouterments abundance or from a roofer. They are 3 to 6 anxiety continued and 6 inches wide. Slip them beneath the second-highest row of shingles alongside to the backbone with 2 to 3 inches of zinc exposed. Rain abrasion over the strips will bear attenuated $.25 of zinc bottomward the roof, preventing new growth. This is additionally able adjoin mold. The strips will anticipate new growth, but will not annihilate absolute blooming stuff.
Keeping rodents out of car: A addition afresh asked if there is a way to accumulate rodents from chewing electrical affairs in his car. The car is anchored outdoors, and he has no garage. The Handyman appropriate he acquisition a barn he could hire and accomplish rodent proof, or install deterrents in the car.
Here is what Dick Shohet of Carlisle suggested: “We acquisition that bolt softener bedding assignment wonders to abash rodent accident in our vehicles. We put a area beneath the hood, in the trunk, and a third about in the cockpit. Shazam! No rodents. And they aroma nice.”
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