Experts share some of the most common DIY painting mistakes and how to avoid them.
Home and Garden
There are two types of cracking of tomatoes, longitudinal cracks and radial cracking. Radial cracking is mostly a varietal issue.
You can get a cheap toilet for around $100, and you can spend several hundred dollars for the high-end models. Spending more doesn’t necessarily mean you are getting a better toilet. What it usually means is that it’s more decorative.
Nitrogen causes stem growth as well as dark green leaf color. Adding only an iron fertilizer or chelate causes the new growth to become green but does not stimulate new growth that much.
Walk-in tubs provide more stability during bathing than traditional bathtubs. Once inside, the bather can sit down in a preformed chair that is part of the tub.
Caulking is a fix-all for all sorts of situations since it’s a great adhesive in a pinch, but it shines at filling gaps. You might even call it “weatherstripping in a tube.”
Phone apps are good for predicting a possible freeze, but nothing replaces verification that an actual freeze happened. Maximum/minimum thermometers are a good bench check against your phone app or the National Weather Service predictions.
Peel-and-stick vinyl tile backsplashes look great in kitchens and bathrooms. Installation is a relatively inexpensive ordeal. And it’s easy.
Once a landscape design is finished, the amount of water it needs is fixed. You won’t be able to change the amount it needs, by much, without removing plants or changing them.
A long-time pool-building veteran says sales are up about 40 percent this year, and it’s largely the result of people being stuck at home and looking to make their backyard more of an entertainment oasis.
It common for the chitalpa tree to partially defoliate in the summer.
To create a kitchen island, buy a pair of base cabinets and screw them together. Look for the right cabinet (or cabinets) so that the look fits the room and doesn’t crowd it too much.
In 2015, J.P. Strate and Liz Spillman founded The Rehab Life, a popular YouTube channel that demonstrates step-by-step instructions for furniture and design projects. Piggybacking off the channel’s success, the longtime friends wrote their first book, “One Day DIY: Modern Farmhouse Furniture,” a how-to guide for handcrafting nearly two dozen furniture and accent pieces.
A porcelain kitchen sink repair won’t be flawless, but you can fool most people with it.
Desert willow can look shaggy during the winter because of the brown seedpods that hang from the tree. The seedpods provide a good supply of birdseed for various desert birds during the fall and winter months.
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