Lifehacks and useful tips. Page 20

Don’t rush to pour salt on a greasy stain that you haven’t carefully placed on your favorite blouse. And, especially, do not rub it with a colored napkin. This way you will only end up with an additional problem. You will have to remove not only grease, but also dirt.

Over time, the mechanisms installed in plastic windows wear out or fail altogether. The door may stop latching or sag, catching the threshold. Do I need to call a technician to fix the problems? Perhaps after

A microwave oven, like a stove, constantly requires cleaning from grease and dirty stains. It’s just that you can’t clean a microwave with chemicals, and it’s not always possible to achieve perfect cleanliness with regular water. Useful life hack in

This life hack can help you out in a difficult situation when you don’t have regular electrodes at hand. Thanks to this method, you can quite reliably grab or temporarily weld metal workpieces. A welding electrode is essentially a metal rod.

A blockage in the drain hole of a sink or bathtub can appear at the most inopportune moment, and no one is immune from this. If you do not have special pipe cleaning products on hand, you will most likely have to disassemble the siphon. But there are others

If cockroaches have settled in your house, this is a disaster not only for your family, but also for your neighbors. By treating one apartment with chemicals using a pest control service, you thereby “send” cockroaches to “walk” in other apartments. Not even a week will pass

Put clothes in the microwave. Sounds a little strange, don't you agree? However, the method that I will tell you about works 100%. And it takes only a few minutes of your precious time, excluding drying the item from which you are removing the stain.

Cooking beets, depending on their size and degree of ripeness, can take from 20 minutes to 3 hours. However, if this is done at maximum heat, then there will be no vitamins left in it. Let's look at how to cook it quickly and correctly.

To solve many problems, you can adapt a homemade tool, with which things will go faster and with less labor. Let's look at 3 such ideas that make complex work easier.

The carbon deposits on the baking sheet and oven walls dry out so much that removing it takes a lot of time and effort. When cleaning, use the suggested advice, and everything will be washed off quickly and easily.

When filling the iron with regular water, not distilled water, scale accumulates inside it. Over time, so much of it is formed that steam stops passing through the holes in the sole. In this regard, the iron needs to be cleaned.

To route exposed wires neatly, all you need is several packages of cable ties of different sizes, self-adhesive labels, and clear heat shrink tubing. You'll be surprised how much you can make from these materials.

How do you lace your sneakers? I guess the answer is usually. I offer you 5 ways to lace up your shoes in style.

The idea to make glue from cottage cheese did not come to me right away.Having tried recipes with various components, I settled on the curd-ammonia composition. The main reason was the cost of the final product. And about the ease of manufacture

Once you use a spatula, an indelible layer of putty, plasters, and tile adhesive sticks to its blade. Over time, it becomes so thick that the tool simply has to be thrown away. Don't rush to do this, it will help you

Regular electrical tape and heat-shrink tubing do not guarantee that the twisted wires will be completely airtight. If wiring is installed in a wet area, the connection must be made watertight to avoid short circuits.

Drying wet winter shoes with fur lining near the radiator takes at least one night, and even longer when they are soaking wet. If you literally scooped up water over the edge with your boots, then regular water will help dry them quickly.

If you need to install a threaded rivet, it is not necessary to buy or borrow a rivet tool. It can be installed in just a minute using regular wrenches.

If you have such an unfortunate misfortune, and the lace on one of your sneakers is tied tightly in a knot, then there is nothing annoying. Even the tightest knot in a rope can be easily untied with this simple method.

If you are faced with the task of pulling out old pillars from concrete or pipes, do not rush to pick up a shovel. Use this simple proven method. It will help you pull out the post intact, and not leave behind an excavated pit.

It's no secret that quite often the purchase of clothes is made spontaneously, by inspiration. And sometimes because of this, some shortcomings of products go unnoticed at first glance. However, after some time they still become visible, and then it befalls

When working with a thin cutting disc, a situation may occur where it breaks at high speeds. As a result, the nut on the spindle is clamped so tightly that it is impossible to unscrew it without breaking something. Let's look at how we can

Are you getting ready to iron, take out the iron and see a black layer of soot on it? And you probably don’t have a special solution for cleaning soles at hand. Don't rush headlong to the store and look for this product. What everyone always has will help you out

When performing roofing work, slate is usually trimmed with a grinder. When you don’t have an angle grinder, electricity, or you just don’t want to create dust, then try chopping it this way.