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Questions tagged [home]

Hacks specific to the home, as opposed to a public place or place of work.

Hacks about things in the home, as opposed to the or public places.

See also room-related tags, e.g. , et al.

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How can I work around high doorway thresholds to get a robot vacuum to get access to more rooms?

Our house has doorway thresholds that are 3-4cm tall. I'm checking out the Xiaomi robot vacuum, and after lots of searching it appears that it can only handle thresholds around 2cm tall. I don't want to have to change lots of doors, so I'm hoping…
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How can I affix pictures/photos to a wall cleanly without damaging the paint on the wall?

I want to surprise my mom by affixing her pictures for her coming birthday. All the photos are rectangle with dimension of 5 X 15 cm like shown below, just the bare photopaper (no frame), and the walls of acrylic paint, solid-whitish . I have tried…
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How can I reduce solicitations and "junk mail" for a deceased person?

My parents donated to a lot of worthy causes in their lifetimes. The legacy of this is pounds of direct mail solicitations, which at this point will never be answered. Is there a form I can fill out, to mass inform these organizations of their…
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How to level a picture frame hung on a single nail?

I spent an hour perfectly measuring the position of 3 nails to hang 3 identical picture frames on my wall. Everything went fine and I'm certain that from a mathematical point of view the nails are exactly in the right positions. But once I hang the…
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How to deal with kids playing outside my house?

I live in India. My neighbor's kids play cricket outside my house and keeps scratching and denting my car with the ball. I have talked with the parents and asked them to use a soft or sponge ball rather than a plastic one. But they do not seem…
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Best way to stop USPS from delivering past tenants' mail?

I recently started renting and moved into a suburban house in the US where almost every day I receive other people's mail. It is addressed to one of six different past tenents for my address. For the first few weeks, I wrote "Return to Sender" on…
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How do I get the bin bag (trash bag) outside without it dripping all over me?

The bin bags (trash bags) I have just bought in a roll of 100 of have small holes in the bottom, presumably so that they can compress when tied off. The downside of this is that if the bin contains something liquid, or something that has become…
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How can I apply and maintain pressure when mounting a mirror on a door?

I'm attempting to mount a long mirror on a door using pressure-sensitive adhesive tape. Problem is, the instructions state that it reaches 50% adhesion after twenty minutes, 75% after 24 hours, and 100% after 72 hours. I don't necessarily have to…
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Turning my desk's smile upside down

I have a largely jerryrigged desk - its a particleboard table top that's sitting on a pair of metal A frame trestle legs. I recently got a 27 inch monitor and the weight of it is causing the desk to sag. Its an inch thick particleboard that used to…
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How can I hang a picture without being able to drive nails/hooks into the wall?

I have some pictures I'd like to hang on my wall, but I can't drive nails into it due to the conditions of my lease. They're both rather heavy, one is about 1kg (2lbs) and the other is probably 2-3kg (5-7lbs), including the frame (or I suppose,…
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How to remove double sided foam tape from wall

Is there any better way to remove double sided foam tape from my wall, when i try to remove it form my wall it leave spots on the wall, is there any home remedy to remove these spots from my wall. Thanks in advance..
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How to fasten a length of plastic rope which is just too short

If I have less rope than necessary to tie multiple knots fore safety, and I am trying too tie both the ends to an iron rod (similar to how I have depicted here with another rod in between or straight between two iron rods), the rope is about 20…
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How to repair a physically damaged whiteboard?

We have a large whiteboard in one of our conference room, and there is a dent about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide. We were thinking that maybe using spackle or something similar to fill in the dent and then paint over it with whiteboard paint.
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Water Softener salt and Dehumidification

I have a Water Softener which uses tablet salt so I have plenty of salt available. I have a problem with my loft (attic) in that it is constantly very damp. I've noticed that salt seems to be able to draw moisture from the surrounding air,…
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How to deal with loud drilling in flats above me?

Yesterday, during one of my zoom calls, I heard some really loud drilling because some people are changing the floor tiles on one floor. It went on for hours and hours, sometimes stopping for a while, until around 8-9pm. What shocked me even more…
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