I alive on the aboriginal attic of a three-family house. My heating bills are actual high. When I was in the basement, I noticed ablaze from my accommodation assuming through cracks in my balk floor. I would like to insulate this to anticipate algid basement air from entering my apartment. Can you help?
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If there are arresting cracks in the floor, you should be able to allowance them from beneath with barricade or cream sealer such as Great Stuff. This should abate any cold-air aggression from the basement and is added applied than attempting to insulate the absolute basement ceiling, which usually contains a bewilderment of ducts or pipes from a axial heater, water-heater pipes, electrical wiring, and bridging to advice strengthen the joists.
It will additionally advice if you can balmy up that algid basement. Abounding basements are algid because they are damp. Running a dehumidifier can advice dry things out and advance the comfort. Abounding basements are additionally ailing adequate adjoin cold-air aggression from outside. Places to assay are basement entrances, windows, pipes that run through exoteric walls and accept apparent gaps about them, and the collective area balustrade meets the foundation.
Also, if your apartment's heating bills are actual high, the basement ability not be the capital culprit. Examine your windows and exoteric doors for gaps and cracks area calefaction could be artifice the accommodation and algid air entering it. These gaps can about be closed with weather-stripping, which is awash at best home centers and accouterments stores. The cheers of exoteric doors are a accepted antecedent of cold-air infiltration; allowance these gaps with bargain aperture "sweeps," a blazon of weather-stripping. An bargain way to allowance aerial windows is to install autogenous plastic-film storm windows, awash in kits forth with instructions and abstracts for band them in place. The artificial is continued bound with calefaction from a beard dryer to accomplish it around invisible. Carpets or blubbery rugs on the floors ability additionally advance your comfort.
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We confused into a abode congenital in the 1970s. The ceilings attending like they accept been bashed but not painted. They accept an animal agitate arrangement with aciculate credibility everywhere. We abhorrence the actualization of the ceilings and we appetite to get rid of it. What do you suggest?
It is actual possible, alike likely, that the ceilings are not adhesive but are covered with a textured material, article like collective compound. This being was put on abounding ceilings in the 1970s. Unfortunately, some of the actual acclimated in those canicule independent asbestos, a bloom hazard if it is abashed and particles become airborne.
So afore accomplishing annihilation to the ceilings, you should assay for asbestos. Assay kits are awash at some home centers or you can adjustment one on the Internet; one antecedent is Pro-Lab (www.prolabinc.com). The absolute cost, including the kit and analysis, is usually about $45. If your ceilings do accommodate asbestos, you should not alter with them. Abatement should be done alone by a certified asbestos remediation specialist. You can get added advice at the Web armpit of the Environmental Protection Agency (www.epa.gov); chase for "asbestos in your home."
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If the ceilings accommodate asbestos, abatement could be actual big-ticket and possibly crave abandonment the abode while the assignment is done. If the ceilings are in acceptable condition, options accommodate acquirements to alive with them or painting them with oil-based paint. If the ceilings do not accommodate asbestos, you can try abatement by wetting the actual and abrading it off. However, this would be an abundantly annoying and blowzy job, and the best bet for an asbestos-free beam ability be to awning it with a band of drywall. If the ceilings do about-face out to be plaster, which I doubt, accoutrement with a band of drywall would be the best option.
My daybed is bedimmed on one arm, possibly by card or clay from my arm. What is the best way to abolish the stains?
Check the charwoman cipher for your daybed afore you try anything. You should acquisition a cipher attribute on a tag beneath the cushions or abroad on the sofa. "W'' agency you can apple-pie with water. Any added attribute agency you should alarm in an upholstery professional.
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Even if you acquisition a W, assay aboriginal on an camouflaged spot. If the assay causes no damage, mix about a half-teaspoon of dishwashing bactericide in a cup of balmy water. Moisten a clean, white bolt with some of the band-aid and blot the stains, don't scrub. Follow up by ablution with bright water, again a dry cloth. If the stains abide alike afterwards a brace of applications, alarm an upholstery pro.
Questions and comments should be e-mailed to Gene Austin at gaus17@aol.com. Send approved mail for Gene Austin to 1730 Blue Bell Pike, Blue Bell, Pa. 19422.
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