At the moment’s House owner Radio Podcast | August 6, 2022

Hour 1

In Hour 1, hear our solutions for matching wooden posts to vinyl, cleansing outdated wallpaper, and extra.  

Matching Wooden Posts to Vinyl

Doug Might has a fantastic view of the Blue Ridge Mountains on his covered back porch. However, the view of his porch isn’t as pleasing.

“The higher half has vinyl sleeves excessive of the posts. Every little thing’s lined and it’s good and clean and white. However down beneath, it’s simply pressure-treated wood, with all of the cracks and gaps,” Doug says. 

He needs the picket assist posts on the bottom to match the white vinyl posts on the porch above. What’s stopping him from protecting the wooden posts with vinyl is the diagonal wooden braces. He’s frightened concerning the trouble of connecting the various vinyl items on the diagonals and sealing them.

“What I need is the sleek feel and look of the vinyl on the posts beneath. Is there a approach to try this?” Doug asks.  

Vinyl sleeves are costly! If you need the posts to match, do that budget-friendly possibility: 

First, clear the wooden posts and apply a coat of primer.

Then, use auto physique filler (like Bondo) to clean out the cracks. As soon as that dries, calmly sand the posts. 

Then, caulk the areas the place the diagonal braces meet the vertical posts. 

Lastly, apply two coats of acrylic latex paint.

When you do that, nobody will know one set of posts is vinyl and the opposite set isn’t! The acrylic paint will give it a shiny look and seal the joints. 

In case you determine you wish to cowl the posts with vinyl, take away one put up at a time, together with the diagonal helps, and fasten the vinyl sleeves to every piece. 

Miter minimize the ends of the sleeves to suit the diagonal brace posts, and completely caulk every seam so water doesn’t get in.

Don’t caulk the underside of the diagonal brace items the place the wooden meets the put up. If water had been to get contained in the vinyl, you need it to have the ability to drain out and dry. 

Easy methods to Clear Outdated Wallpaper

Sandi Knollenburg purchased a 100-year-old farmhouse in Bloomington, In poor health., 5 years in the past, and she or he’s been renovating it little by little.

Proper now, she’s engaged on the stairwell space. The partitions that stretch from the primary ground to the second are lined in wallpaper from the Nineteen Sixties.

Sandi loves the sample, and the wallpaper remains to be in fairly good condition! All it wants is an effective cleansing.  

So, she wonders, “What’s one of the simplest ways to wash and protect the wallpaper?”

Most fashionable wallpapers have an acrylic or latex coating that makes them washable and, in some circumstances, scrubbable.

Older wallpaper is simply plain paper, so that you don’t wish to get it moist. In case you do, it’s going to peel off the wall.

Strive these choices to take away the filth and dirt: 

• Wipe the wallpaper with a big, dry sponge.
• Use a vacuum cleaner.
• Connect a microfiber fabric to a Swiffer-type mop for hard-to-reach spots.

To take away skids and scuffs, use a gum eraser. You should buy these at an artwork provide retailer.

Another choice is a dry Magic Eraser. If that doesn’t work, calmly dampen it.

Hour 2

In Hour 2, discover ways to forestall wooden rot in a bathe window, take away sediment from water, and extra.

Defending a Wooden Window Body in a Bathe

A caller wants recommendation on tiling round a window in his bathe. The wooden body stands out barely, so he can’t tile over it. 

“What do you do to deal with that to make it in order that the water will not be damaging that wooden and inflicting wooden rot?” he asks. “And extra importantly, (guarantee) that water will not be getting behind that and inflicting harm to the bathe?”

A variety of older homes have this downside. Sometimes, at one time limit, the toilet had only a tub with a window above it. Then someplace alongside the best way, a bathe was put in. 

I’ve seen a number of owners put a bathe curtain over the window, however hardly ever does that final lengthy.

To guard the wooden body from water damage, encapsulate the window body with the tile. 

Earlier than you lay the tile, make sure you caulk and paint the body. Convey the tile as much as the wooden after which overlap additional tile over the window body. This can shield the body from the water and provides it a pleasant, pronounced look. 

If water can nonetheless hit it straight, set up a water-proof window.

To fully get rid of any probability of wooden rot, take away the window and change it with a vinyl one.  

Sediment in Water

Pablo Sandoval in Willow Creek, Calif., is sick of sediment in his water. His residence attracts water from a deep properly and all wastewater flows right into a septic tank. 

“For a lot of the 12 months, the water provide is nice, however each summer time now we have an issue with sediment that clogs aerators at sinks and showerheads. Plus, the washer takes ceaselessly to fill with water. What can we do to alleviate these points?” he asks.

Sediment issues are extra frequent in the summertime as a result of water ranges are often decrease. There’s much less water however the identical quantity of sediment within the system, so it finds its strategy to the pump and into your own home. 

You’ll have to have a properly water contractor check out your pump. You would possibly want a brand new screening. 

Additionally, listed here are two choices to think about:

• Have a water properly contractor set up a sand separator in your pump. This machine makes use of centrifugal drive to push filth, sand and particles outward to the separator wall and downward in a spiral movement. The cleaned water then rises and returns again to your plumbing system. 
• Set up a sediment filter in your own home. There are a number of totally different choices obtainable, however we advocate the Braukmann Reverse rinsing fine filter.

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Easy Options

Improved Cleaning soap Dispenser — Kitchen-sink cleaning soap dispensers maintain such a small quantity of liquid cleaning soap that it requires you to continuously refill the reservoir bottle. Right here’s a greater possibility:

• Carry off the hand pump from the dispenser, pull off the plastic fill tube, and change it with a protracted versatile quarter-inch-diameter tubing.
• Feed the other finish of the tubing down via the opening within the sink deck and place it in a big jug of liquid cleaning soap.

Now you’ll by no means should refill the dispenser; merely change the cleaning soap jug as soon as it’s empty. 

Watch: Soap Dispenser Filling Tip

Clean Lower in Vinyl Siding — When utilizing a gap noticed to drill via vinyl siding, run the drill in reverse. That approach, the opening noticed will create a pleasant clear gap with no tough edges.

As soon as you chop via the siding, swap the drill to ahead and bore via the wall sheathing.

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