Monday, February 24, 2014

A SHIPPING THEMED GRAPHIC STORAGE BENCH

I find hand painting details very relaxing. I enjoy the quiet time inside my head.

And every now and then I go way over board painting a piece.

This storage bench is painted in a creamy white mix of AS Pure White and Old White. The graphics

are all hand painted with black acrylic paint and a small artists brush. I`ve taken some photos of the

steps I took to get the warn look over the letters and hope to share that with you soon.

I used a lot of symbols found on shipping envelops and crates.

If you come across a storage box like this look for the secret button that you push to unlatch the lid.

At first I thought it was locked, nope just push the button.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

MOMMA AND PAPPA white upholstered balloon back chairs

Just a short update .....

The momma and pappa chair got new upholstery today.

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Enjoy and Profit Wood Working Projects

It is extremely relaxing to stay busy with one or more wood working projects. Especially if you have a job of some type that requires you to be sitting most of the day,because unless your a carpenter you can come home and relax and gain satisfaction by constructing something with your hands.

This is extremely enjoyable and the satisfaction you get from your finished product can not be explained. This is also a great way to make good money by selling projects that you make after you have made everything you and your wife wants that is. More and more people are turning to wood working as a hobby and to make money in these tough economical times. And this is is not just men but women also for recreation and profit.

The first thing to do is to decide what it is you want to build. There are thousands of of things to choose from, just to name a few:

* Playhouse,

* Rocking horse

* Green House

* Shed

* Beds

* Chicken House

* Unique Birdhouses!

And that is not even an ounce of the wood working projects out there for you. Something else I want to mention is the money you will save and the quality you will get. You will pay less and get much better quality than some stapled and glued piece of garbage that falls a part little by little.

You will be constructing something that will last a lifetime, like they used to build years and years ago. Once you have decided on a wood project, now the key is to find a set of plans for that item. A word of advice do not go with a free set of plans, they are hard to read and do not have detailed pictures. Instead pay a few dollars and buy plans that will take you step by step through the entire project and has clear detailed pictures to help you. Find these plans and all of your wood working projects will be made simple.

Anniversary Card for my Husband Discussion Photo

Hi Everyone,
Well, today is not only the first day of the Minnesota State Fair, its also my husbands and mine anniversary today.

As I usually make cards for my family out of wood, I decided to make a unique card for my husband and here it is:

This is based on the Scottish quaich which are small, wooden drinking cups made for special occasions. On the rim is a line from a Robert Browning poem, "Grow old with me for the best is yet to be..."

The cup is made out of a section of a maple tree branch from a friends yard and Im going to oil it later on today.

So, Happy Anniversary Jim and thanks for 32 great years.

Best,

VW

Friday, February 21, 2014

How To Build Drawer Boxes

Everything you need to know to build drawer boxes for your woodworking projects in this drawer building tutorial.

Drawer box construction can seem daunting but there are only a few simple measurements you need to take to get the right drawer box dimensions. Using pocket holes joinery, plywood and the right hardware makes building drawer boxes easy.

When I first tried to learn how to build drawers for one of my projects I had a difficult time finding all the information I needed. After researching the topic and now having had some experience I thought it would be nice to outline everything youll need to know in one place.

What Youll Need

Materials

1/2" or 5/8" plywood for sides
1/4" plywood or tempered hardwood for bottoms
(8) Pocket Hole Screws per box

Tools

Table saw or circular saw with guide to cut plywood
Router, table saw or circular saw with guide to cut dados
Miter box, power miter saw or table saw to cut to length
Kreg Pocket Hole Jig
Drill
Tape measure
Straight edge

Step 1: Drawer Box Construction Overview

Before we get into the details lets take a look at a typical drawer box construction. There are many different ways to build drawer boxes, some require special tools and skill while others are are very simple but not very strong or attractive. I think that using pocket hole joinery for drawers achieves a great balance between strength, appearance, cost and ease to build. That is the method Ill be describing.

