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How continued shoulda baptize boiler last?
Q I accept a tank-type electric baptize boiler that is abandoned 6 years old, but afresh has been putting out abandoned a baby bulk of hot water. Do I charge a new baptize boiler so soon? A Your baptize boiler needs a adjustment but should not be accessible for the clutter heap. Baptize heaters about accept activity spans of 10 to 15 years, but I accept accepted of electric baptize heaters that lasted appreciably best if able-bodied maintained and if the baptize affection is not destructive. The botheration with your boiler is apparently a burned-out heating element. Most electric baptize heaters accept two elements, one abreast the basal of the catchbasin and one about centermost up.
Most of the baptize heating is done by the lower element, and that is apparently the one that is defective. Replacing a burned-out aspect can be a do-it-yourself job, but you shouldn't try it unless you accept a chiral for the boiler with step-by-step instructions. Anniversary of the elements usually has a baby admission bowl on the ancillary of the heater. You should never boggle with them unless you aboriginal about-face off the electricity to the heater, and an aspect should not be removed after aboriginal axis off the baptize to the boiler and clarification the tank. Removing and replacing an aspect usually requires a appropriate atrium wrench. The ability to the boiler should never be angry aback on until the catchbasin is refilled with water. If you don't accept a chiral or are in agnosticism about any allotment of the procedure, it is best to alarm a water-heater technician. Although it is acceptable that the lower aspect is austere out, a artisan will accept accoutrement to analysis it and accomplish sure.
Use framing connectorsto abstain catchy toe-nailing Q I appetite to body the framing for a brace of allotment walls to catechumen ample apartment into abate rooms. I've consistently had agitation with framing, abnormally aback I accept to do what is alleged toe-nailing. Any tips? A Whether you are architecture partitions, a deck, a account afford or about any added activity that requires framing, you will get faster and stronger after-effects if you use framing connectors at the joints. The accouterments are fabricated of able animate in abounding configurations to clothing assorted framing needs, and you can acquisition a acceptable alternative of them at about any home center.
One of my admired connectors is a allotment of able animate about 3 inches wide, angled into a right-angle shape, with holes for the short, blubbery nails acclimated with the connectors. If you are installing a bank stud, for example, attach one border of one of these connectors to anniversary end, put the stud in place, and attach the added border to the acknowledging structure.
You can annihilate toe-nailing with these connectors, and you are not abandoned in award toe-nailing catchy (toe-nailing involves active nails at an bend into the end of a allotment such as a stud, afresh active the nails added into the acknowledging structure). There are variations on the simple L-shaped adapter I like. Simpson, a arch architect of connectors, makes one that has tabs with nailing holes. Another adapter that I begin acutely advantageous is the axle hanger.
Many decks, sheds and allowance additions are absorbed to absolute barrio with a alleged balance lath -- a thick, able axle to which the ends of joists are attached. A axle hanger forms a able animate abridged for anniversary axle -- again, no toe-nailing needed. Post supports, which drag the cheers of posts to accumulate baptize from adulteration them, are additionally advantageous connectors. There isn't amplitude actuality to altercate the abounding added accessible connectors, but any do-it-yourselfer cerebration of starting a architecture activity would do able-bodied to appointment a home centermost or building-supply aperture and analysis out the advanced array of connectors available.
QUICK TIPS:
1. Protruding attach heads, generally alleged popped nails, can be a benumbed hazard on some copse decks. Shrinkage and added movement in the copse can account the nails to beetle abundant to account an accident. The simple band-aid is to batter the nails aback into place. Before accomplishing so, however, appraise them to accomplish abiding they are not decayed or corroded. Deteriorated nails should be replaced with either new nails or accouter screws. If new nails are used, get hot-dipped galvanized nails, which accept a hardly chapped actualization from galvanizing. Screws are a bigger choice, but use abandoned appropriate weather-resistant accouter screws. Either nails or screws should access the joists beneath the accessory by at atomic 1 1/2 inches.
2. If a double-hung window with tilt-in sashes becomes difficult to accelerate up and bottomward for ventilation, try this adjustment of lubricating it: Tilt in the averse bandage all the way. Spray a little silicone adipose or WD-40 on a pad of cardboard towels and clean the edges of the bandage with the lubricant. Additionally clean the clue in which the bandage slides. Now abutting the bandage and accelerate it up and bottomward a few times to administer the lubricant. This analysis sometimes works actual well, sometimes abandoned so-so, but it consistently seems to help.
3. Affective abundant appliance over carpets can be a back-straining task. I able a abundant sofa, bed and added appliance with several types of leg pads that were declared to affluence the task, but none formed actual able-bodied until I bought a set of Everbilt Movealls at Home Depot. These are disks about 4 inches in diameter, with a glossy apparent on one ancillary and a band of bendable adaptable actual on the other. The disks are placed slick-side bottomward beneath the appliance legs, and the legs anon bore into the adaptable actual to booty a close grip. With a set of these disks in place, affective a sofa, bed or added abundant allotment of appliance is like blame it over ice. I paid about $8 for a amalgamation of eight disks, and aback I saw how able-bodied they formed I went aback for more. The aforementioned aggregation additionally makes disks for balk floors, which I haven't approved yet.
-- BY GENE AUSTIN/ McClatchy-Tribune News Service
