Flushing a hot water heater is an important chore should be done at least once a year. We'll show you how to drain a hot water heater.

In this video I show you how to easily repair broken concrete stairs with Quikcrete quick-setting cement.

Items I used for this repair:
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Drill bit - https://amzn.to/3nph17a
Cement - https://amzn.to/3t4ux1m
Bonding Adhesive - https://amzn.to/3UL1Cxs
Drill - https://amzn.to/3nt7pIH
Wire Brush - https://amzn.to/2PrRnC2
Trowel - https://amzn.to/3tZwgWU
Cold Chisels - https://amzn.to/3aKKXFy
Sponge - https://amzn.to/32TQ8yH
My Favorite Hammer EVER! - https://amzn.to/3eDEY6C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOXBBujIIYM

https://www.housebeautiful.com/home-remodeling/diy-projects/a43471159/how-to-repair-concrete-steps/

Bill Robinson says that you can avoid water infiltration by keeping in mind the four Ds: deflection, drainage, drying, and durability.

Contractor who remodeled our bathroom used non-sanded grout between bathtub (acrylic) and first layer of tile. He said that he recommends that instead of caulk as caulk will be trapping moisture and

• FILL THE TUB TO WEIGH IT DOWN!

• Take your time. Don't rush it or you'll be doing it again within a year or two. It might take two nights to get the old caulk all out. So what. You want a job that will last.

• Clean out all the old caulk. Use a 1" paint scraper, razor blade scraper, knife, maybe high grit sandpaper so long as the part sanded will be caulked over.

• Buy the most expensive Tub and Tile caulk you can find. I prefer GE. You don't want to have to do the job again and $10 - $15 isn't much when you consider the aggravation of redoing it.

• Right before caulking saturate a portion of a clean cloth with rubbing alcohol and force it into the joint. Wipe it once from each direction to make sure its clean. Then let it dry.

• Cut the caulk tube diameter to the width of the average gap.

• Caulk the gap, not the tub or tile outside surface. The caulk needs to contact both inner surfaces, but for aesthetics, don't overlap the two outside surfaces more than about 1/8".

• After caulking the gap along one wall, dip the smallest finger that will bridge the gap in rubbing alcohol and quickly and firmly wipe straight down the gap. If not suitable, wipe the finger with a piece of toilet paper, fold, discard, re-Hopdip finger in alcohol, and repeat.

• PULL TAPE IMMEDIATELY! DON'T LET THE CAULK SET

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLnVB-u0txs

These incredible tips from The Family Handyman readers and editors will help you complete your woodworking projects faster and better than ever before!

2. Get Dents Out of Wood
3. The Brown Paper Bag Trick for Finishing
4. Hot Glue Whenever You Need It
5. Sanding Station For Small Parts
6. Pencil Hack for Perfectly Flat Boards
7. Quick Woodworking File from Paint Stick
8. Combo Square Ad-Hoc Micrometer

Looking for an easy DIY project? You won't believe these before-and-after spray paint photos!

Make your own DIY leather desk pad with this quick and easy beginner leather project; leatherworking tools are optional!

Where I get my leather (UK): https://majestichides.co.uk/3sqft-21x21--pit-veg-tanned-brown-crazy-horse-leather-hides-1748-p.asp

4mm full-grain veg-tanning (stiffer)

Tools I use in my leather projects (updated to what I use NOW):
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Edge beveller 0.6mm: https://amzn.to/3iim4G5
Tokenole edge burnisher: https://amzn.to/3ixY0yS
Low cost Japanese skiving knife: https://amzn.to/3fG8hHw
Awesome rotary cutter: https://amzn.to/3uLcQEw
Cutting mat: https://amzn.to/34HhoBu
Edge paint marker: https://amzn.to/2S8uNj8
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This beginner leather tutorial goes through the process of making your own DIY leather desk mat, from materials, to tooling, to the making process. This project can be completed with tools you will already have around the house, but I also show how some beginner leather tooling can be used to improve the overall quality of your leather desk pad.

If you are new to leather craft, this video is the latest in a short series of tutorials on leather crafting for beginners. While I usually include free leather patterns for you to download, there is no specific leather desk pad pattern so that you can design this to suit your specific needs! The desk pad made in this video is 23x12": a pretty standard small sized desk pad which works perfectly as a keyboard mat and an easy DIY mouse pad, or as a place to work on your laptop!

If you want to quickly improve your strength and coordination, almost nothing beats parallettes training. But not many people have a set of p-bars hanging around. In fact most people have never heard of them.

Part 1 has some basics about sewing in zippers (it’s easy! really!!) and making various small bags and pouches that can be great as travel accessories, school supplies, a way to organize your backpack or all those chargers and cords, etc.

Part 2 extends the same concepts a little further to make two different styles of duffel bag. These look complicated and fancy, but I promise you they are easier than they look and quite accessible.

A few years back I discovered that even a person of limited soldering skills can create a nifty surround-sound system with the magic of a passive matrix decoder system; the results pleased me and continue to, It's certainly not a big and fancy surround system, but I recommend it highly as a project with a high ratio of satisfaction to effort. (Here's one of the many, many tutorials out there on doing it yourself; it's not the long-forgotten one I actually used, but I like this one better.) I like listening to recorded music sometimes just to hear how a particular playback system sounds, not just to hear the music "as intended." I'd like to find some more audio hacks and tricks like this that are cheap, easy, and fun. Bonus points if they can be done with the assistance of a couple of smart children, without boring them too much. I have access to Goodwill and other thrift stores that are usually overflowing with cheap-and-cheerful gear, to match my toy budget. What mods or fixes would be fun to implement? Are there brands or models of turntable I should look for as the easiest with which to tinker? Are there cool easy-entry projects akin to that surround sound system that I could use to improve my radio reception? I'm not sure what's out there, but I'd like to get some cool use out of the closet-and-a-half I've got filled with speakers and other gear that I can't quite bear to toss, since "it still works."

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