Below is an image of an assembled drawer box minus the drawer slide hardware.

Using a separate drawer box and drawer front makes it easier to construct the drawer and provides more flexibility when aligning the drawer front on the cabinet.

The drawer consists of 6 main components. The drawer box sides, front and back, the drawer box bottom, the exposed drawer front and the drawer pull. 2 wood screws are used to secure the drawer front to the drawer box, 2 machine screws hold the drawer pull in place. Not visible are 8 pocket holes and screws that attach the back and front to the sides. The bottom sits in a dado (groove) cut into the sides, front and back.

Here is an exploded view of the drawer to give you a better sense of how it is constructed.

Step 2: Choosing Wood For Your Drawer Box

Before anything else, we need to determine the type of wood well use for the drawer sides and bottoms.

For the drawer sides your options in order of best to worst are: solid wood boards, veneered hardwood plywood, MDF and melamine coated particle board. Because drawers tend to get abused a bit I prefer to use plywood for drawer construction as its more durable than MDF or particleboard. Solid wood boards are nice but usually overkill and much more expensive. I like PureBond 1/2" Maple Plywood because maple has a tight, closed grain and the light color is good for drawer boxes. PureBond is also formaldehyde free.

Drawer box side thickness should be at least 1/2" but if you can find 5/8" plywood your boxes will be stronger. Unless youre building large drawer boxes for very heavy items or large file drawers 3/4" sides wont be necessary.

For the drawer bottoms solid wood boards havent been commonly used for many years for most drawer construction because of cost. 1/4" thick plywood is good enough for most drawers. PureBond 1/4" Maple Plywood is great for drawer bottoms. Another good choice that is about 1/2 the cost is 1/4" Tempered Hardboard. Tempered hardboard is dark brown and not as attractive as plywood but is strong enough for drawer bottoms, easy to find and cheaper than plywood. From what I remember it was used for the drawer bottoms at labs in scool.

Step 3: Drawer Box Width

There are two main factors that will determine the outside width for your drawer box, the width of the opening the drawer will be installed in and the side clearance required by the drawer slides you are using.

I like to measure the opening width after I construct and finish the cabinet carcass. Sometimes things dont always go as planned and plywood thickness can vary. By doing this I get a more accurate measurement. I measure not only the front but also at a point in the back and use the smallest measurement if they differ. This is important because with many drawer slides there is very little tolerance.

Standard epoxy coated drawer slides (like the Blum 230M Epoxy Coated 3/4 Extension Self Closing Slides pictured right) need a 1/2" clearance on each side of the drawer box. The clearance requirements should be available through the slide manufacturer.

To determine the outside dimension of the drawer box take the inside opening measurement and subtract 2 times the side clearance.

In our example the opening width is 12", 2 times 1/2" equals 1" so our final outside drawer width will be 12" - 1/2" - 1/2" or 11".

Some people like to also remove an additional 1/16" from the outside width because the drawer slides do have some tolerance and its easier to shim the slide if necessary than to remove material but I do not do that. The reason is that plywood tends to be a little bit thinner than advertised and the way I measure and build my drawer boxes already makes them come out a little bit narrower than the actual measurements. Ill explain it more further down.

Step 4: Drawer Box Height

There are two situations you might run into when trying to determine the height for your drawer boxes. One is where there is a constrained height for the opening where the drawer will be installed such as the top drawer of a european style cabinet or drawers installed into face-frame cabinets.

Constrained Height

When the height of the drawer opening is constrained it is important to measure the actual opening dimensions. I do this after the cabinet carcass has been assembled and finished. I also measure both sides and in the case of any slight discrepancy I use the smallest measurement. Next it is a matter of allowing for proper top and bottom clearance as detailed in the specifications for the drawer slide.

Standard epoxy coated slides need a 1/4" bottom clearance and some top clearance to allow them to be more easily removed. I subtract 1" from the opening height to allow for the 1/4" bottom clearance and 3/4" top clearance.

