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| Farewell to the summer disorder |
| Organize the garage |
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Writing
Washington Hispanic
If his garage suffers from the excessive accumulation and there is no space for the motorcar and for many things that it had to extract in this summer, probably there has come the hour of initiating an organizational reshaping and of storing again. Although it will take time to him, in the long run he will benefit him with the most suitable order and the possibilities of a place for the works at home. These steps will help him in this arduous but gratifying task.
Decide with that intentions it will use the garage. Does he need an area of work and repairs? Is it necessary to keep the bicycles and the toys of the boys? Must he keep under roof his collection of ancient motorcars? Write a list of intentions so that he could structure different organization areas.
Organize the existing thing. Assemble the different objects that belong to other areas of the house, like the canned food that can go to the larder, or other articles that can keep in the cellar. Also, what it has not used recently, or they give wear samples, can go to the dump. Consider the sale of other objects of good quality, but without which it could do.
Organize area for area. In the list of work, hold the hardware to a piece of wood counterplated with nails or hooks. It even can draw the form of the tool with a permanent scoreboard or pencil, so that it always places it in the same place.
Store the nails, screws and other dispersed small articles in plastic boxes that sell in the progress shops in the hearth or hardware stores. Also it can do its own packings, hold the lids of crystal bottles of several sizes to a wooden piece. Place the nails and screws in the bottles, and then wind them in his already mounted respective covers. Also it can hang the wood, to have to hand the bottles suspended in the air, and desenroscarlos easily when he needs the articles that they contain.
Install organization shelves in the walls. The wire shelves are better than those of wood, because there can be seen easily the articles located in the highest part. Also, they accumulate less dust than the variety of surface gone out in wood. Store the articles for the cleanliness of the car, the rags and towels and other objects in the shelves. The objects that it uses with major frequency must place themselves in the way or the low part, and those of more sporadic use in the highest section.
Where it is possible, store articles in the walls to make use to the maximum of the horizontal space. Mount hooks where it could place bicycles or scooters. It stores the spades and hoses in the walls. Tie a network to the beams, and room to store light objects like floats of swimming pool, inflated balls and other miscellanies that are not used by a lot of frequency.
Store the objects in plastic containers that could be mounted some on others, so that it could see quickly his content. Also it can label them for an instantaneous reference.
Keep the dangerous substances as paintings or chemical compounds, as well as the cutting hardware, in offices with key. Keep the cutters of lawn, the cutters of wire and other objects of big size behind a fence with padlock, if it has space. Make sure that they should be far from the area where the children keep his things.
Remember that the familiar participation is essential. While more persons take part in the process of organization, more rapid they will end, and entertained it will be.
| Avoid the sheets obstructions |
| Of a maintenance adapted to the canaletas |
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Writing
Washington Hispanic
The canaletas prevent the water from slipping for the doors and windows and going down for the sides of his house. Also, they turn the water away and remove it from the foundations, reducing the possibilities that one day the current drags his house be quiet below up to the driveway of his neighbors. The true thing is that the canaletas are necessary, even if there could turn out to be a nuisance.
It is necessary to clean the canaletas at least two times a year, preferably in spring and autumn. If it can only realize a cleanliness, do it in the autumn, when it finishes the period of fall of the sheets.
It can run into very hard and given garbage accumulations. In these cases, they will be easier to remove after a rainy day, when they have become damp. Of course, always it can generate its own rain with a hose, but resist the temptation of cleaning the canaletas with water to pressure. Although it looks like an easy task, he might attest of garbage the downspouts, and the dirty water might splash the whole house.
I looked for holes, oxide, meetings that are free or where the water escapes, and supports that have doubled or lost Indicate these areas with adhesive tape in order to locate quickly the problematic points when it is going to repair them.
Use gloves to be protected from scratches and have to the hand a spoon of gardening or a spade for canaletas, a brush and a rag. Place the hardware in a bucketful with handle. Hold the bucketful to the stairs with a wire hook; this way you will not have that starts doing conjurings with a heap of hardware while it rises and goes down for the stairs. On the other hand, it will not be assaulted by the temptation of the pockets filling with hardware, what would suppose a big danger for you in case it was falling down.
