My kids were rough-housing and one of them put their head through the curio cabinet. How do you remove/replace a pane of glass? Also, what is the best house hold product to remove stains from a carpet? I'm on a tight budget and can't afford expensive chemicals.
2007-02-10 23:49:24 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
What is it about your in laws that makes them crazy? Why is this relevant? Perhaps if they are really crazy you should buy tempered safety glass. Better yet...Leave the house, kids and all. Let your "other half" deal with them, and go to the Caribbean. Sit on a nice warm beach, and call them on a cell phone.
2007-02-11 00:26:50 · answer #1 · answered by Don 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First, remove the head from your curio cabinet. Then look at the inside of the frame where the glass is and examine how the glass is held in place. It probably sits inside a recess in the frame and is held in place with metal tabs that are pushed into the wood. there may or may not be wooded strips that cover up the metal tabs depending on how nice a cabinet it is. If you cannot see the edges of the glass, that is the case. You'll have to pry the wood out, gently, so it doesn't bread, pull out the metal tabs and remove the rest of the glass. MEasure the size of the opening to the edges of the recess (not the size of the glass as seen from the outside) - this will be about 1/4 inch wider than what you see from the outside along each edge. Go to a hardware store and get a piece of glass cut ot size (about $5) and put the glass back in the way the original piece was in.
Bring a piece of the glass to the store so they can match the thickness of the glass. If it is beveled around the edges it will cost a lot more. If it is just flat it will be real cheap.
As for the carpet - I don't know about household stuff. Try some laundry detergent - a table spoon in a cup of warm water and an old toothbrush to scrub at the stain. It might work.
Don't worry aobut your inlaws. They raised kids, too, so they know what it's like.
2007-02-11 07:59:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
About the glass. First put on some heavy gloves and remove the splinters of glass. That should reveal the area that needs to be replaced. There should be some kind of wooden strips that held it in place. You need it clean to measure the sides end to end(minus 1/8" and the top to bottom (end to end) minus 1/8" to have a glass company cut the size. (theirs will be exact) Do not use glue or putty, just the wood strips that you have GENTLY removed. Gentle , otherwise you will possible crack or break them and then you have ANOTHER Problem.
2007-02-11 07:55:50 · answer #3 · answered by westbergindustries 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