In our example the opening is 5-1/2" so our drawer box height will be 5-1/2" minus 1/4" bottom clearance minus 3/4" top clearance equals 4-1/2" height for the drawer box.

Non Constrained Height

In some cases you may install drawers into a cabinet where there is not a separate opening for each individual drawer, such as the bottom portion of a european style cabinet.

In this situation the drawer front height should already be known and I make the drawer box height 1-1/4" shorter than the drawer front. In the case of a 10" drawer front height, the drawer box height will be 8-3/4".

Step 5: Drawer Box Depth

Determining the appropriate drawer box depth is a little more complicated than determining the other drawer box dimensions. To get the best use out of the drawer the main driver for the depth of the drawer box will be the size of the drawer glides you use. For example, if youre using these Knape & Voigt 22" Economical Full Extension Drawer Slides youll want to make your drawer boxes 22" to get full advantage of the full extension feature. Figuring out what size drawer slides to buy will be determined by your cabinets construction and size.

First you need to measure the inside depth of your cabinet where youll be installing your drawer. Measure from the back of the cabinet to the front of the cabinet as shown.

If youre cabinets will have overlay drawers, where the drawer front sits in front of the cabinet body as pictured above, take the measured depth of the cabinet and look for a drawer slide that is 1 to 2 inches shorter than that measurement. The size of the drawer slide you selected will determine the length of your outside drawer depth.

If youre cabinet design calls for inset drawers, where the drawer fronts will be installed flush with the front of the cabinet, then you need to account for the thickness of the drawer front. In the above example well have a 3/4" thick inset drawer front installed in a cabinet with a depth of 16". That means well be looking for a drawer slide that is an inch or two less than 15.25" and build our drawer box depth so it matches the size of the drawer slide well select.

Step 6: Length of Drawer Box Sides, Front and Back

Now that weve determined what the outside dimensions of our drawer box should be, well need to figure out the length of each piece that makes up the outside perimeter of the drawer box. In the example weve been using weve determined our drawer box dimensions are 11" wide, 15" deep and 4-1/2" high.

Before we continue lets have another look at an assembled drawer box for reference.

Drawer Box Sides

As you can see from the illustration the length of each drawer box side is simply the overall outside dimension of the drawer box. In our case, 15".

Drawer Box Front and Back

Because the drawer box front and back fit between the sides it needs to be shorter than the outside width of the drawer box.

To determine the length of the front and back pieces take the overall outside width of your drawer box and subtract 2 times the thickness of the side pieces.

In our case were using 1/2" plywood and our desired outside width is 11" so the length of our front and back pieces will be 10".

I mentioned earlier that the side clearance for the epoxy drawer slides are not actually 1/2" but 1/2" + 1/32" (17/32"). I dont account for the extra 1/16" (1/32" for each side) because plywood tends to be thinner than marked by about 1/32".

You should verify the thickness of your plywood with something like a Neiko 6-Inch Digital Caliper. Standard tape measures dont have markings down to 1/32" but if you dont have calipers you can stack 2 side pieces on top of each other and measure their combined thickness.

Step 6: Layout and Cut Drawer Box Sides, Fronts and Backs

I like to reduce waste when cutting lumber as much as possible which is why I always mock up my cut plan before hand. Buying one less sheet of plywood can be the difference between a DIY project that saves significant money and one that doesnt. I include the cut width (kerf) in the plans as well so I dont wind up with an unexpectedly short piece.

For most projects youll be building multiple drawer boxes so the following cut plan is laid out for 2 of our 11" x 15" x 4-1/2" drawer boxes. It consists of 2 10" backs, 2 10" fronts, and 4 15" sides cut out of a 2 x 4 sheet of 1/2" plywood.

I think the drawer boxes look nicer when the length of the piece follows the grain of the plywood which is why I layout the side pieces along the long end of the plywood. I make my rip cuts first and then trim to length with a power miter saw. I always make sure there are a few inches at the end of each ripped piece in case I need to extend the length of any of the components for some unforseen reason.

