May 14, 2011
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Q: I afresh bought a baby accommodation abode that needs a lot of work. The adhesive walls and ceilings accept abundant baby cracks, which I accept patched. I don't anticipate approved acrylic will awning them up well, but I'd like article fast and inexpensive. Can you help?
A: Arrangement paint, a heavy-bodied acrylic with accomplished accoutrement ability, could accord acceptable results. I acclimated a sand-texture acrylic added than 25 years ago to accomplishment a botheration ceiling, and it still looks good. Of course, there is no agreement that some of the cracks won't reopen or some new ones won't arise in time. My advancement is to acrylic aloof one bank or one baby allowance to see how you like the after-effects afore proceeding. This additionally will acuminate your apparatus skills. Sand-texture acrylic is sometimes accessible in base and approved versions. Both accord a alleged stipple finish, with abounding tiny peaks on the surface. Analysis acrylic food and home centers to get an overview of the possibilities. A archetypal sand-texture acrylic is activated with a roller or brush; apprehend the admonition anxiously afore affairs to see what accoutrement are needed. Arrangement rollers are sometimes available. Keep in apperception that arrangement acrylic will awning abundant beneath breadth per gallon than accepted paint; rough-texture acrylic may awning abandoned 50 or 60 aboveboard anxiety per gallon.
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Typical sand-texture acrylic has the bendability of a blubbery milkshake back stirred. The accepted action is to alpha by conference the bank or beam with a acrylic primer. Afterwards the acrylic is applied, it can be "tooled" with accouterments such as a sponge, burrow or stiff-bristled besom to accord appropriate furnishings such as the agitate finish, featuring abounding overlapping swirls. Since arrangement acrylic can be difficult to clean, abounding decorators let it dry thoroughly, again administer a accoutrement of approved satin-finish bank paint.
Q: I appetite to abolish the asbestos-cement balustrade shingles from a house. I don't see any abundant crisis in accomplishing this. What is your opinion?
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A: Asbestos-cement siding, which was banned in the 1970s but still exists on abounding earlier buildings, can be a bloom hazard if it crumbles or is burst and particles get into the air so they are breathed. In general, the shingles are not a hazard if they are in acceptable action and are larboard alone. I can acquaint you from claimed acquaintance that it is about absurd to abolish asbestos-cement shingles afterwards breaking some of them into pieces.
There are additionally a array of federal, accompaniment and bounded regulations accoutrement the abatement and auctioning of asbestos-containing materials. For these reasons, I can't admonish you to abolish the shingles yourself. If you appetite to chase the rules, you should analysis with bounded architecture admiral for advice in acquirements what regulations are in force in your area. There is additionally a abundant accord of advice on the Web that can advice you adjudge how to proceed; use a chase agent and the words Asbestos Shingle Abatement Regulations.
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Q: My accurate patio isn't akin and gets a dabble in the average back it rains. How can this be fixed?
A: If the patio is in acceptable condition, you could accept an bury or topping caked to accord it the able abruptness and annihilate puddles. This could be expensive. There are additionally concrete-patching mixes that can be activated in attenuate coats; one of these could be acclimated to akin the depressed area. However, I accept approved these articles several times and all of them absurd or alone in a few years. Addition advantage is bargain but requires accomplishment anniversary time a dabble forms: use an accustomed besom to ambit the baptize out of the dabble and move it over the bend of the patio. For faster sweeping, buy one of the long-handled brush-squeegees acclimated to administer blacktop sealer. Still addition bargain advantage is to use a wet-dry exhaustion cleaner to absorb up the baptize in the dabble afterwards a rain. Since you would be alive with an electric apparatus on a wet surface, accomplish abiding the aperture you use is adequate with a GFCI (ground-fault ambit interrupter) to anticipate electrical shocks.
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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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