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How can I seal around a light fixture/light switch outlet?
I Have a house built in 1972. I'm currently 80% finished in installing a ceiling fan into my master bedroom.
I had an energy audit about a month ago, which revealed that I had "pretty good sealing" ...
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Should windows be sealed from the outside before the capping is done?
If a regular vinyl window is replaced, and the foam is applied from the inside around the window, should it be also sealed / caulked from the outside before the capping is done?
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How do I seal a painted deck?
The builders of my home painted my front and back porch. The railings are white, and the decking itself is the same color as the house. It looks great, but the paint has all peeled up.
I'm in the ...
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What type of mortar would I use to seal cracks in our chimney?
We've got a brick chimney that's ~25 years old and it's got a quite a few cracks in the mortar (some hairline, some as thick is a quarter).
What's the best way to seal all those cracks? I assume ...
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How necessary is it to put sealer on a painted dresser?
I sanded and painted a wooden dresser. The rep at Lowe's said I don't need a separate sealer, but that sounds fishy to me. Should I put sealer on it too?
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How do I adjust this balcony door so that it doesn't let cold air in?
A PVC balcony door that separates the room from the outdoors (which is currently −20 Celsius) is about six feet tall and about two feet wide. It is attached with two hinges - the upper one
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Sealant used to prevent water getting between bath and wall?
What's the name of the 'rubbery' sealant they use between the bath and the wall, and why don't they use it in between the wall tiles? They use a hard grouting between wall tiles, but if the weight of ...
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How can I join PVC pipe in a food safe way?
I want to close a rectangular vertically mounted pipe with a piece of flat PVC plastic.
I will use the pipe for growing herbs on the wall outside my house, so it needs to be non-toxic.
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What is “skin” time for bathroom sealant?
I need to replace the bathroom sealant around our bath, as our bath has moved by about a cm over the years and the watertight seal has broken.
The sealant I have says "Skins in 15 minutes, dries in ...
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How do I keep the plastic window insulators sealed when the window has a sill?
Last winter I covered my windows in my apartment with a window sealing kit so keep out any drafts. The winds and temperatures are pretty extreme around here and the plastic would peel away from some ...
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Is the permeability of normal shellac (flakes dissolved in spirits) the same as Zinsser B-I-N sealer?
I've made a whole batch of clear shellac for sealing ceiling and concrete floors in a heavily nicotine damaged apartment.
But I'm worried now that there may be some differences between them, such as ...
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How do I fix a gap in my refrigerator door gasket seal?
Today I noticed that the gasket seal surrounding the refrigerator door has a bit of a gap along the lower quarter of the door. The photo below shows my refrigerator door - notice how the white gasket ...
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Sealing, Priming, and Painting a Window
I have a house full of wooden windows with some old flaking paint. The wood is quite solid, the glass is intact and not fogging. I was planning on scraping the windows and repainting them. My question ...
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How to repair botched, colored concrete?
We have a back patio with colored concrete that was poured last year. When the concrete was poured, it looked like the color was only picked up by the first half of the pour. The contractor poured the ...
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Is it possible to fix a leak in PP-R piping by injecting some type of substance?
I have a central heating system based on PP-R piping and radiators. The PP-R piping goes under the floor. The problem is that the pressure is droping 0.2 atm / week and I am sure there's a leak ...
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Waterproof seal between two submersed pipes
I have an odd problem. Essentially I am working on fabricating a connection between two fiberglass pipes that are intended to be submerged underwater (depth 30ft). No water should make it inside of ...