Begin for cleaning a stretch of canaleta of the area next to the downspout with a spade for canaletas. Here it is where there usually accumulates the garbage that obstruct the step of the water towards the downspout.
| Mice and bats can consider the revenue to his house |
| Support far the wild animals |
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An autumn project that might be to remove to these animals of the proximities of the housing.
Writing
Washington Hispanic
The wild animals like mice, squirrels, bats and birds can consider his housing to be a calm, sure and dry refuge in any season. Nevertheless, when the winter comes and these creatures look for nests and dens to shelter from the cold, his hearth receives a special attraction.
The presence of an animal nesting or living in his house can commit an outrage against the health and be potentially dangerous, if you scare it or if the animalcule obstructs the exit of smoke or gas leakage of the house.
Chimney: A lid or a protector of mesh placed in the chimney for a professional it can remove to the animals of this area, which constitutes a common entry route. The animals can transmit illnesses across his fecal dregs, and block the exit of smoke of the chimney, two potential dangers. Do not use materials as cloth of mesh for windows, since tupen with the soot and other garbages, propitiating a fire danger.
Gap for the fan of the attic: Many attics are provided with a fan to extract the warm air that accumulates under the roof. The animals can interfere for the gap of the tailpipe and penetrate in the attic. The attics are usually very attractive for the animals, because they are in general warm and do not visit often, or, a suitable place to nest. Again, the use of a mesh of metallic cloth screwed firmly on the orifice of ventilation prevents the animals entry.
I roof: Inspect periodically the roof and the areas with wooden revetment in his housing, to detect areas capable of repair. Pay special attention to the areas where the tiles or windows join the line of the roof.
Drainage tubes: The housings owners with sewer pipes or other drainage systems could have tubes that go from the cellar on the outside. The animals in search of dens might detect an end exhibited in tubes and penetrate in the housing for the sewer. If it places a mesh covering to the end of the tubes, the water will be able to go out, but the animals will not be able to enter.
Pit of the windows: The pits of the windows of the cellar could offer areas in which the animals can gnaw or dig between bricks or in the putty without nobody seeing them, to penetrate in the housing. A plastic lid or commercial grill will assure this area of the pit of the window.
Fences and platforms: The animals can dig under the fences to enter the courtyard, or can live under the wooden platforms. Although it is not exactly inside the housing, yes they are quite next to the inhabitants of the same one, and can constitute an inconvenience.
| They help with the organization of the housing |
| The offices an easy access for all |
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Writing
Washington Hispanic
Many of the concepts of the universal design have application in the systems of storage and the organization of the housing. Adaptable storage systems can be constructed to the changes in the life styles and the ages.
To facilitate for all the use of the elements of the house is one of the basic beginning of the universal design. To obtain it, already be in the kitchen, the bath, the quarter of wash or the closet: the offices with the knobs in D allow to open doors with a minimum of manual force.
Adapt the offices, the piers and the doors to the needs both of the skillful users and of the left-handed ones.
Try that all the areas differ with clarity from any vision line.
Install the components so that they turn out to be accessible from any position, be already standing or seated.
Try that the elements are as simple as possible. They must be easy to open and to reach with a minimal effort for all.
Fit the differences to the size and the force of the hand.
Laying
In order to avoid the need to stoop or to stretch too much, the ideal space for an easy access must not be at a distance of the soil lower than 27 " not superior to 48 ". That includes the place of sockets and switches.
Closets
Place the clothes racks at a height of the eyes to offer a good visibility and easy access from a wheelchair. If he installs components of adaptable height in the closet, it will be able to change the configuration in accordance with his needs. Use knobs for style doors lever or in D in order to facilitate the opening.
The adaptable piers adapt themselves to his changeable needs. A revolving salver maximizes the space.
Offices
Incorporate the incidental offices that facilitate his use. The knobs in the shape of D turn out to be easier to open for persons strongly limited in the hands. In case of the larders, the long piers provide access to the users of wheelchairs and maximize his storage space. The revolving salvers also allow to make use to the maximum of the storage area and facilitate the access to the articles kept in corner offices.
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