Dado

The bottom of the drawer box fits into a dado (groove) cut into the bottom of the side, front and back pieces. It does not get glued into place but rather floats in the groove to allow for expansion of the wood.

Since were using 1/4" plywood for the drawer bottom our dado needs to be 1/4" deep and 1/4" wide. The dado should be cut a minimum of 1/4" from the bottom but if you want a stronger drawer box for storing heavier items space the dado 3/8" or even 1/2" up from the bottom.

How we plan to cut the dado will determine how we proceed cutting the drawer side components.

If You DO Have A Table Saw Or Router

A table saw is the best tool to use to get accurate, repeatable rip cuts for the drawer side components. You can also use it to cut the 1/4" dado or you can use a router table or router with guide. If you dont have a table saw but you do have a router you can rip the plywood with a circular saw and guide then cut the dado with the router. In either case the procedure is the same.

Rip the long 4-1/2" strips of plywood using either your circular saw and guide or table saw.
Cut the dadoes using either your table saw or router.
When its time to assemble the drawer boxes trim the pieces to the correct length using a miter saw.

If You DONT Have A Table Saw Or Router

If you dont have a table saw or router with a router table or guide dont worry. You can still cut out your drawer box components provided you have a circular saw and circular saw guide. The order of your cuts will be slightly different.

Mark out all your cut lines on the plywood. This includes both edges of the dadoes and dont forget to account for the cut width (kerf) of your saw blade when measuring out multiple rip cuts. Mark the cuts so you know which lines represent the dados and which lines represent the rip cuts. Each cut should have 2 marking lines, one for each side of the cut. Using different colors might help. See picture to right for details.
Set your saw blade to only cut 1/4" deep into the plywood. Test it out on a scrap piece to be sure youre not cutting too deep.
Lay your saw guide along each dado and cut out the dado with your circular saw. Take your time. Depending on the kerf of your saw you may need to do 1 or 2 more passes to get the desired 1/4" width. Its easier to cut all the dadoes before ripping the strips.
Set your saw blade to cut through your plywood and proceed to rip out the strips for your draw sides.
Use a miter saw to cut the components to length when its time to assemble the drawer boxes.

Ive done this before but its very important to lay out each side of the cut accurately and take your time setting up your saw and guide so you dont mess it up.

Step 7: Assemble Drawer Box Sides

With all the drawer box sides cut we can now begin assembling the drawer box.

Start by drilling 4 pocket holes on the front and back pieces using a Kreg Pocket Hole Jig. The pocket holes should be drilled on the side opposite where the dado is cut. Make sure you dont drill a pocket hole over the dado. For larger drawers you may require additional pocket holes. Pocket holes should be no further than 6-8" apart.

Once the pocket holes are drilled, screw the drawer box together as shown.

Make sure that the drawer box dimensions are correct and that the box is square before proceeding. If not make any necessary adjustments.

Step 8: Cut and Install the Drawer Bottom

With the drawer box assembled we can take final measurements so we cut the drawer bottom precisely.

Measure the inside dimensions of your finished drawer box and add 3/8" to each dimension. This allows a little room inside of the dado for expansion.

In our case our inside dimensions are 10" x 14" so well need to cut a 10-3/8" x 14-3/8" rectangle out of our 1/4" plywood. I like to cut it so the direction of the grain runs from left to right when installed in the drawer but this isnt that important and will cut in either direction if it makes more efficient use of the plywood.

With the drawer bottom cut to size unscrew the pocket holes from the back of the drawer box and carefully slide the drawer bottom into the dadoes on the drawer box sides.

Place the drawer box back in place and make sure everything still fits correctly and the drawer box is square. Screw and glue the drawer box back together and your drawer box is now complete.

Step 9: Finishing

Before going on to finishing, if you have a router you can ease the edges of the top of the drawer box sides with a round over bit or aggressively sand it to get rid of the sharp edges.

