Lifehacks and useful tips. Page 19

Polyurethane foam is not as simple a material as it might seem at first glance. Its scope of use is not limited to filling gaps. Let's look at a couple of useful tips and tricks for using it.

Wine and champagne corks can be used to make handles for knives and spinning rods, as well as floats and other crafts. But before that, they need to be straightened, since they lose their shape after being in the neck of the bottle. Do it

Soldering iron tip cleaning paste acts in two directions at once. Firstly, it cleans the tip from oxides and carbon deposits. Secondly, he tins it and wets it with solder. Essentially a comprehensive tool to quickly prepare a soldering iron for work. Factory samples

The slider on worn clothes and shoes wears out considerably from friction, so it stops zipping. To compensate for this, it simply needs to be crimped. However, for everything to work out, you need to do it right.

“Preservation” of shoes for the season is a familiar procedure to all housewives. But, often, the boots are simply washed and put in a box until “next winter.” In order to get winter shoes in the new year that are the same as on the store shelf, you need not only

If used incorrectly, the non-burnable tip still burns and becomes covered with a black, persistent coating. Naturally, it becomes impossible to continue using the soldering station, since the solder does not stick. To restore such stings they sell

A lot of practical advice and life hacks can be found on the Internet. Some of them are downright absurd and even funny. And, others may well take their rightful place in your treasury of worldly wisdom. I confess honestly, I always

It's hard to find a person who has never experienced pangs after the holidays. This includes heaviness in the stomach, and migraine, as well as lethargy and apathy. Of course, there is one simple recommendation - you don’t need to drink a lot. But, unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out

Everyone knows that natural, fragrance-free soap is much healthier for body care than gels, which can cause irritation to the skin. But what if we expand our capabilities and use soap, or rather, the remnants that we are used to?

During pregnancy, I couldn’t stand the smell of washing powders to such an extent that I had to give out huge supplies of all the detergents I had to my friends. And, as always, I bought in huge quantities and at discounts. I'm long

My mother-in-law told me this secret after I complained that my jeans were fading after washing. She offered me an almost free product to preserve color not only on denim, but also on other things that lose their color when

Many of us have more than once encountered the problem of washing winter clothes. The sleeves of a light down jacket have darkened and frayed, ugly dirty lines have appeared on the fabric, and sloppy stains have appeared somewhere on your favorite jacket. Is it possible to return

It happens that you just can’t open a jar with a screw cap.In order not to ask for help, you can open it using one of the suggested methods. Some of them will help you open a jar without any effort at all.

When rewiring polypropylene pipes, the old fittings have to be thrown away, since it is no longer possible to solder them to the new pipe. This is very sad, because American ones, taps and mud pans are not cheap. Using this method, you can

Sewing up a torn jacket with a needle and thread is not the best solution, since the seam remaining after this is obvious. You can often close the gap with a decorative patch, but it can look awkward if the hole is located in the wrong place.

Have you decided to clean up your home? General cleaning is a long and difficult job that takes a lot of physical strength. Particularly annoying are the “nice little things” bought during a trip to cities and countries, or given by friends as a souvenir.

To avoid getting wet to the skin when caught in the rain, clothes can be made waterproof using the old cheap method. To do this, you just need to soak it in special solutions made from natural, safe ingredients. Treated fabric will retain flexibility

Cosmetics and lipstick often stain our clothes.But, if powder or foundation can be easily washed in a washing machine, then with lipstick the situation is different. It is easier to remove caustic lipstick from synthetic fabrics than from cotton fabrics. But, I'll try in detail

To protect a steel product from corrosion, it can be coated. Blueing has good abrasion resistance, which is superior to paint, and most importantly, it does not thicken the product. Thanks to this, even threaded elements, such as

Cleaning an aluminum pot from soot after cooking over a fire is a very tedious task, and not always successful. After one use, you can still try to restore the original shine and cleanliness of the pot, but if it has been used more than twice, then

Everyone loves wearing jeans because they are comfortable and versatile. But sometimes everyday incidents happen. For example, you have lost weight and your jeans are too big for you. Or you ordered the jeans you liked from an online store, but they sent you the wrong size. Do not hurry

This life hack is for those who by mistake or accident bought a low-quality anti-freeze product. If you happen to be one of this number, then when frost sets in, you notice that the windshield washer fluid does not spray from the windshield washer nozzles. The whole point is that

Now the stores have everything we need for a comfortable life. Therefore, if we buy new shoes and realize that they are too narrow for us, we will certainly go to the store again for a shoe stretcher. Should I return the shoes back to the store? But very

Furniture and decor made of wood always look expensive and elegant. But, such material is very capricious in operation, because if you are careless, scratches and chips appear very quickly. Fortunately, this is not a death sentence for wooden products, and they