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Comments (12)Drain rocks in a muddy hole won't help it drain. You will just have a muddy hole full of rocks. You would be surprised how often this is done. Water runs downhill so find a place for it to go. There must be a general slope to your area. Have the water follow it. I try to capture as much water as possible without puddling and have it drip dry when it's not raining. Think of you planting beds as a thick quilt that aborbs water, but releases it also. One method I have used is to have a ditch dividing the lawn from the planting beds that excess water can drain into. Not fast but seeping. The shallow ditch is filled with mulch. The slope of the ditch has to be consistant so puddles don't form under the mulch. In difficult situations I have used perforated ADS pipe, (Black corrugated) buried under several inches of mulch to handle excess water. Chemicals, if you use them, don't drain from the lawn into the beds and they don't drain from the beds on to the lawn. You may have to rethink the shape of your lawn to make this work, but if you think of the lawn shape as water it's not too difficult. As a general rule, the wetter it is, the more you contour it, the flatter it is, less contour is called for. In 25 years of designing and installing yards here in the Seattle area, I have come across a lot of situations dealing with water. I started at the gutters and worked down. In some cases I had to work with the neighbors of my clients to make things work. Without pictures or an on site inspection it is difficult to come up the the best solution, but I hope this helps. Botann@aol.com...See MoreRestoring kitchen in vacation home...
Comments (16)I'm not really a fan of oak but that wood looks very good in the pix. I'd hesitate to paint because then you've added a maintenance issue to a vacay place. If you're the only one that uses it, then it wouldn't be a worry since you won't use it heavily and will maintain it properly. But just the painting will add more work for you or expense to hire it out. Do you rent the place out? Renters, not all but many, are hard on things that don't belong to them and chipping may become an issue. Hired cleaners might not be as, what's the word I want?, careful as you would be when wiping up splashes, or not wiping up splashes, and that might prematurely age the painted cabs. They have a lot of units to turnover on a Saturday so tender loving care and a thorough cleaning might not be practical. I don't have any helpful suggestions, I just wanted to throw out the possibility of maintenance issues for consideration. I'm sensitive to this because my cabinets are painted and showing their age, but these are in my regular house and get used harder than a vacay home....See Moreany idea what my vintage sink find is made of and how to restore?
Comments (4)The problem spots in those porcelain over stamped steel sinks are around the faucet holes and the drains ... I see rusting out at the faucet holes, which may make it impossible to install a faucet. Check under the drain - remove the fitting - and make sure it's not too rusted out to hold the fitting. If it's rusted out, I doubt they can be repaired, although there are some great epoxies for mending metals....See MoreIdeas for Restoring Handmade Ornaments?
Comments (7)Yeah, rhizo I think that's it. I was trying today to remember what the name of that dough was. I just remember the salty feel to it. Whatever it was these things are still as hard and solid as little rocks 40 years later. It was a fun project. Thanks for the suggestions. Party, yes, the hanger was stuck into the top of the head of each dough character before he/she was baked. So when the hanger rusted and fell away the hole is still there. I wish I could think of a way to attach a new hanger in the existing hole. Maybe gorilla glue would work. .....See MoreKay p
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