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Hacks specific to the home, as opposed to a public place or place of work.
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How to lessen / dampen the noise of creaking floor boards?
Lift the carpet. Hammer down the nails that have come loose. Replace the carpet.
Optionally
You can add screws to hold the plywood sub-flooring to the joists. Screws have a roughly 40% better "grip" …
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How to see where I've already painted?
Using painter's tape, mark sections of the wall. Start in a corner. When you paint up to the tape mark, remove the tape. The areas that haven't been painted will still have tape on them.
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How to make non-drinkable seawater drinkable?
One of the simpler systems involves gravity fed filtration, often with sand and/or coal as the filter medium. Using a three container construction, you put salt water in the top container. It drips in …
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Screw is rusted to the point that it is completely rounded off. How to remove?
You can drill out the old screw. You should use a center punch to insure that you place your drill bit in the middle of the screw.
If the old screw head is completely rusted, you can just remove the …
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How to get stains out of the garage floor
Found at: http://www.rd.com/home/cleaning-concrete-stains/ …
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How to fix a keyboard with a missing leg?
Place some kind of wedge between the keyboard and the surface on which it rests. I have used pennies, folded paper, and small notepads (the glued together paper kind). You can use any material handy ( …
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What is a good way to organise and identify keys on a keyring?
I have added notches to the side of the key head in the past. One of the advantages to using this method is that you can find the correct key in the dark.
Start with this:
Take a file to the edge …