Tracey Paul from Provincial Wallcoverings Ltd. in Toronto dropped into the studio to give both me and you some tips on getting wallpaper on the wall looking good and staying put.Most important according to Tracey is to have the wall smooth with no bumps or holes before you start.Read the instruct...
Ever had the terrible experience of pulling that drawer out beyond the runners and having it swing down dropping all the contents onto the floor. That's not too bad with some clothes, but the kitchen silverware?Paul from Kitchener, Ontario sent in an idea for blocking the drawer from coming all ...
Do you need an adjustable support table for the boards hanging off the edge of your miter saw?How about an old ironing board.It is totally adjustable in height and easy to store away.Click here for a lot more about "wings for your miter saw".
How about some nailing tips.If you are putting several nails in the end of the board, do not line them up on the same grain line. The accumulative effect of forcing their way through the wood will certainly split the wood. Stagger them so that each is on a different grain line and you have less...
Ok, I'm not the best painter in the DIY world. I don't even enjoy painting that much. So I asked Alan Watkins from Sico paints to come in so I could grill him on my common painting errors.I always thought that the thick rollers were for rough surfaces and the low mat rollers were for smoother s...
Kelly in Mount Hope, Ontario suggests putting a damp cloth in the dryer with wrinkled shirts and they will come out free of wrinkles.Put a new tennis ball in the dryer with a duvet and it will keep the stuffing from bunching up.
When you have metallic window screens, the sun tends to cook some kind of screen-like pattern of pollution on the window that doesn't want to come off. The key is to use any oven cleaner, which when you think about it, is made for cleaning off cooked-on matter. Be careful, the oven cleaner will...
Here are two quick tips for moving heavy furniture by yourself without scratching the floor.You can tip a chair or sofa back and slide a rug under, tip it forward and finish unrolling the rug. That puts all four feet on the rug. Then you can simply pull it to where you want with ease and withou...
One of the most frustrating things is trying to make a long rope out of all sorts of short pieces, especially when they are different thickness. So here is the splicing knot for different sized ropes.Make a loop with the larger rope. Run the end of the smaller rope through the loop. Wrap it...
Allan from Chatham, Ontario sent me that red object in the photos above. We all have that box of various screws and fasteners and if you are like me and Allan, we usually dump it out on the table or into a pizza pie pan to be able to sort through it to find the screw we want.Allan pours them int...
