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Home Improvement Tips & Techniques
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The Renovators Tips & Techniques Knowledge-Base features do-it-yourself home improvement project information
with a focus on restoration, remodeling, decorating, and general household repair. The library is loaded with tips, techniques,
and ideas on everything from maintaining your yard and garden to restoring your period kitchen and bath.
Have a specifc question? Looking for a hard to find product? Need some advice? Please visit the
Renovators Old House Friends Forum.
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An overview of types of caulking available and there uses.
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Wash with mild detergent and water. Use a soft bristle brush for stubborn soil. Rinse and dry. Some household cleaners and solvents remove plasticizers from vinyl, making them brittle. Abrasive cleaners scratch the smooth surface.
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Alcohol stains are caused by spilled drinks and by many medicines, lotions, and perfumes. Since alcohol dissolves many finishes, it is important to react quickly. Wipe up the spill quickly and rub the spot vigorously with your palm or with a cloth dipped in a small amount of furniture polish.
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The hazards of heating with a wood stove include fires started by heat radiated or conducted by the stove, stove pipe or chimney to walls, floors and other combustible materials; fires started by sparks and glowing coals falling out of front loading stoves when opened, and fires started by flames leaking out of faulty chimneys or burning or glowing material coming out of the top of the chimney.
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