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Q: You accept helped me so abounding times with problems in my abode and now I accept addition one. The faucet in my bath gets atramentous band about it. I alleged a plumber and he said it’s because I charge a new faucet. I said, “OK, amuse install a new faucet,” but that did not break the problem. The atramentous band continues to appear. I anticipate it’s from toothpaste. I accept two bathrooms, but this one bath faucet is the alone one that continues to accept this problem. I would adulation your advice. Thanks. A loyal reader. — via email
A: Is the atramentous band like a stain or is it absolutely some array of actual that can be acclaim removed with a knife?
If it is a alternating stain, try removing it with an old besom and a balmy ammonia solution. Achromatize wipes additionally assignment well, but never use any achromatize with ammonia; the aggregate after-effects in the accumulation of a blazon of alacrity gas that is actual dangerous.
But if it is a adopted substance, it needs to be articular to actuate what can be done about it. Try addition accountant plumber who has been about a continued time.
Q: My wife sprayed-painted some children’s appliance appliance Rust-Oleum Ultra Cover Acrylic and Primer — actualization drupe pink!!! Needless to say, she didn’t assure the adhesive barn attic able-bodied so it bled through the newspaper. What can she do (she, not I) to abolish the blush acrylic from the floor? Thank you. — Shelburne, via email
A: Accept your wife try to abolish the acrylic with a doughy acrylic remover. It may booty added than one application.
Q: How do I apple-pie my brick-sided home of ivy, accurately the tendrils that are absorbed to the bricks?
I adulation the aftereffect of the ivy, but charge it akin aback and cleaned. I don’t anticipate that pressure-washing would get rid of the tendrils. — Ligonier, Pennsylvania
A: You can bake the tendrils off with a baby propane torch, which you can buy in a accouterments abundance if you don’t already own one. Aloof be accurate not to get too abutting to any copse or plastic. You may charge to accept a metal absorber on duke to assure any combustible actual if you charge to get abutting to it. Use able gloves.
Q: We are about to re-do our accouter with AZEK accessory material, and now we’ve apprehend in the bi-weekly about the lawsuits adjoin this company. We plan to ask our bounded barge aggregation and our architect if they are acquainted of any problems. We are not appliance the Brownstone color. We accept alleged Sedona in their Terra collection.
Do you accept any added admonition that may be accessible in authoritative our accommodation on abstracts afore we proceed? Amuse acknowledge as anon as accessible because the abstracts may already be ordered, and assignment is appointed aural a few weeks. Thank you. — Grand Haven, Michigan, via email
A: I accept no new admonition added than what you apprehend in this cavalcade that triggered your question. I can’t acquaint you if Sedona will accept the problems that Brownstone blush has.
Since the actual may already accept been ordered, any advancement seems futile. But the old standby — pressure-treated copse — is still about and has been time-tested over abounding decades.
Trex, a constructed material, has additionally been about for absolutely a continued time, and has a acceptable clue record.
Q: Recently you mentioned in one of your columns (which I accept somehow misplaced) the names of a brace of tub refinishing businesses that accept acceptable reputations. Could you amuse brace my anamnesis on the names? Thank you. — Northern Illinois, via email
A: I anticipate that you are apropos to a catechism from a clairvoyant who capital to accept her bathtub relined by Bath Fitter, but, to her dismay, Bath Fitter would not do aloof the tub; it insisted on accomplishing the walls as well. Addition clairvoyant emailed me that they had a agnate botheration with Bath Fitter and begin addition firm, Re-Bath, which did a abundant job for them.
Q: I accept a home that is 3 years old. I accept a screened-in balustrade activity out from the kitchen. I accept a walk-out basement.
The 4-inch posts acknowledging the balustrade are treated. Should I put annihilation on them to bottle them or is there any aliment that should be done? The backyard sprinkler does hit it daily.
Thank you for your abundant columns. I am a widow, and I apprentice a lot from them. -- via email
A: If the posts are pressure-treated, there is no charge to do annihilation to them. But you can administer a covering of Amteco TWP Series 1500 on them to accord them added aegis and change their actualization (www.amteco.com).
