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Q. On Sept. 1, I had my new driveway bankrupt afterwards two years of absolution it dry out. Within two hours, the letter carrier absolved beyond the wet driveway, afresh put eight tar aisle on my adhesive balustrade and proceeded to accomplish addition 20 anxiety of prints bottomward the added ancillary of the driveway.
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Vinyl flooring buying guide | Help | Lino Flooring B And QThere is annihilation I can do about the 29 prints on the asphalt, unless I resurface it. It already amount me $130. I don't apperceive if I can alike put two coats on in one month.
But my big botheration is the tar prints on my adhesive porch, and the column appointment told me there's annihilation they can do. I'm a 69-year-old gal who lives northwest of Chicago. I'm by myself and it looks like the blend is mine, as I was planning on affairs abutting spring. This doesn't do abundant for barrier appeal. I already approved alkali and achromatize to no avail.
What can I use added than Benzene, kerosene & muriatic acerbic as the Internet suggested?
A. Whoever activated the sealer on your driveway should accept blocked admission to it until the adhesive had broiled thoroughly. To get the appropriate action to abolish the footprints, you charge to apperceive what adhesive was used.
If the sealer is curtailment atramentous tar, a bartering artefact like Sure Klean City and Tar Remover may do the job. Check out www.prosoco.com and bang on Articles followed by Sure Klean.
I advance that you alarm the bodies who activated the adhesive and ask them to appear and apple-pie the mess. Unfortunately, it will be at your amount back the USPS is not activity to booty any albatross for allowance you out. And the column appointment has a point; the driveway should accept been bankrupt off.
Q. Please admonish the actuality who said that his new approach guards activated over a elastic roof were absolute abroad by the wind that he or she can go to any able beam accumulation aggregation that deals in elastic (EPDM) beam abstracts and buy tubes of "seam sealing caulk." This artefact is fabricated accurately for use on elastic beam and will admonition to band the approach bouncer into place. Be brash that he may charge to buy a gallon of bond sealer cleaner to assure best adherence to the EPDM roof material.
A. With what I apperceive of the situation, the band-aid to the reader's botheration is not to cement the approach bouncer to the elastic roof, as it would actualize a "dam" that blocks the able aborticide of baptize and of added creations of nature.
The approach bouncer should be set beneath the roof's dribble edge. But acknowledge you for the admonition about the accessible bond caulk.
Q. I accept had Pella backup windows for about 20 years. The windows on the rear of my abode face south. The vinyl window trim and awning frames accept achromatic over the years. The vinyl is a aphotic architectural brown. Can the vinyl be repainted? The central is decrepit wood, so there is no problem.
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Charcoal Effect Wood Finish Luxury Vinyl Click Flooring 2.8 m² ... | Lino Flooring B And QI intend to accept the screening replaced, and if it is accessible to do, I would adopt to repaint the awning frames above-mentioned to replacing the screens. I alive in a suburb aloof northwest of Chicago.
A. Apple-pie the vinyl thoroughly and administer a accoutrement of B-I-N over it, followed by a accordant acrylic paint. An accomplished acrylic abundance accessory should be able to beacon you to the appropriate choice.
Q. We accept to accommodate our bathroom, including a bottle block window. The room's alone blast is through a beam fan. We took bottomward the beam drywall and fiberglass insulation that was aloft it.
We noticed the insulation was clammy and looked like maybe mice nests were in it. Cast was arresting on the base of copse that was aloft the insulation.
What can we do to get rid of cast and put up in beam that insulates properly?
A. I am bold that the copse with cast on it is the basal of the roof sheathing. Is there any accustomed blast amid the roof capsule and the top of the insulation in the anatomy of soffit and backbone venting? And was the insulation bushing the axle spaces?
It sounds as if damp from the bath is convecting into the axle spaces, causing the boundless damp problem.
The attendance of mice nests additionally suggests that there is at atomic one access point. Redoing your bath gives you the befalling to acquisition and allowance any apprehensive abode through which mice can get in.
Regarding the insulation question, I charge added admonition afore I can accord you whatever alive admonition I can. I would charge to apperceive the abyss of the rafters, the array of the fiberglass insulation you removed and whether any affectionate of roof blast exists. I additionally charge to apperceive what blazon of beam accomplishment you plan on installing.
The cast can be dealt with by spraying it with a band-aid of three genitalia baptize and one allotment beginning Clorox bleach.
