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The actual reason this usually works is that rust is significantly larger than the steel it's rusted from, which is why the bolt is stuck in the first place. In some other instances the reason heat wo …

A bit late now, but adhesives/tile mastics from the 1960's often imply "check for asbestos before making dust out of them." It's not the "classic black mastic" but still... Remove the drywall, adhesiv …

Prepare the base for the shed and tiles in the new location. Unscrew the shed. Set it aside. Move the tiles to the new location. Move the shed onto the tiles. Screw the shed down. If moving the whol …

You can go at it with a sledgehammer (or a smaller hand sledge) and a star drill, and then drive wedges into the holes (or if you are patient, fill the holes with water and let them freeze in the wint …

"Metal Dowels" are quite easy to come by... ...if you shop the right places. Look for spring dowel pins and ignore the results that don't look mostly like this. They come in many sizes. You'll probabl …

You should remove and dispose of (securely) all the poisoned bait, before you kill (or kill more of) your neighbor's pet animals, directly or through ingesting poisoned squirrels. Likewise the predato …

Use a small hole saw to drill out a wood plug around the nail. The method you have been using also works, obviously, though you don't need to clear so much area to get the grips on. You can either le …

Use a thin prybar, carefully. Look closely at the joints on the bottom trim piece that's in your way, and you'll note that it's not "locked in" to the rest of the frame - because that piece was insta …

grabbed the conduit connector that is behind with pliers Threaded conduit is basically high-quality (smoother inside) pipe. Given you have an old cast aluminum box with (probably) galvanized steel c …

Better to cut the new piece of furniture. Otherwise the process looks like: Remove or reduce pillar. Furniture fits. House falls on it. Were you in the house at the time? Too bad. Pillars for no reaso …

A number of guilty teenagers, a broom or two, a shovel, a wheelbarrow. Your job is to point out when the job has not been completed to your satisfaction, until it has been. Your job is definitely NOT …

Leave it in place, use masking tape, paint around it....

Have you the faintest clue what 10 feet of chimney weighs? "reinforce here" to WHAT exactly, that's going to hold up 10 feet of bricks? This is a bad, terrible unthinkable idea. Take it down from th …

I'd like to get rid of the ceramic tile without disturbing the asbestos tiles underneath. Is this possible?? Probably not. The ceramic tiles are serving as the "encapsulant" for the old asbestos …

You could try running a putty knife or something behind them, but my actual advice for removing them is to have the spackle or drywall compound and paint handy, as scars are to be expected. Hmm - hea …