Design Doctor: Home Life Editor Donna Hardie Answers Your DIY questions.Q MY parents have just moved house and want to add some interest to their new garden. They are both keen gardeners but would like some help with the lay-out. Where can they get some ideas? A ASourlives change, so does the way we use our garden. A family with children needs a play area and safe features. Now that they have more time, your parents could add a water feature, raised beds or even a pergola pergola Garden walk or terrace typically formed by two rows of columns or posts roofed with an open framework of beams and cross rafters over which plants are trained. Its purpose is to provide a foundation on which climbing plants can be viewed and to give shade. . Marshalls has just published a free brochure with tips on designs for young professionals, families with young and older children and the retired. Ring 0870 1207474for your free copy. Q OUR tap water often has a strange taste so I now buy bottled water. This takes up a lot of fridge space. Is there another way of keeping the water cool, without taking up so much space? A EBAC EBAC East Bay Agency for Children EBAC European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology EBAC Employee Benefits Advisory Committee EBAC Ethylene Butyl Acrylate EBAC Experience Based Admission Control EBAC Engine Brake Assist Control , the dehumidifier Dehumidifier Equipment designed to reduce the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. There are three methods by which water vapor may be removed: (1) the use of sorbent materials, (2) cooling to the required dew point, and (3) compression with aftercooling. maker, has managed to shrink down the commercial water cooler often seen in offices. The Eddy costs about pounds 69 and can take five- or six-litre bottles of mineral water. It takes up about the same amount of space as a filter coffee machine on your kitchen work surface. It's available from Waitrose, Northern Electric and independent stores, or call 01388 602751. Q HOWcan I make a bit more space in our garage? It's full of bikes and garden tools. A HOW about using an old door or piece of worktop worktop Noun a surface in a kitchen, usually the top of a fitted kitchen unit, which is used for food preparation Also: (work surface) worktop n → encimera to make a fold-down work area? Hinge one side to the garage wall and add hooks above so that it can be pushed flat when you finish working. Rothley's Stortech system uses lightweight metal struts A framework for writing Web-based applications in Java that supports the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. Struts is deployed as JSP pages using special tags from the Struts tag library, which includes routines for building forms, HTML rendering, storing and retrieving data and to support anything from ladders to skis under the garage roof. There's also a grille to hold smaller items. Ring Rothley on 01902 756461for details. Q I HAVE a modern kitchen with steel worktops but it's tiny. Are there any slimline steel-finish dishwashers I could fit? A SEVERAL makers, such as Siemens (01780 722123) produce narrow dishwashers - normally 45cm wide compared to the normal 60cm - which handle eight place-settings. If you can make do with a five place-setting capacity machine, take a look at the compact worktop versions. Zanussi (08705 727727) has just updated its model range with the DCS (1) See also DSC. (2) Digital Cross-connect System) A network switching and grooming device used by telecom carriers. See digital cross-connect. 14. It comes in trendy silver and has variable wash programs. It's pounds 299 from Comet. Q I HAVEbought my first house and would like to make some very simple shelves and a radiator cabinet. I don't like the idea of using noisy power saws, so what could I buy instead? A MY tool of the week is the Scorpion scorpion, any arachnid of the order Scorpionida with a hollow poisonous stinger at the tip of the tail. Scorpions vary from about 1/2 in. to about 6 in. (1–15 cm) long; most are from 1 to 3 in. (2.5–7.6 cm) long. from Black & Decker. It works like a hand saw but has the power to cut through wood, metal and plastics. It's not as noisy as a circular saw and the shape makes it easy to control. There's also a two- position lock-off switch, so it won't accidentally start when you pick it up by the handle. The Scorpion sells for about pounds 69 at DIY DIY abbr. do-it-yourself DIY or d.i.y. Brit, Austral & NZ do-it-yourself DIY abbr DIY do it yourself a DIY shop/job. stores. Q AS PART of renovating an old house, we are laying new floorboards. Some are badly warped. How can I lay them tightly together? A FIT the first board parallel to the wall and fix with floorboard brads or screws. If the next board is warped, temporarily hammer a block of wood into the joist adjacent to the gap but a couple of inches away from the board. Tap a couple of wooden wedges between the block and the board edge to push the wood straight. Fix the board and work across the room using the block and wedges on all the warped pieces. Q WE'VE only used our barbecue half a dozen times but the rain has made the metal base rusty. Can I treat this with something? A REMOVE as much rust as you can with a stiff wire brush wire brush n → brosse f métallique wire brush wire n → Drahtbürste f wire brush n → and scrub off any old grease with detergent. Once the metal is completely dry, you can renovate the rusty parts - but not with ordinary metal paint. Hammerite's Barbecue Paint (01661 830000) is able to withstand heat up to 475 deg C. The other advantage is that you can spray it on without having to use a metal primer paint first. Expect to pay pounds 5.99 for a spray can from DIY stores. Q HOW can I repair a blister blister, puffy swelling of the outer skin (epidermis) caused by burn, friction, or irritants like poison ivy. A response of the body to protect deeper tissue, blisters generally contain serum, the liquid component of blood. in the veneer of a treasured Art Deco art deco (ärt dĕkō`; är dākō`, ärt) or art moderne (är môdĕrn`, ärt) drinks cabinet? A YOU should be able to flatten flatten - To remove structural information, especially to filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to flat ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent canonical form." the blister, but you will have to work very carefully or the loose piece will break away. Use the tip of a craft knife to clean out any old glue under the blister. Next, spread some glue on the blade and push this under the veneer. Clamp the veneer flat until it has dried, or lay a heavy weight over it overnight. |
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