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You can and should decorate holiday salads. These are the privileges of not only restaurant dishes; you can create such beauty with your own hands without the use of special figured knives. Salads decorated with curly cuts always look much more appetizing and

It is not very easy to bend profile pipes without deforming the cross section. To do this, you need special pipe benders, which are expensive and quite bulky. But such a device can be made with your own hands without much expense, if

Soldering aluminum with standard solder using conventional technology is unreliable and impossible. The tin on it rolls into a ball, not wanting to stick, and if it does stick, the result is a weak connection that breaks under the slightest load. To

Before making a sandwich, we usually take the butter out of the refrigerator (sometimes from the freezer). Cutting such butter is not easy and sometimes even impossible, and spreading it on soft, fresh bread is almost impossible. You can try to put it in

To remove limescale from your shower head, you don’t need to buy expensive chemicals and spend a huge amount of time on the removal process. All you need is 100-200 grams of vinegar, which any housewife has, and

Clearing the area of ​​snow throughout the winter using a shovel requires a lot of effort and time. Using expensive motorized equipment for this will hit the family budget hard. To avoid these two extremes,

Pie from the “Fast, affordable, easy and very tasty” series. It will take you 10 minutes to prepare. The rest of the time the oven will work! The pie turns out very impressive and appetizing. And everyone will come running to the aroma from such a work of art

If there is insufficient air flow in the house, exhaust ventilation does not work well, so the humidity in the rooms increases. This manifests itself in fogging of glass on windows, the appearance of fungus and mold on slopes. Initially, most of the houses are old

Removing snow by hand is not easy and takes a long time.Buying a mechanical cleaner is expensive because of its high cost. But you can make a snow blower on wheels that you just need to push, which is easier than swinging a shovel. And it will cost two orders of magnitude cheaper than

A toilet freshener is an indispensable thing in any home, without which it is impossible to do without when visiting the toilet. It is designed to eliminate indoor odors and plumbing contamination. Most housewives prefer to use for this purpose

Hello, today we’ll talk about distillation. This is distillation, the evaporation of a liquid followed by cooling and condensation of vapors. Accordingly, the product is the distillate or residue.

If a tubeless tire punctures, you can quickly repair the wheel without installing a spare tire. For this purpose, special aerosol emergency sealants in the form of foam are used. If the tire is punctured in the tread area, but does not have a side cut or has not come off

Making a real wooden box, especially a carved one, is a very troublesome, labor-intensive and time-consuming task. In addition to the necessary skills, this task also requires the appropriate tool (various cutters, chisels, etc.), which not everyone has

What do a useless pump have in common with a perfectly working grinder? It seems nothing: the first one is only good as scrap metal, and the second one will serve its intended purpose for a long time. But let's not rush - this unit can become the basis for manufacturing

Not every drill takes hardened and hard steel. In this regard, if it is necessary to drill a bearing race, knife blade or other hardened products, difficulties arise. To solve them, you can make a homemade drill that can cope with

Grafting, a vegetative method of propagating plants when parts of two or more of them are combined, has been used by gardeners since time immemorial. It is especially widely used for propagating trees and shrubs. Many methods have been developed

Most children, and adults too, love chocolate. Who doesn’t like to spread a piece of loaf with sweet paste for breakfast? Stores offer many options for this delicacy in different price categories. But much better, safer,

8 extremely interesting ways to open a bottle without using a corkscrew. I recommend that you familiarize yourself with all of them, since I am sure that you did not know at least half of them, and, perhaps, did not even know about their existence.

Any utensils can be cleaned of carbon deposits and other contaminants manually, using various tools, using household chemicals, heating over a fire, etc. Some of them require a lot of physical effort, others require money, others require

If, after opening a tube of silicone, you do not use it for a long time, the sealant may partially harden directly in the tube from the side of the spout. In this case, it will not be squeezed out, and if you try to force it through, you can bend or break the gun.

If there is a power outage at your home, this does not mean that the incoming electrical or fiber optic cable has lost internet. Most families have a central router at home that distributes the Internet to all mobile devices

In case of rodent infestations, mousetraps and spring-type rat traps are usually used, which require recharging after operation. Without the ability or desire to check the trap every few hours, you can make an automatic trap, and

Vinegar is available in every home. It is used as a seasoning, pickling agent, etc. But without exaggeration, this cheap and widely available liquid can be called universal. It can be successfully used for cleaning, healing, care

Over time, after numerous brush replacements, wear appears on the armature commutator.This causes the power tool to spark and work less stably. To solve this problem, the collector needs to be machined. This is best done on a lathe.