GREAT SUGGESTION FROM A READER: “For years I approved abounding articles for charwoman our gutters. None to my satisfaction. What we begin is a artefact alleged Awesome. The best part, you can acquisition it in a dollar store. My wife and I use it everywhere about the barn and house. The architect states it should not be acclimated on windows or glassware. Simply put, it is awesome.” — North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Q: Thank you for the invaluable apprenticeship on home adjustment problems. I accept two issues that charge attention:
1. I’d like to abolish my Approach Helmet blade guards, but I alternate because they are busted in every 18 to 24 inches anon through the shingles. Removal will apparently account accident and leakage. Would installing bartering gutters and abrogation the guards in abode be a accessible solution? There should be abundant amplitude for baptize to breeze into the approach against overshooting the roof.
2. My basement sump pump runs always due to a aerial baptize table or underground spring. My neighbors do not accept basements, and it seems all of the baptize is fatigued to the everyman point — my basement. It is bright and algid and the french cesspool burst afterwards 17 years and the backyard is a sinkhole. Since my pump runs so generally normally, in abundant rains my basement floods.
Water on the basement attic is abundant to accord with, but the aftermost boundless rain acquired the window able-bodied drains to aback up. The acute baptize burden afflicted baptize amid the drywall and basement ambit walls assimilation the insulation. The pipes and drains are not clogged. What can I do? Would a advancement analysis valve allay the problem?
Note: Addition antecedent of bee home invasions are approach guards — their nests are hidden underneath. — via email
A: If you accept the brand Approach Helmet, it can be taken off, and the holes larboard afterwards the brackets are removed can be closed by bottomward a baby allotment of aluminum beneath the top shingle. Secure the aluminum pieces with a dab of polyurethane caulking or beam cement.
Checking its website, the Approach Helmet bracket seems to blow on the advanced of the gutter, so it does not assume accessible to leave the Helmet on while alteration to bartering gutters.
Your basement baptize problems are austere abundant to accreditation able advice. I advance that you alarm in a able architect who is accomplished in hydraulics, rather than a architect who specializes in waterproofing basements and whose article will be to advertise you a arrangement that may be a Band-Aid and not absolutely booty affliction of the botheration at the source.
There may charge to be brand changes, but if the majority of your botheration is due to an underground bounce or a aerial baptize table, brand changes may alone action a baby relief.
You may charge added than one sump pump, or you may charge to change castigation to a pump of college capacity.
Thank you for the agenda about how bees and wasps can access a house. If they body nests beneath a approach guard, they can access the attic through the baby amplitude usually begin amid the roof capsule and fascia board.
Q: This summer (for the aboriginal time in 36 years in this house) we noticed actual small, raised, aphotic gray spots on our patio furniture, fiberglass basin rim, board accouter rail, etc. The spots assume to be the aftereffect of article that was windborne (perhaps spores) based on the administration pattern. Those genitalia of the patio appliance that faced the wind seemed to be the areas best affected. These spots are absolutely adamantine and absurd to remove. Back aching off the vinyl straps of the patio appliance and corrective accouter railings, they larboard abaft a actual arresting gray discoloration. The alone abode area I could auspiciously abolish them was from the top of the bottle patio table. Do you accept any abstraction what these are and what I can use to abolish them? — via email
A: From your description -- raised, gray aphotic spots that are adamantine to abolish -- it sounds actual abundant like a case of arms fungus. Arms bane develops in the bounce and abatement back the temperature is appropriate for the accumulation of the spores, which are allotment of the atomization of assertive types of amoebic mulch. The spores are attempt abundant distances, which is why they are alleged arms fungus. They acreage on any apparent and stick so adamantine that it is about absurd to abolish them afterwards damaging it.
Do you accept amoebic admixture nearby? The spores may accept exploded and been transported by the wind if the two contest happened at the aforementioned time.
A Pennsylvania clairvoyant has had success cat-and-mouse until the bane freezes to abolish the dots with a artificial scraper.
Q: Is Lowe’s Rescue It agnate to or does it accept the aforementioned problems as Home Depot’s Deckover? — via email
A: Rescue It is a artefact of Olympic Stains. The reviews are mixed; those who acclimated the artefact on their alfresco decks seemed to be best disappointed, as Rescue It bald afterwards a winter’s acknowledgment to the elements.
I accept heard from abounding readers over the years who accept approved a array of solid blush stains and paints on exoteric copse surfaces alone to be faced with case problems. In my opinion, the best accouter treatments are those that access — semi-transparent stains.
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