Sand the drawer box with 80 grit, then 120 grit sand paper to smooth out any rough spots or tool marks.

Staining drawer boxes usually isnt necessary but a polyurethane coating will help protect the drawer box and keep it clean. Avoid using oil based sealers on drawer boxes because they can out gas for years and thats not something you want in an enclosed space like a drawer. For drawer boxes I like to use Minwax Water-Based Polycrylic.

All thats left to do is install the drawer slide hardware in your cabinet, position and attach your drawer front and drawer pull.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Reverse Engineering A Carcass

Woodworking is an exercise in problem solving. There are two kinds of problems, the ones that life pushes on you, and the ones that you create for yourself. The later is usually the more difficult to deal with.

I started to plan and build a wall cabinet inspired by James Krenovs work, a little outside the sphere of work that people have come to expect from me. Taking a shot at it is one part prove to myself I can, one part prove to the world I can, and one part "because I just want to, thats why." The inspiration was a pair of pine boards I found in a pile at the home store and immediately visualized as doors for this kind of cabinet.

In my own way, I decided to build the doors first. You can read about them HERE. Standard logic says you should build the carcass first and fit the doors to it. As Ive said before, here at the Oldwolf Workshop we follow the standard substandard logic. Now my logic had forced me to reverse engineer the carcass.

I had a nice 5/4 cherry board with some great grain, a little interesting but not in a crazy way, and I thought it would make a nice compliment to the wildness of the pine doors. At a little over eight foot of board I had just enough to squeeze the four sides out of the one board.

I planed and worked the boards flat and square on all surfaces. Not killing for a universal thickness. hand work allows you some freedom in millimeters of variation one board to another, just working for surfaces as true and square as possible.

One of my personal challenges for this build is to work without taking measurements. That is to say, Im not interested in using numbers to size things. Im trying to work more by eye and with a sense of proportion rather than follow out a plan of known measurements from a scaled drawing. Ive been reaching for story sticks, sectors and dividers instead of my folding rule and tape measure.

The cabinet is to be as wide as the doors with through dovetail joints in the corners. I laid out the doors with a couple coins in between to help set the gap, and laid the roughly sized carcass end on top. I squared one end and used a pencil to scribe the width of the doors onto the blank. Scribing with a sharp pencil can come close but will still leave a couple thousandths of an inch wide. This was OK with me and I knew there would be sanding and more surface removal to do on the carcass after it was assembled so its a planned overshoot.

If the end result of the carcass is more narrow than the doors, I will plane the doors down a little more to get the fit and look Im after.

I re-marked the pencil line square with a tri-square. (It wasnt really off much more than a wiggle of the wrist) and sawed down, splitting the pencil line. Then I took the other carcass end and sized one to the other until they matched.

With the ends done I began on the sides. I laid out a door and the carcass ends and butted the side to them. The ends are included because in the final idea the top and bottom of the carcass have a curved profile that moves out proud of the doors and the carcass sides will snuggle behind them.

I marked this set up on the side, squared the line, cut down the side and sized the other carcass side to the first.

The most difficult part of all. Having to wait until I completed all the joinery (dovetails, rebates, and dados) before I could find out if I had done things well.

Ratione et Passionis.
Oldwolf

Whats for Dinner

Hi Again,

Well, Ive been wondering just what the hell to make for dinner tonight and as usual my poor sawdust-addled brain comes up with nothing. So I decided to surf the web and I came up with this recipe from another blog that looked really good.

Heres the blog: The is The Pioneer Woman by Ree Drummond. Ree lives in Oklahoma (yay!) on a ranch with her husband and assorted kids and critters: http://thepioneerwoman.com/.

This particular recipe is: Pork roast with apples and onions at: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/11/pork-roast-with-apples-and-onions/

And heres my take on the whole thing so far:

Ive followed the recipe exactly and this is it before I put the lid on it and let it simmer for a couple of hours.

Come on back in about 3 hours and well see where this goes.

