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  Repairing Concrete Steps

  Dave Ashberry of King Packaged Materials joins Jon in running down the various methods and products used making surface repairs to concrete.Cracked corners or edges on concrete steps are a major hazard and should be fixed. Top & Bond is one of the basic surface patching materials availab...
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  Plaster above the shower stall?

  Michelle in Port Coquitlam, BC had a worker repair the wall and ceiling above the shower tiles. He used ordinary drywall compound and she is worried that it is going to just go soft with time.The original wall and ceiling were made with the same material and it didn't have any problems until the...
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  Wood Touch-Ups - eleminating scratches

  A scratch in a piece of furniture is usually impossible to eliminate completely without refinishing the piece. However, you can often hide it pretty well with any of a variety of stain pens or coloured wax crayons. They can simply be rubbed in, or melted, even colours mixed during melting and f...
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  Sealing Shower Faucets

  Shower faucets often have large holes cut through the tiles to allow the plumbing through. These are then covered up by escutcheon plates, those decorative plates behind the handles. But these plates are not water proof and often water rolls down the tiles, behind the cover plates and into the ...
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  Stove top cleaning and repairs

  Most stove top parts can be replaced, ranging from drip pans, to burners and switches. \012\012Avoid using aluminum foil under an electric burner as it can reflect too much and overheat part of the unit. Also, pieces of the aluminum foil can flake off and cause a short circuit where the wires at...
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  Patching Tire Tubes

  This segment ran through the standard soap and water testing for leaks in inner tubes. The primary trick to making a patch last is to completely dry the surface, rough it up well before applying the adhesive and then when the adhesive is tacky, press the patch in firmly, even rolling the edge of...
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  Fixing a drywall corner

  When someone has bumped into the corner of a wall and caused damage to the finish, there are some preliminary things that must be done before patching it.First be sure that all loose drywall compound is removed. Then add screws to the metal corner bead if necessary to pull it back flush. Use...
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  Repairing old guillotine window sash cords

  People often find that old guillotine windows have to be propped up with sticks and the like to keep them open in the summer, because the counter weight sash cord has broken.Jon went through the process of how to open up the hidden cavity where the weights move up and down. There is always a ...
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  Cleaning Acoustical Tile Ceilings

  Acoustical tile ceilings tend to get dirty, and are very difficult to clean. Some people just paint them, but that plugs up the acoustical holes. In this TV segment we walked through the cleaning of a very dirty ceiling in a community centre with a company called Enviro Clean from Cornwall, Ont...
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  Embossed Tin Ceiling Installation

  Embossed Tin Ceilings are still made today. In this segment of the TV show we demonstrated just how easy they are to install. Ed Ries was the installer.You can order standard or custom tin ceiling panels from Brian Greer in Petersburg, Ontario, made just like they were a hundred years ago.