Oct01

Coping With Coping

Coping a molding such as a chair rail, crown or baseboard takes time, talent and tenacity. Its not something that can be mastered overnight but with a little patience and practice you can be coping like a pro.

First of all, why cope at all? Why not miter your joints? Mitering is great if all of your corners are square. If not, you either have to play with your miter or live with the big gaps. Sometimes compound mitering is required to get a tight joint. Playing with your miter, in my opinion, is often much more time consuming than coping. It requires you make numerous cuts to find the right angle so your molding sits flush against the wall and tight in the corner. Now you will always need to do some playing on the outside corners because there is no coping for out side corners but you still cut your time in half by coping inside corners. Again this is most true in old houses where the walls are not square anymore. With coping you can put the inside corner together at almost any angle and have a nice tight joint.
The first thing you need to cope is a good coping saw. This saw is shaped like a big “D” with a handle on it. The blade is very thin and can be turned on a very tight corner when needed. Learning how to use a coping saw is not hard. It does take patience. Using pieces of scrap molding you can practice a few times before beginning your installation.

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Oct01

5 One Off Jobs

With spring just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about those little jobs you’ve been neglecting. Bad news is that they’ve probably turned into big jobs while you were busy doing other things, but these tips on the five biggest one off cleaning jobs ought to help you out when you finally get around to doing them.

#1 – End of tenancy cleaning. For end of tenancy cleaning London landlords and lettings agents have some fairly strict, and potentially expensive, regulations. If you plan on vacating your current property in the near future, you have a seriously big one off cleaning job on your hands. Consult your landlord or lettings agent for a cleaning checklist, and call a professional if you’re running short of time or think you won’t be able to get it all done yourself.

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Nov11

Bathroom Cabinet Options For Your Bathroom

Bathroom Cabinets for the UK Market come in various shapes, colors and sizes to suit the mood and style. With a mind-boggling array of designs to choose from that have features like lighting and in-built sockets for shaving purposes; cabinets are available in choices of single, double or triple door varieties.

People need storage space but are not ready to compromise on refurbishing their bathroom to accommodate storage. That´s when the need for a Bathroom Cabinet comes in and there are many Bathroom Cabinets for the UK Market that are available which have facilities to be hung against the bathroom wall or under the sink or in a corner where one does not have to run out of space for storage. There are many uses for cabinets that do not limit itself to storage, it also has to lend an aesthetic appeal and combine two or three uses into one. It comes in a range to match your furniture so that it does not have to stick out like a sore thumb. Blending, mixing and matching choices are available in steel, wood and aluminum in sizes that you need.

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Mar20

3 Ways to Use Corner Space More Effectively

Many of us simply don’t have enough storage space or space at all. There are plenty of reasons for this. They include that many of us live in urban environments where space, and apartments, are in short supply and small. Part of the reason is that we all own far more stuff than we probably need, surely dozens or more times the amount of stuff that out grandparents could even imagine owning. And of course even if we don’t accumulate possessions, we probably have a spouse or children that do. And of course it all has to be stored or displayed somewhere if we don’t want to look like pack rats, even if we have a pack rat or two in the family.

There are lots of spaces that often go underutilized, including closets (some organization would help us store more and better there), under beds which can be great for seasonal footwear and more, and certainly corners. Corners usually are simply empty, perhaps with a chair or other piece of furniture in front of them, or may simply have a pile of unorganized stuff temporarily placed there from months ago.

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