Adios,
VW

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Rough couple of days in the workshop

Hi Everyone,
Well, it has been really cold here in Minnesota and Im afraid my tools have rebelled--my table saw and the band saw have both frozen up and cant be used right now. And its been so cold that Im almost freezing up myself so Im going to clean up the shop and shut down for a week or two until the weather improves a bit.

Bad news on the bowl front: the hickory bowl I made several weeks ago has cracked and is beyond repair. Im not sure if it was the cold or if the stress in the wood fibers was more than the bowl could handle but its cracked on both sides of the bowl and it cant be salvaged. Oh dear...

So Im going to take advantage of this shutdown and sharpen everything again and get ready for our next projects. Stay warm!

VW

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

A Review 17th Century New England Carving With Peter Follansbee

I was just beginning to stick my toe into the ocean that can be the online woodworking community. I had found some forums, I had started to write this blog, and by consequence, I had started to get a look at other woodworking blogs out there. One of the first and best I have ever found was Joiners Notes by Peter Follansbee.

For me, a woodworker with a deep interest in history and by combining default historical woodworking, Peters blog is the perfect storm of interest and content for me, his writing is straightforward yet scholarly. He is so well versed and studied, truly an expert and master with a soft spoken delivery. If you dont know his blog or his work I suggest you go and check them out.

The most obvious thing that sets Peters work apart from other guys out there is the carving that covers every one of his pieces. I also harbor an interest in decorative carving, Ive added it to a lot of trunks and other things Ive built, usually Celtic Knot-work designs. I started carving using a rotary tool and burr, and I always wanted to work with the real deal carving tools but I had no idea how to work or how to start. Peters blog was a great first instruction on the basic tools and how to use them.

At first glance his reproduction carving work looks like some insanely complicated patterns, something I believed would be beyond me, but then I started to catch some videos out there on Peter and his technique. Like THIS one posted on You Tube by The Village Carpenter, but even better is his appearance on The Woodwrights Shop where he talks about making "bible boxes" That episode you can watch online HERE. He gave me enough to get started, I picked up a couple carving chisels to get started, a "V" tool and a shallow gouge, and using some of what I learned watching him I did the carving on the front of my Medieval Hutch Chest.

I wanted to get more in depth into learning how Peter carries out his work, then Lie-Nielsen came out with an announcement that they were producing a video featuring Peter and his carving techniques. I dont buy many woodworking videos, I just happen to prefer books, personal preference, but this was one I was gonna pick up.

It is everything that you come to expect from Peter. Packed full of information and a detailed and thoughtful breakdown of every aspect of carving in his style. The patterns are broken down into simple steps and you are shown how to draw them out simply with a compass so you can adjust them for different width boards. In this video you are not just given a fish, as in here is two patterns you can carve if you do it this way, you are taught to fish, so you can take the lessons learned here and adapt them to other patterns and projects. I have found that since this video I look at carvings in a different way than I used to. I am not overwhelmed by the over all effect of them anymore because now I can see the different steps and stages that go into them, and in my mind I can start to break that down into a series of moves.

On the disk there are also a couple of .pdfs that can be printed out. One shows in full scale the impressions of the chisels used in the video, so even in the confusing world of carving chisel numbers and names, you can print the sheet off, take it into your friendly neighborhood woodworking store and score the same thing. There are other sheets that illustrate the starting moves for arches and a break down of the step of carving the pattern.

Heres my admission, this video is less than stimulating for people who are not interested in learning about Peters specific techniques. My wife can only watch around 5 minutes or so before she has had enough and needs to find something else to do. I love that there is no cut away, no time elapse, there is just Peter pounding out a carving in real time, and he does make quick work of it. Honestly, the first time I tried to watch the video I was excited that it had arrived, but I had finished a long day at work and life and I wasnt completely in the right frame of mind to sit and learn. I just wanted to pop it in because it was new. In about 20 minutes Peters smooth, soft spoken voice had me dozing off in my chair. (In his defense, I can fall asleep during an action movie if the days been long enough, so I blame myself for this, not Mr. Follansbee)

A couple of days later I returned to the culprit chair and the DVD remote in different circumstances, this time I watched the whole thing, and I have watched it in whole and in part several times since. If you pick up this video I would think about bringing it right into the shop with you, on your laptop or portable DVD player, so you can work right alongside it. Figuring out the work while you watch it and creating some muscle memory to go along with it.

