Construction and repair. Page 16

Building your own home is not an easy task. Especially if you are not a professional, do not have complete knowledge, and do not use the tool so skillfully. Yes, and you are building a house for the first time. I think there are many such entry-level masters. But not

Due to numerous requests in the comments to my videos, today I will try to make a composition of polystyrene foam and solvents for application to concrete. I would like to see how it will behave, because car owners are interested in cheap varnish for

There are many reasons for reworking old wires in home electrical systems. In particular, this concerns the reconstruction of old housing stock. Aluminum wiring with two cores is susceptible to corrosion and disintegration. The characteristic reason for this condition is very bad

Anyone who has ever soldered twists in a distribution box at home knows perfectly well what it’s like to stand on a stool and try to solder a connection at height with a soldering iron. Covering the entire floor with solder is half the trouble, the main thing here is not to get burned, since

The device is designed for laying bricks in order to maintain the same thickness of the seam. Thanks to this very simple and uncomplicated design, you can easily make beautiful and very even masonry while maintaining all the distances between

A regular tape measure can do much more than taking measurements using a retractable tape. The hidden abilities of the well-known instrument will be discussed in this article. Let's start with the simplest things.

Any repair work is real work. In order to properly line the bathroom walls with plastic panels with your own hands, you must adhere to certain rules and instructions.

Apparently, it’s time to talk about the aspects of creating a reinforced concrete fence post. Because I've been wanting to do this for a long time. And for beginners in the business of concreting something, it would be useful to learn the true technology for creating cement mortar.

A summer shower in a summer cottage is simply necessary. What could be more pleasant after a hard day at work is to take a cool, refreshing shower.In this article I want to tell you how I made a shower with my own hands from materials that were on my site.

I will show you how easy it is to cut a thread on a water pipe for an ordinary home craftsman, without any skills in this matter and with a minimal set of tools. For example, when replacing a central heating battery, as in my case. This is not the case

Drywall material is simply wonderful; you can use it to build walls or level them without any problems. Very easy to cut and process. But unfortunately, for all its advantages, drywall does not have the proper strength. From this he

Anyone who has ever changed a bathroom faucet from an old one to a new one has probably encountered a problem: how to unscrew the faucet eccentric and replace it with another one. The matter is certainly not tricky, take it and twist it, but with the wrong approach, especially

Hi all! I want to show you how to properly install fence posts, since there is not a lot of information on the Internet. If you install posts using this technology, your fence will be strong, even, and most importantly, will last a very long time. The method provides

Often, most people are afraid to unscrew the nut of the oblique strainer. The fact is that such a filter is usually located immediately after the tap on the riser, and this place is very important. Since a mistake can lead to

It is very easy to make such a concrete platform in front of a house or garage with your own hands. The area is poured on site one by one into the form of tiles with a decorative pattern. Unlike purchased forms, ours is homemade, which makes it possible to make tiles

Paving slabs are in high demand, and installation of such a covering is easy to do yourself.

Older houses use aluminum wire wiring. Often, when carrying out renovations in your apartment, it becomes necessary to lengthen the wires. If you use copper wires or alloys, then simply connect them to

When decorating bathrooms, ceramic tiles are most often used. It is ideal for rooms with high humidity. Let's look at the progress of laying tiles in the bathroom. Measure the area of ​​the area you will decorate with tiles. tiles

To cut a hole in large-diameter ceramic tiles, a ballerina drill is very often used, and even less often a diamond crown and similar methods are used. I want to tell you how to get out of a situation when you have nothing like this at hand except

The kitchen should be conducive to eating and pleasant evening conversations, so you want this room to be cozy and comfortable.Undertaking expensive and lengthy repairs is not always advisable, and sometimes quite expensive. Help in this case

The emergence of such a finishing material as liquid wallpaper has made it possible for everyone to create interior masterpieces on their own. After all, the work of applying liquid wallpaper does not require the professional skills of a painter or plasterer and is accessible to everyone. Principle

Is the mixer running? This can be fixed! The water supply communications of many apartments, to put it mildly, leave much to be desired; to this are also added periodic shutdowns of water and testing of pipes, as a result of which water gets into our mixers and taps.

This gun can be used to feed concrete mixture into very narrow cracks, seams or crevices. The design is a screw pump, which is driven by a screwdriver or drill. It is no longer possible to concrete narrow channels anywhere

Should we throw out the old faucet or leave it? If you have a mixer lying around unnecessarily in your household, do not rush to throw it away or scrap it: it may turn out that it is quite ready to serve, you just need to work on it a little