Filed under: Home Improvement | Tags: repair, wire wool, wood floors, wooden floors
Here’s a useful DIY tip I’ve picked up recently that I think I should share with all my blog readers. If you have a beautiful wooden floor that has developed some minor surface scratches there is an easy way to tackle the problem. I’ve learned that by using a soft wire wool pad you can actually buff a lot of these minor scratches away by hand. Ensure you focus only on the damaged area and gently caress the floor surface with the wire wool along the line of the grain. This DIY tip only works for minor surface scratches but I’ve found it useful in the spare room of the house where the floor has received some minor damage.
Hello once again DIY blog readers young and old! Following my well documented bathroom related disasters over the last few months and the recent necessity to arrange a call out from one of Leeds’ quickest and cheapest emergency plumbers, I am starting to lose faith in my bathroom. The problems have been ongoing and wide ranging in their origin, ranging from the broken showers when I first moved in to the house, to the horrendous smelly green mold and damp on the walls and cracks in the tiles. With all this in mind, I’m finally coming round to the idea that my limited DIY skills are going to quite probably be insufficient to make a decent go of this bathroom. My housemates have perhaps wisely suggested that it may be time to leave my toolbox in the cupboard and call in a specialist bathrooms fitter. Now as you know, my wallet cannot stretch to much so were going to have to be on the lookout for special offers over the coming months if we are to find something within our budget. In the mean time it looks like me and my monkey wrench will have to continue our hard work!
Filed under: DIY | Tags: Asphalt, DIY tips, gutter, guttering, House, piping, repair, Spray
Having recently encountered some rather nasty looking cracks in my houses’ guttering – which is no doubt soon to develop into a full blown leak, I was at first quite frankly “gutted” (sorry 
) But never fear I feel I may have encountered a much quicker and easier DIY solution than the one that involves messing around with length of gutter piping on a 20 foot long ladder, most likely getting myself covered in smelly rotten leaves, bird muck and other general nastiness.
Indeed, upon study of the glorious breadth of DIY resources the internet has to offer, i have discovered that there is in fact a simple spray on solution available from most decent DIY shops. It is a kind of asphalt which comes in a simple spray can and is ideal for sorting out any minor cracks or blemishes in your guttering quickly and easily. To use it, first give the cracked area a decent scrub and clean with a cloth, then use some meths or white spirit to get rid of any oily residue on the affected area. Use an old rag or bits of card to isolate the area that needs repairing so you don’t spray the asphalt everywhere on bits of guttering that aren’t broken, then simply spray over the cracks from around arms length (it can be useful to check the manufacturers instructions at this point). Allow it to dry fully, then maybe add a second coating if desired.
Having returned to the gutter after work, I am overall very pleased with the result! Overall, it’s turned out to be a very easy and reasonably cheap DIY solution to what may have been a rather mucky problem!
