How To Clean Up Parquet Flooring
How do you fixbroken bandage latches? Q We accept double-hung windows with tilt-in sashes for accessible cleaning. Some of the sashes won't break closed, but pop accessible on their own. Can this be fixed?
A The burst bandage latches can apparently be replaced. There are several types of latches, but in best cases it's accessible to restore the latching activity by installing simple surface-mounted latches (your windows ability already accept this type). The latches are amid at the top corners of anniversary sash, one latch on anniversary side. Typical surface-mounted latches are fabricated of artificial and accept housings about 3 inches continued and an inch wide; the acicular latch itself, which extends back you abutting the bandage to authority it in place, juts out of the end of the latch apartment and has a bounce action. If the latch apparatus fails, the latch won't work, of course. Anniversary latch is absorbed with two screws.
Take a acceptable attending at the latches on top of your windows' sashes, and again appointment www.allaboutdoors.com to see what backup latches are available. At All About Doors & Windows, bang on Articles, again on Windows and Their Hardware, again go to Page 2 of the account and bang on Replacing Tilt Latches. You'll acquisition illustrations of the assorted types and instructions and prices for acclimation them if you appetite to try a do-it-yourself repair. If in agnosticism about any footfall of the repair, the best bet is to acquaintance the architect who installed the windows. Next best is to analysis with the manufacturer. Beyond that, about any acceptable window artisan should be able to accomplish the repair.
Moisture causes bucklingof parquet attic tiles
Q The baby copse squares in our 40-year-old parquet attic are buckling. We doubtable the account is damp from wet acclimate but aren't sure. Do you accept any suggestions for authoritative the attic lie flat?
A Damp could able-bodied be the cause, back it causes copse to swell. Damp could additionally be affecting the adhering that holds the copse squares to the underlayment, causing them to appear loose. After 40 years, it ability be time to accede replacing this attic with a blazon that is added able to bear high-moisture problems. You don't accord any capacity about the architecture of your abode or at what akin (basement, aboriginal floor) the attic is located, but a acceptable best if you appetite copse would be engineered copse flooring. This flooring, which is laminated from several attenuate layers, is added aggressive to damp than best added copse attic and can be installed at any brand akin if a damp barrier is used. If you don't appetite a new floor, you ability be able to pry up the apart and askance parquet, let the attic dry out thoroughly, again re-glue the parquet. The best bet would be to accept an accomplished attic architect analysis the attic and admonish you on all the options.
-- BY GENE AUSTIN / McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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