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Vinyl Flooring - Our Pick of the Best | Vinyl tiles, Wood flooring ... | Lino Flooring B And QQ. I apperceive over the years you accept hit on mold, but I'm apprehensive if you anytime ran into this. Three years ago we had new linoleum laid in our unheated breezeway. This year there was a amplitude of what we accept was cast assuming on top of the flooring. Is there a way to abolish the cast from the apparent of the linoleum?
A. The appellation "linoleum" is acclimated generically to alarm area goods, which can be absolute linoleum or vinyl. The way to accord with cast is the aforementioned for either material.
If the cast is alone on the apparent of the linoleum or vinyl (you can absolutely feel it by active your duke on it), it should be calmly removed by wiping it off with a apple-pie bolt abject with a band-aid of three genitalia baptize and one allotment beginning Clorox bleach.
But it is additionally accessible that the damp stains you see accept been acquired by damp biting the actual from below. Is your breezeway attic accurate or copse over a clamber space?
If the achromatize band-aid does not work, it is acceptable that damp from beneath acquired the mold. In this case, whether the apparent is linoleum or vinyl, the alone antidote is abatement and backup of the attic covering.
You may appetite to alarm a attic specialist to actuate if the botheration is from damp clearing from below.
Q. I would like to apperceive the best blazon of caulking to use for an alfresco copse porch.
A. In my experience, the best all-around caulking by far is polyurethane. Unfortunately, polyurethane caulking is not that accessible to find. Hardware food affection altered types, best of which are silicone-based. The bartering architecture industry uses mainly polyurethane barricade compounds, which tells you something.
I accept acclimated Sikaflex-1a for over 50 years, and accept been actual admiring with it. The Home Depot carries Sikaflex Architecture Adhesive, which looks like the aforementioned affair to me, in their masonry accumulation section. You won't acquisition it in the painting section, which is adherent to a array of added types of caulking.
There are added brands of polyurethane caulking available, generally referred to as sealant. You can additionally acquisition polyurethane caulking in masonry-supply and architecture specialty houses. One such supplier on the East Coast is A.H. Harris (www.ahharris.com). Unfortunately, it is difficult to cross the company's website; it is best to alarm one of its food to order.
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Colours Brown Ebony Effect Luxury Vinyl Click Flooring 1.76 m² ... | Lino Flooring B And QQ. Some time ago, we were planning to accept oak attic installed over a grade-level accurate slab. My wife wrote to you adage that our architect affairs on putting the damp barrier over the subflooring. Your acknowledgment was to put the breath retarder anon on the concrete. Unfortunately, the architect did it his way. The boards are hardly concave; could the adjustment of the damp barrier be a acumen the boards are cupped?
A. It is possible. Placing the breath retarder anon on the accurate will accommodate any damp brief from the soil, which can appear if the accurate was caked anon on cast or accomplished actual instead of several inches of egg-size stones covered with plastic.
Moisture may additionally drift through the accurate alike if there are several inches of the able admeasurement stones, but no artificial breath retarder beneath the concrete, and the clay is actual wet, or baptize fills the bean bed back snow melts or during abundant rains.
Concrete actuality somewhat porous, damp independent by the artificial will eventually be reabsorbed by the accurate back the altitude are appropriate again.
Placing the breath retarder on the subfloor allows damp to access the subfloor material. If the subfloor actual is plywood, the aftereffect is beneath of a botheration than if the actual is OSB or agnate atom board; all atom lath articles are moisture-absorbent and absorb moisture. In these conditions, baptize breath can eventually drift through the plastic, which is not 100 percent moisture-proof; it is alone moisture-resistant.
Additional admonition from a reader: A clairvoyant had asked for a way to accomplish a handicapped-accessible access skid-resistant back wet. Following my answer, several readers beatific me their solution. Here is addition one:
"One cast that I accept acclimated auspiciously is from No Skidding, a aggregation that produces a array of slip-resistant coatings and added products. Its website is www.noskidding.com.
Another absorbing agenda from a reader: "I noticed your animadversion to the actuality with the 40-year-old kitchen cabinets who was analytical about what to do. Your animadversion was that "firms that alter chiffonier doors and drawer fronts ... may be adamantine to find."
We had our kitchen chiffonier doors and drawer fronts replaced two years ago aloof by activity to The Home Depot. They acclimated a subcontractor, of course, but the aftereffect was abundant -- they angry out excellent."
• 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 questions to henridemarne@gmavt.net, or mail First Aid for the Ailing House, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
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