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Galv Broughton asked:


 

You’ve decided that you want to install electric underfloor heating in your home. Great choice! Now it’s time to take the necessary steps to ensure that your DIY underfloor heating project goes off without a hitch. It’s time to learn how to plan the installation of DIY underfloor heating to avoid any snags in the future.

Underfloor heating can save you significant sums on heating costs and installation is much easier to do than for many construction projects. For this reason, the cost of underfloor heating has gone down, making it an affordable option for a number of homeowners who can save money on expensive professional installation costs. Now, DIY underfloor heating is the norm, providing efficient and effective heat to a number of homes.

What’s the first step in installing your DIY underfloor heating system? All you need is a pencil, ruler and some paper, preferably graph paper for accuracy. You will want to take an accurate measurement of your room from wall to wall, skirting board to skirting board. Make sure you cover all the nooks and crannies accurately if you plan to place some ribbon heating beneath it. Include the fixed furniture like the toilet, cabinets, oven, refrigerator and more since you will not want the heating to go under these important appliances.

Plan to use the larger heating mats in the bigger areas, making the most of every material. From there, you can wind the pipes from these mats in the most efficient way possible. You want to cover the maximum amount of floor space possible with your underfloor heating to get the most out of the system and reduce your energy bills even more. Be sure to design your underfloor mats towards the junction box and the thermostat so that you have the edges of the mats for the cold cables alone.

While planning the insulation of your underfloor system, make sure that you include the entire floor area since insulation comes in a variety of sizes. You will also want to include 10% of waste, mistakes, etc. Knowing how much you need ahead of time will save you money and time from running back to the store for more materials. A complete DIY installation can take just a few hours, if you are in an average amount of space, so running out of materials is not ideal.

Madeleine M Langlois asked:


“This New Years Eve…toast in the New Year

with a little added twist of Photo Fun.”

MIY Make-it-yourself Photo Drink Charms

Hands-on time: Under one hour.

Skill: Easy & fun.

Materials & tools:

• Thick photo paper, matt or glass

• Various photos of your choice, friends, nature scenes, or emotioncons

• A ruler

• Pencil

• A circle template

• Scissors

• A large hole punch, or decorative punch shape such as a star, snowflake etc.

(Materials for this project are available at arts,craft and hardware stores, or on line.)

This New Years Eve…toast in the New Year with a little added twist of fun. Wine charms are used to identify wine glasses at parties. Instead of using the usual little decorative ornament charms, why not make amusing , personalized and all original “MIY Photo Clip-on Drink Charms”, using photos of your guests, movie characters or emotioncon graphic clip-art.

They are so easy to make in minutes and they will fit standard wine, champagne and Martini glass

stems. They make wonderful favors and hostess gifts as well.

Suddenly glass charms got a lot more interesting. They will give your guests something to talk about besides all the snow! Personalized “MIY Photo Clip-on Drink Charms”, are practical and fun; they are useful for they stop glass confusion, start conversations, and can let you keep track of how much you or your guests have had to drink (one can easily forget on such festive occasions).

Each photo tag clip-on Drink charm measures 3.8 in circumference. With a computer software of your choice, make a sheet of small squares sized slightly larger about 4.5 cm or for the circles in the exact size using various pictures. Use pictures of your guests, or go with a movie theme, with assorted characters from movies, or cartoons, one for each of your guests. I did a combination of these types of pictures, a personalized photo tag one of each guest, various winter nature pictures with numbers to clip onto a drink to keep

track of drink consumption, plus emotioncon graphics (you can get these on the internet) just for fun so the guests can let everyone know what type of mood they are in.

Have fun with this project, get creative and make a game out of it. Once your pictures are selected, make a printout of the photos on thick quality photo paper in matt or gloss finish.

For square picture shape print outs; use a circle template with a pencil to outline the circle shape around each image. Cut out the circle photo shapes

with scissors. You can also opt to use a rotary circle cutter or scissors with decorative edges.

Use a large hole punch to punch a hole in each circle photo tag charm. You can also use various punch shapes such as stars, snowflakes using

decorative punches. Use scissors to cut a slit from the edge going inwards to the center of the hole punch, and that is basically it, you now have party personalized photo tag clip-on charms. They simply clip onto the stem of a glass.

Place the personalized photo tag clip-on charms in a bowl near the drinks and let your guests pick a character or mood charm tag for themselves. Great

your guest with their photo on their glass, this is sure to make them feel welcomed.

Cheers! Have a safe and happy holiday season. All the best for the creative New Year ahead!

Variations: Customized “MIY Photo Clip-on Drink Charms”, can be made forbasically any festive occasion or party theme throughout the year. They also make wonderful dinner place cards, placed on a napkin.

Other ways to customized and personalize photo tag clip-on drink charms.

They can be made with various other materials, circle shapes can be cut out using card board, rigid plastic craft sheets, or thick decorative papers and pictures simply glued onto the shapes. Names and initials can be applied to the charms using gold tipped markers, glitter or gel pens. They can also be further embellished using assorted remnants or notions, such as

scrapbooking decorative stickers, tag shapes, numbers and letters of your

choice.

Photo tag clip-on charms can also be used gift tags. You can even use the same concept such as you would with bag clips to organize various items in bags around your home when storing things.

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