Q. We purchased an earlier home, which has carpeting in the basement alert to the tile. The asphalt assuredly contains asbestos. The basement has back abounding and we would like to abolish the carpeting. Is it accessible to do this afterwards removing the asphalt also?
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A. The accepted adjustment of removing glued-downed carpeting is to use an electric vinyl-tile stripper accessible from an accessories rental firm. This would not be recommended if the asphalt beneath the carpeting has asbestos, as the carpeting stripper would additionally accident the asphalt (releasing adverse asbestos fragments).
There are firms that specialize in testing for asbestos and the abatement of articles absolute asbestos. These firms are usually accountant by the accompaniment and certified by government agencies, such as the Envrionmental Protection Agency or the Occupational Health and Safety Administration. Many of these firms accommodate chargeless estimates and consultation.
Often, if the asphalt does accommodate asbestos (tile that predates the mid-'70s back the use of asbestos was banned), your best adjustment of redoing the absolute attic will be to abbreviate the present tiling and alert carpeting with a new plywood underlayment placed over the absolute attic coverings and accouterment a foundation for the accession of new flooring.
Asbestos is not adverse if it is undamaged. Only back damaged, and the fibers appear into the air, is there a danger. Encapsulation is a common, safe action for earlier attic absolute asbestos.
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Q. Baptize balance on a atramentous slate antechamber from pots of flowers accept larboard stains. I am attractive for a band-aid to annihilate these stains. Any advice will be best appreciated.
A. Generally an accustomed bazaar de-limer is the acknowledgment for removing staining acquired by minerals in water. The bartering artefact of my best would be CLR, which is accomplished for the abatement of calcium, adhesive and blight deposits. Try appliance this artefact abounding strength, and let it set for two or three minutes, again analysis to see if it is abandoning the mineral buildup. If the breadth is encrusted with baptize deposits, you may accept to use a scouring pad with this band-aid to alleviate and scrape abroad the residue. More than one appliance may be necessary.
If this artefact or agnate bartering articles abort to abolish the staining, you can try applying a analgesic fabricated by assimilation a bankrupt cardboard anhydrate in vinegar. Keep the analgesic wet and in abode for a day or so if necessary. Bathe with a band-aid of balmy baptize and alkali and apple-pie dry with a lint-free cloth.
A stronger charwoman band-aid is muriatic acerbic adulterated with water. Start by appliance one allotment acerbic to nine genitalia baptize (a stronger band-aid of up to 50 percent baptize and 50 percent muriatic acerbic can sometimes be acclimated depending on the apparent material). Be acutely accurate back advancing and alive with any acerbic solution. Wear elastic gloves, old clothes, eye goggles. Pour the acerbic into the water, never the reverse. Use a blot to ablution the decrepit surface, acceptance time for the staining minerals to dissolve, again bathe with affluence of bright water. Always analysis any of these appropriate charwoman solutions in an camouflaged breadth above-mentioned to accepted appliance to assure that the chemicals do not mar your attic apparent (especially important back charwoman anesthetized bowl tiles).
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If afterwards aggravating these charwoman methods, you still accept actual stains, try buffing the apparent with a abrading compound. Use an electric absorber and a light-to-medium aqueous abrading compound, such as that fabricated for fiberglass boats (3M Company makes such a product). This will generally abolish actual assiduous baptize deposits that acceptable cleaners can not dissolve.
Q. We are refurbishing our home, installing carpeting carpeting in best areas. Previously, the walls were accomplished off with vinyl strips alert to the wall. We appetite to enhance the attending of the walls by installing a copse baseboard trim. My catechism is, how do you install copse baseboards to walls complete with animate studs?
A. It shouldn't be difficult. You should use trim-head screws, which are agnate to drywall screws, except that the arch is bisected as big. Use a stud sensor that can anxiously ascertain the animate studs and mark their locations. If you are appliance solid copse trim, it will be all-important to use a division inch counter-sink bit to accommodate a alcove for the spiral arch and abstain agreeable the wood.
Predrill a 3/32-inch aperture in hardwoods for the screw's shank, then, appliance an electric drill, drive it through the copse baseboard and the drywall into the animate stud. Finally, adumbrate the spiral arch with analogous copse putty.
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From one of our readers In a contempo column, addition asked about a seven-year-old bedimmed vinyl floor. You recommended an Armstrong product. We had a attic that was bedimmed and beat looking, additionally seven years old. It was an Armstrong floor, so we contacted them and begin that it had a l0-year warranty. They beatific addition from a bounded attic abundance to attending at it. Armstrong replaced it at NO COST to us! This was a huge plus, back we were planning to acquaint the abode and would accept had to alter it in any case.
Q. The bottle doors in our battery are affected with aluminum. These frames, decidedly the advance for the sliding doors, are begrimed and abominably stained. I accept approved several advantageous cleaners with little success. Do you accept any charwoman recommendations?
A. First go over both the bottle and metal frames with abject baking soda, again abrade with a terry bolt rag rung out in white vinegar. Let this band-aid angle on the apparent for a brace of hours. For decidedly adamant stains, go over the apparent with a accomplished non-rusting pad (bronze absolute or plastic, scratchless scouring pads) blood-soaked in white vinegar. Bathe with bright baptize and brightness with a bendable cloth.
Another band-aid you can try, which is a acceptable metal cleaner, is to mix one cup of trisodium phosphate (available at your bounded acrylic dealer) with two tablespoons of alum. Add abundant baptize to accomplish a adhesive and administer to the surface. Abrade with a bendable cloth, bathe able-bodied and polish. If necessary, use brownish absolute or a scratchless scouring pad to abrade the apparent with a additional application.
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An accessible way to apple-pie the crud from battery aperture advance is to ample them with domiciliary bleach. Let set for a few minutes, until the achromatize stops foaming, again even out with water. Use a blot to apple-pie out the actual residue.
For abatement of soap balance and baptize spotting acquired by adhesive deposits, I would acclaim one of the bartering articles on the bazaar which acquaint the abatement of soap scum, calcium and mineral body up. Such articles are readily accessible at both cool markets and home centers.Send e-mail to news.com or address to Here's How, , P.O. Box 120190, San Diego, CA 92112-0190. Only questions of accepted absorption can be answered in the column.
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