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Find out leak in airbed?
You could better use method as shown:
Using soap water
Take some soap water in a spray bottle
Inflate your air bed to full air
Close the nozzle
Spray the content from bottle(start from nozzle)
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Air Conditioner/Coolers best substitute
Ok so this question has been around quite some time. I'm going to answer anyway since the most effective way - from my experience - hasn't been mentioned yet.
There are lots of ways to help you deal ...
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How to store books in less than ideal conditions?
Know thy enemy
Your books worst enemy is of course, humidity. Humidity is also conditio sine qua non for the dreaded mold that will happily munch on the cellulose leaving behind not much in the way ...
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How to get rid of bug stuck into eyes?
Today I went for visiting a hill-station spot and while returning, a tiny fly went into my eyes. Eyes started burning but somehow I drove back home. I started splashing my eyes like water pump machine ...
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Can a tissue paper make a good air filter?
tissue paper can be used as a filter for particulates in air, but because the material itself is so weak, a strong flow of air through it will cause it to tear to pieces.
In addition, even if it ...
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How to hangout with smoking dudes but not inhaling 2nd hand smoke
If it's a breezy day, stand up-wind from them.
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Fix air flow in single window gallery apartment
I recommend the following, if the layout permits it:
You can buy a product called dryer duct which is a large flexible tube of corrugated aluminum which is used to connect the exhaust port of a ...
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How to improve air quality in an old storage room?
My first attempt would indeed be to inspect the wardrobes. If there's a continuous source of bad smell somewhere, you can throw all the fresh air in you want, but it will continue to come back.
On the ...
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Protect house from mould
Mold requires lots of humidity in the air to grow. The quickest way to decrease mold growth in a house is to decrease the humidity inside the house.
This usually is done by 1) circulating the air in ...
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How to clean air indoors
The particles you're worried about are too small to be trapped by an improvised filter. A vacuum cleaner won't trap these either. You really need a purpose-made HEPA filter as used in air purifiers ...
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How to clean air indoors
A 50 cm (20 in) cardboard-framed air filter, availblef for ~US$3, is the size of many box fans. Though electret filters are more efficient at trapping particles, I find they impede airflow too much ...
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How to get rid of bug stuck into eyes?
Simple Technique to remove anything trapped under your eyelid.
Using your clean fingers, hold the eyelashes (of the eyelid with the offending material trapped underneath)
Pull it down (or up if its ...
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Protect house from mould
The answer from @nielsnielsen is a good start. I would add that in some extreme cases, a de-humidifier might also help. Read about the topic on the net.
However, the air humidity itself is not the ...
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How to reduce intensity of air flow from my window AC unit
My hack is to obtain a length of bamboo or similar and tape it to the curtain rod at one end, and to the shelf at the other end. Shown as the orange line in this picture.
Then hang some fabric from ...
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Getting airflow in a studio apartment with one-window
Getting airflow in a studio apartment with one-window?
Sensing that this question may pertain to many others in various situations, I will give a response as follows:
We all know hot air rises.
Thus I ...
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Fix air flow in single window gallery apartment
@nielsnielsen already provides you a hack with the flexible tube and the ventilator.
However, the best / proper solution, (even if you do not have he rights to implement it - it is your friend's ...
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How to eliminate humidity / bad smell on an apartment?
I have noticed the weird humidity smell that comes out of the ducts
I guess that the Central Air System is not your property and you are not responsible for its maintenance.
Since the stink seems to ...
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Protect house from mould
This isn't a hack but you do need to ventilate rooms, to reduce the water that mould needs to grow, even if you think you are "throwing money away" by letting heat out.
One source of moisture (apart ...
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How to hangout with smoking dudes but not inhaling 2nd hand smoke
There is pretty much nothing you can do about this other than keeping some distance from them or requesting them not to smoke when you are around (you may cook up some health issues like asthma,etc)
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Can a tissue paper make a good air filter?
First: When you say "the particles it filters out would sit right on its surface, pile up there, and quickly plug up the pores in it and stop the flow of air through it" don't forget that in reality, ...
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How to store books in less than ideal conditions?
The novel Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle had a scene where a character "stored" a collection of books that would be important to the future (re)development of an industrial ...
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Find out leak in airbed?
An alternative, as recently discussed on Bicycles, is to have your hand slightly wet and stroke the airbed in a regular pattern, so your hand covers the whole at one time or an other.
First of all, ...
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Find out leak in airbed?
There are kits available to repair these beds once you locate the spot where its leaking. Using a product called Spray 9 diluted with water in a squirt bottle works good.The leak is very likely at the ...
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How can I improve air quality in my car?
Have you considered changing your air filter over to a different filter? It sounds like the air isn't being filtered in your vehicle very well.
Vinegar sprays also work well with window residue - but ...
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Inhaling less chalk dust while erasing blackboard during teaching
Rather than move the eraser from side-to-side, right-to-left, left-to-right; wipe from the top to the bottom. Move across the board repeating your movement from top-to-bottom only—lifting the eraser ...
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How to Avert / Deflect refrigerator heat in room?
Back in the day refrigerators had exposed radiators. I suppose what he and I both want to do is have the radiator heat released outside like modern air conditioners, not just vented or fan forced ...
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What are some quick ways to cool off at home, in extreme heat, if the electricity has gone out?
For a water conservation alternative to the answer from @Lefty I find that having a wash cloth soaked in cold water is very beneficial.
Wipe the wet wash cloth over your face to wet it and then wrap ...
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Ways to stop your Beach blanket from blowing away
Where I come from, you can get small weights with a small alligator clip attached, they are used for tying down tablecloths when eating outside.
Typically they're made of plastic, shaped like a small ...
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How to quickly remove odors from the air?
If you have fan in the room you can turn it on and move close to the smell source. If you don't have it, just use something for ventilation, for example part of your clothes or list of paper.
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