Category Archives: Home Improvement

How to Decorate and Design a Home Kitchen

 Your home's kitchen is where you have lots of fond memories between you and your families. Therefore, it is important for you to have a good layout of your own kitchen. Besides that, you also need to create a well-defined traffic routes especially where the zone for you to function as a chef without being ...

How to Repair Exterior Siding

 Exterior siding is a building material or the wall covering of boards fastened to your exterior building frame or sheathing. It helps you protect the house damage done by the sun and moisture. Sidings are made of several natural or even man-made materials such as wood, vinyl, and aluminum. You need to immediately repair the ...

How to Repair Siding Corners

 Although it is a tedious task for you to repair siding corners, it still can be done if it is planned carefully and you have the knowledge on how to do it. Basically it all depends on the damaged that has occurred to your siding. You can even replace the entire piece of your siding ...

How to Install Exterior Plywood Siding

 Compare to other types of exterior finishes, plywood siding cost much cheaper and it is available in various sizes like 4-by-8, 4-by-9 and 4-by-10 foot sheets while its thicknesses varies from 3/8 inch, 1/2 inch or 5/8 inch. Before you start any of your installation of plywood siding, you must ensure that measure the plywood ...

How to Repair a Hole in Aluminum Siding

 Although aluminum siding used to be popular a few decades ago, there are still some house owner who still maintain the usage of this material for their house. Aluminum siding can also provide you with a durable and long-lasting exterior but sometimes accident happen and it might caused your aluminum siding to get dented and ...

How to Finish Repairing the Siding on a Home

 The most important tips to finish repairing the siding of your house are to finish the exterior before you start to install it to your house in the first place. This can be achieved by using pre-finishing siding materials available at your local home improvement center in order for you to achieve outstanding results and ...

How to Work With Reclaimed Wood

 Most of us use reclaimed or recycled wood due to a few reasons. One of the reasons is because all wood acquires a patina with age and the longer its lifetime the looks of the wood will be much better. You will notice that old growth lumber comes with a tight grain pattern and when ...

How to Repair Exterior Cedar Siding

 One of a traditional exterior building material that can beautify and protects any addition of your house is cedar siding. The cedar siding can adds a lot of richness and warmth to your home's exterior. Even though the cedar siding is also water resistant and durable, over time it still can be damaged due to ...

How to Mark the Wall for Siding Repair

 Most of the time house owners are required to do repair work on the siding of their house due to the weather elements or even because of occasional item that hits the side of the house like a fallen tree. In order to repair your exterior siding, it does not involve the task of replacing ...

How to Replace Exterior Siding

 If you notice that your clapboards or shakes are damaged or broken, your exterior siding will no longer be able to do a good job and need to be replaced with a new one. It can no longer prevent air, water, dirt or even insects from penetrating into your walls. It can also allow decay ...

How to Sell Reclaimed Wood Flooring

 You can simply look for reclaimed wood flooring not only when you are remodeling your very own floorboards of your home, but also from abandoned factories or rural buildings, mills and condemned properties. If you find that the woods are still in good condition, you can even use it to add more character to your ...

How to Install Exterior Vinyl Siding

 Most of us like to install vinyl siding in order to cover the exterior of our house. The reason for using vinyl is because it is designed to hang loosely from the side of the house that allows the expansion of temperature and contraction without damaging the siding or even the house. Apart from that, ...

How to Reuse Old Wood Pallets

 One of the ways for you to go green within your house is by reusing your old wood pallets that is also an inexpensive method to apply them in your house. Your old wood pallets can contribute a lot in order for you to create a green concept house. For example, you could reuse a ...

How to Use Wood From Old Barns

 If you have old barn woods that are still in good condition and no rot has set into the wood, it is always a good material for you to recycle and make it into good use. The old planks and batten strips covering the old structures are normally much thicker, stronger and having dense nature ...

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