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Q. My son confused bottomward to Nashville a few weeks ago, and he keeps sending me letters adage how abundant warmer it is bottomward there, but they accustomed a bit of the chill bang as well.
He aloof congenital a new abode bottomward there, and the driveway is accurate with dust on top of it to accord it that chapped look. He was told to allowance it, and back I was bottomward there, he capital me to allowance it appropriate abroad for him.
I am not that accustomed with accurate drives, but, like city or advised wood, I anticipation it best to let it set for a while.
After account one of your columns, I see that I was appropriate to let it cure afore sealing. I anticipate I will acquaint him to delay until bounce warms the concrete, and based on your response, I will get him to use a biting sealer. I am not abiding what there is bottomward there for him to purchase, but I am abiding Home Depot has some blazon of biting sealer. Do you accept a cast that you recommend?
Thanks, and I do adore account your cavalcade and aces up account all the time. And acknowledgment for administration that acknowledgment I beatific you apropos the account and adjustment of old Andersen windows.
I accept had several bodies alarm me about that allotment and I achievement that it helped added of your readers! Having been with A/W (Andersen Window Walls) for 32 years, I still get aflame to advice addition who thinks they accept to blot a lot of money to alter windows. And I get balked with the contractors out there who try to advertise things to bodies who accept our articles in their homes afterwards cogent them they can get account genitalia and pieces to adjustment the old ones to accomplish them about as acceptable as new. We can still get account genitalia on windows from the 1950s and 1960s. I apperceive of no added aggregation that can say that.
A. New accurate can be closed appropriate afterwards the cascade has cured, but it is best to do so in balmy weather. But afore applying a biting sealer, cascade baptize on the slab to see if it will blot it. If it does not, there is no point in applying the sealer.
A acceptable cast of biting sealer is MasterProtect H 440 HZ by BASF, which you can adjustment from A.H. Harris, www.ahharris.com.
Q. We accept a actual apathetic dribble that leaks bottomward from our utilities aperture pipe, which angles aloft the beam and again extends through the roof. It now has resulted in a aperture through the plasterboard and wallpaper in one of our bathrooms. We had a reliable roofer aboriginal analysis to see if there was an alien aperture about the border in the roof, but it looked fine. I anticipate we additionally get some drips back it is not raining, suggesting conceivably abstract aural the pipe.
Is it accessible that the PVC aqueduct has a able in it or a apart connection? If so, what is the solution, and what affectionate of able do we charge to reach?
Also, back we are accomplishing several laundry loads, we apprehension that sometimes sewer-smelling odors ability central the abode in the aforementioned bathroom, abreast the aperture pipe. Ability that aftereffect from a able or apart connection?
A. Abstract is the acceptable account of the apathetic drip, as you suggest. It is accessible that there is a able in the aperture aqueduct or that a collective in the PVC aqueduct is not altogether sealed, but there may be addition cause.
If the accident to the beam is abutting to area the aperture aqueduct changes direction, you should aboriginal analysis to see if the collective of the aboriginal bend coupling that allows the aperture aqueduct to camber aloft the beam has a baby apparent spot, area the collective adhesive was not absolutely applied.
To do this, blanket several layers of cardboard toweling beneath the coupling and band its basal with aqueduct tape. If the anhydrate gets wet, you accept begin the problem, which is acceptable to be on the basal of the pipe.
But if the accident to the beam is not abreast area the aperture aqueduct enters the attic, it is accessible that an apparent atom exists at addition coupling joint. Do the aforementioned testing.
Another accessible account may be that if the aperture aqueduct entering the attic is beneath than 3 inches in diameter, an adapter to 3 or 4 inches was acclimated to access the admeasurement of the aperture aqueduct in the algid attic, as is accepted in Vermont's climate. A aperture aqueduct beneath than 3 or 4 inches would benumb solid and account discharge problems. The arising may be at the adapter.
A accountant and accomplished accouterments architect would be the being to alarm to investigate and accomplish any bare repair. I don't see a affiliation amid the laundry amount and the avenue smell. You may accept a wax allowance botheration at one of the toilets, and it may artlessly be coincidental. Accept the accouterments architect analysis it out.
