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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips: How to patch a big drywall hole in about 1 hour
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips. 25 Years of Basement Finishing has helped us come up with tricks and tips that may help you out on your project! Wednesday, October 12, 2011. How to patch a big drywall hole in about 1 hour. A water bucket with hot water, a mud pan. A 6" flexible blade, a 1" stiff blade, Sheetrock Easy Sand '5'. A drill, some 1 5/8 drywall screws, some lengths of 1x2 pine boards, a scrap of drywall and some. If mold or a water stain is involved. ALL TAPES ARE NOT MADE EQUAL! For holes, it ...
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips: How to re-caulk your shower or tub
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips. 25 Years of Basement Finishing has helped us come up with tricks and tips that may help you out on your project! Thursday, September 15, 2011. How to re-caulk your shower or tub. YES you have to do it every year or two. but I will walk you through the alternative. RECAULKING. Caulk does not stick to caulk. Never has, never will. ESPECIALLY not silicone. ONLY put 100% silicone in the shower. No additives. Take your time. and many breaks too! Next with a bunch of papertowels...
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips: Basement Insulation Tips
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips. 25 Years of Basement Finishing has helped us come up with tricks and tips that may help you out on your project! Sunday, April 18, 2010. The vapor barior that the paper backing is the only real important part of the insulation system in a basement. It allows the walls to breath moisture back and forth through the insulation and drywall, where plastic would not. Plastic should never be used in the walls because it traps water in the walls and facilitates mold growth. Email:...
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips: Framing Basement Walls: Moisture
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips. 25 Years of Basement Finishing has helped us come up with tricks and tips that may help you out on your project! Thursday, March 11, 2010. Framing Basement Walls: Moisture. It also is a must to leave at least a 1 inch gap between the framed walls and the foundation. This allows for there to be air circulation behind the walls, and it keeps moisture from wicking into the wood and insulation from the foundation. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Patch a drywall hole.
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips: Firestopping Before You Build
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips. 25 Years of Basement Finishing has helped us come up with tricks and tips that may help you out on your project! Thursday, March 11, 2010. Firestopping Before You Build. Before building the walls, drywall the area on the ceiling between the ceiling joists to the rim plate about 1 inch behind where the wall will be framed. they are usually about 5 inches wide and cut them to 4 feet long. Screw them to the ceiling framing, and use fire caulk. The bottom of stairwells needs t...
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips: Steel vs. Wood Stud Framing
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips. 25 Years of Basement Finishing has helped us come up with tricks and tips that may help you out on your project! Thursday, March 11, 2010. Steel vs. Wood Stud Framing. There are definitely positive and negatives to both framing with wood or steel. Steel studs can be cut with a metal sawblade, or the lighter gauge residential studs can be cut with metal snips. Framing long walls goes quickly, and if that is the majority of the job, it goes quickly. Unfortunately the...So lu...
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips: Your pump will fail
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Nantom Basement Finishing Tips. 25 Years of Basement Finishing has helped us come up with tricks and tips that may help you out on your project! Saturday, April 17, 2010. Your pump will fail. The very minimum option is to buy a floor water sensor. With piercing alarm for $11 at Home Depot, with a detatchable sensor that you can dangle 6 to 12 inches into the pit, and buying you time to fix the problem before the water table overflows onto the basement floor. 708-479-4570 Visit nantom.com.
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