Tips to Easily Manage your Tools for Home Repair
Owning a house and living in it, definitely has its own merits and demerits. While you don't have to bother about your house landlord breathing down your neck for every month's rent, you certainly have certain other things to worry about while living in your own home.
Taking care of each and every inch of your home may feel like a burden initially, and if you are living in a location that faces extreme climates throughout the year, you may need to get your home repair work done more frequently.
Check below an interesting infographic about home repair trend in America
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Why is it necessary to learn Do-It-Yourself Home Repair?
Around 64% of American home owners don't have $1000 savings for home repairs. 1 in 5 home owners say they put off completing repairs on their home, and around 39% of home owners say it is hard to find a reliable repair service.
It is always good to take care of that minor leakage or that small dent in their initial phases, otherwise the problems may aggravate and you might have to spend a lot getting things back in place. The good thing is that you can always save a good deal of money and rely on your own shoulders to fix little things in your house, provided you decide to take the responsibility, get a few necessary tools and trust your gut to know what little things you can do yourself to keep your home in shape.
If you've already got your tools, nails and beads in place, here are a few tips that can help you save a lot of time, efforts and money in taking proper care of them:
1) Notepad for measurements:
It is easy to take note of that window's measurements in your mind, but the moment you reach hardware shop to get that particular glass pane, you might feel lost remembering all the dimensions. It is always advisable to keep a measurement notebook and a pen in your toolkit to record the measurements.
2) Silica gel to keep your tools rust free.
Remember seeing those little packets that you get in a box of chewing gum, or in the new suitcases? Instead of throwing them off, keep them in your tool kit and in between your collection of nails and beads. These packets are excellent in absorbing excess moisture and keep your tools and metal stuffs rust free.
3) Hang drill on the side of the ladder
While using a drilling machine while working standing on a ladder, it becomes a tedious job to come down the ladder and keep the drill down, and go up again, just to fix that small screw at its place. Imagine how strenuous it would be if there are 10s or 20s of screws to be fitted. Instead of doing all the military work going up and down for keeping and picking your drill, hang it to the sides of your ladder by coiling the wire 3-4 times around and supporting the drill on one of the case. It'll save you a lot of energy.
4) Candle to ease up the screw driving
Many times the screws get roughed up in the tool box and it becomes difficult placing them using screw drive. To smoothen their surfaces, always keep a candle in your kit. Rubbing the surface of a screw on candle wax can definitely ease up your job of putting it in that wooden plank using your screw driver.
5) Use cello tape to pick up scattered pins, beads and nails. In case it is all metal, use magnet.
Once you start building your own home repair toolkit, you might see lots of minute things in it - nails, beads, smaller nails, pins etc. Many times in all the activity, you might drop your toolkit and it feels like a lot of work picking all the stuff back. Here, you can use a cello tape for your rescue. Just wrap the cello tape around your hand, with sticky side up and press it on the floor to pick up the little pieces. It'll grab the stuffs in chunks and you can easily scrap them off in your tool kit. A good magnet can also do the trick, if all that's dropped is metal.
Taking care of each and every inch of your home may feel like a burden initially, and if you are living in a location that faces extreme climates throughout the year, you may need to get your home repair work done more frequently.
Check below an interesting infographic about home repair trend in America
Image Source
Why is it necessary to learn Do-It-Yourself Home Repair?
Around 64% of American home owners don't have $1000 savings for home repairs. 1 in 5 home owners say they put off completing repairs on their home, and around 39% of home owners say it is hard to find a reliable repair service.
It is always good to take care of that minor leakage or that small dent in their initial phases, otherwise the problems may aggravate and you might have to spend a lot getting things back in place. The good thing is that you can always save a good deal of money and rely on your own shoulders to fix little things in your house, provided you decide to take the responsibility, get a few necessary tools and trust your gut to know what little things you can do yourself to keep your home in shape.
If you've already got your tools, nails and beads in place, here are a few tips that can help you save a lot of time, efforts and money in taking proper care of them:
1) Notepad for measurements:
It is easy to take note of that window's measurements in your mind, but the moment you reach hardware shop to get that particular glass pane, you might feel lost remembering all the dimensions. It is always advisable to keep a measurement notebook and a pen in your toolkit to record the measurements.
2) Silica gel to keep your tools rust free.
Remember seeing those little packets that you get in a box of chewing gum, or in the new suitcases? Instead of throwing them off, keep them in your tool kit and in between your collection of nails and beads. These packets are excellent in absorbing excess moisture and keep your tools and metal stuffs rust free.
3) Hang drill on the side of the ladder
While using a drilling machine while working standing on a ladder, it becomes a tedious job to come down the ladder and keep the drill down, and go up again, just to fix that small screw at its place. Imagine how strenuous it would be if there are 10s or 20s of screws to be fitted. Instead of doing all the military work going up and down for keeping and picking your drill, hang it to the sides of your ladder by coiling the wire 3-4 times around and supporting the drill on one of the case. It'll save you a lot of energy.
4) Candle to ease up the screw driving
Many times the screws get roughed up in the tool box and it becomes difficult placing them using screw drive. To smoothen their surfaces, always keep a candle in your kit. Rubbing the surface of a screw on candle wax can definitely ease up your job of putting it in that wooden plank using your screw driver.
5) Use cello tape to pick up scattered pins, beads and nails. In case it is all metal, use magnet.
Once you start building your own home repair toolkit, you might see lots of minute things in it - nails, beads, smaller nails, pins etc. Many times in all the activity, you might drop your toolkit and it feels like a lot of work picking all the stuff back. Here, you can use a cello tape for your rescue. Just wrap the cello tape around your hand, with sticky side up and press it on the floor to pick up the little pieces. It'll grab the stuffs in chunks and you can easily scrap them off in your tool kit. A good magnet can also do the trick, if all that's dropped is metal.
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