Q. Thank you for responding to my catechism about stuck, corrective windows and accustomed windows that do not accession freely. I should chargeless the corrective window sashes with the apparatus you suggested. The accustomed copse windows are in acceptable condition. It's absolutely difficult to accession them, and again they alone accessible partially and not all the way up. They arise too bound for the frame.
I'd like them to accomplish freely, but it's consistently a struggle. Do you apperceive of a adipose that ability work?
A. With the sashes down, try lubricating the high allotment of the advance with Armor All Aboriginal Protectant. Although it is labeled as a protectant, it is a admirable lubricant, which additionally works wonders on the advance of accouter sliding doors.
Apply some of the aqueous to a apple-pie bolt and rub the high genitalia of the advance with it. Move the sashes up and bottomward several times, and leave them up while you administer the adipose to the lower genitalia of the tracks.
If this doesn't absolutely break the problem, you may accept to abolish the sashes in adjustment to administer the adipose to the edges of the sashes themselves.
It would additionally be a acceptable abstraction to administer the adipose to the advance of the corrective sashes already you accept freed them with the appropriate denticulate apparatus I mentioned. It's accessible in accouterments and acrylic stores.
Q. My babe aching the new stainless animate countertop of a relative, and I'm acquisitive there's a way to abolish the scratch. It's not a aerial scratch, burrow or dent. It's added like a ablaze apparent scrape and was acquired by a pot rubbed adjoin the apparent of the countertop. It's almost about a quarter-inch by a quarter-inch, so it's not actual big, but it's abominably in a actual accessible spot. I feel actual badly. This is a new, actual high-end kitchen.
None of the bounded accouterments shops assume to accept annihilation added than stainless animate cleaners. Can you advice me and allay my guilt?
A. Repairing this baby birthmark may not be accessible to do, as it depends on the blazon of stainless animate used.
I contacted a metallurgic specialist, and he is not actual encouraging. Here are some of his comments, which will hopefully advice to abstain added accident to the countertop:
"Such a birthmark could be a difficult antiquity to adjustment and such a adjustment could aftereffect in a abiding beheld distraction. Obviously, the after-effects will depend on the abyss of the scratch/gouge, accumulated with the accomplishment practices acclimated to aftermath the countertop and the agency acclimated to attack the repair. I accept any consecutive apparent analysis will be difficult to alloy with, or match, the as-received manufacturer's surface.
"The birthmark would accept to be 'polished' out, but it would be difficult to alloy it in with surrounding surfaces. Afterwards alive how the aboriginal apparent was produced, it would be a authentic academic bold to devise a acceptable 'repair.'
"Perhaps a bigger access would be to accept the adult acquaintance the architect and/or bell-ringer to get their recommendations. They would be in a bigger position to acclaim a action to abolish the scratch. Also, they ability accept centralized repairmen or be able to accredit your clairvoyant to an accomplished artisan able of authoritative this blazon of repair, rather than aggravating to do it herself."
I achievement that, in animosity of the absence of my efforts, your answerability and that of your daughter, if she feels as you do, will be somewhat assuaged.
Q. I could abiding use your help, as I accept not been able to break a avenue gas botheration in our basement bathroom. The catchbasin catchbasin was aloof bankrupt out recently. The aperture aqueduct on the roof was ablaze out application a baptize corrupt with a "bully" tip to bright the passageway. Unfortunately, this has not chock-full the avenue gas odor. Alike back the bath fan is active for a while, the avenue odor becomes alike stronger. Is there annihilation abroad you apperceive of that could advice stop the awful avenue odor?
A. Back you run the bath fan, you are cartoon added avenue gases from wherever they are advancing in.
Is there a attic cesspool in the bathroom, or abutting by, which may accomplish it assume as if the aroma is from the bathroom? The cesspool may accept broiled up, in which case, ample it up and add some achromatize to it -- and do this regularly.
Another accepted access point for avenue gases is the toilet wax seal. Over time, the wax allowance becomes aeroembolism and needs to be replaced. If this is the case, be abiding you accept it replaced with one of the new waxless systems, which should never charge replacement.
• Henri de Marne was a adjustment architect in Washington, D.C., for abounding years, and is now a consultant. His book, "About the House," is accessible at www.upperaccess.com. His website is www.henridemarne.com. Email him at henridemarne@gmavt.net, or to Aboriginal Aid for the Ailing House, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
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