For my part I find Peter Follansbee very inspiring and motivating and this video only adds to that. I have read books on carving and there is something to them that bogs down, that gets lost in translation. Carving is an art of motion, it is one of the few things I believe translates best on video. Turning may be the the other thing that comes to mind first. If you are looking to expand your skill set and add hand carving to your repertoire then I suggest this video as a good place to start. It has convinced me that the level of work that peter does is not only accessible and achievable, but in a lot of ways (in my humble opinion) preferable to other methods of achieving such a look.

It did inspire me into one big purchase with the tax return money this year. before I owned the video I owned these two carving chisels.

After the video I felt like I could justify a few more chisels, at an area antique mall I had been watching this set in its case for a couple years, always surprised when I went in and found them there. Well they arent there anymore, theyre in my shop now.

I have to clean them up a little and they all need some sharpening or honing, but Im excited to break wood with these babies soon.

If you havent seen it there is a preview of video Lie-Nielsen posted on You Tube. You can watch that preview HERE

Cheers
Oldwolf

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Monday, February 17, 2014

How to Choose Bathroom Accessories and Mirror Defoggers

Technology has advanced, creating amazing items. The latest bathroom accessories, includes the electronic bath mirror defoggers. The defoggers are nice, since now you can step out of the shower or bath and feel relaxed knowing that you do not have to wait until the mirror is free of fog.

How it works:
The electronic defoggers give you the advantage of freeing up time, since you do not have to blow dry, wait, or wipe your mirror after bathing. Now, you can close the door while taking a bath. Now you can bath with your spouse while he or she showers at the same time, since when you step out the mirror will be free of fog.

The latest invention takes one beyond expediency. Now, you can put on your face after showing, shave, insert contact lenses, style your hair, etc, without waiting until the mirror is free of fog.

The latest inventions save you time. How the defogger works is simple. Once you install the unit, you merely flick a switch and the defogger will do the rest. The device connects to the light switch, which when you turn on the bathroom light the defogger will instantly activate.

Technology has designed a timesaving, cost-effective solution. The defoggers will match your budget, since you can activate the defoggers without worrying about your electric bill increasing. The device uses less electricity than any other device, such as light bulbs, or fixtures installed in your bathroom.

Defoggers offer you flexibility. Technology has designed the devices to fit behind your bathroom mirror, yet the device will cover the surrounding areas, thus defogging your mirrors.

How to install:
Defoggers are easy to install. The defogger has an attached heater, which is installed in an electronic box. The unit is then hard-wired to the bath defogger. Next, you mount the defogger on the wall, by sticking the unit and replace your mirror.

How much wattage does the defogger use.
As I said, the defoggers are cost-effective. Defoggers run from 110-watt. You have the option of choosing the 120-watt units also, as well as the 240-voltage.

How do I choose tools for installation?
You will have instructions available when you purchase your unit. The instruction manual will inform you what tools you need to install. In some instances, you may need to drill holes in your wall to affix your mirror. You may need a drill, drill bits, etc. It depends if you need to accommodate your fixtures and/or wall outlets. You want to avoid cutting or drilling holes in to the mirror itself.

How do I take care of my defogger?
Defoggers today are free of maintenance. Defoggers are designed to last up to 10 years or longer.

How are the defoggers tested?
Leading, international labs, such as CE and ETL, test defoggers. The units are certified by CSA.

How much do the defoggers cost?
It depends where you purchase the bath defoggers. Online you can find bath defoggers, which you can purchase at $89, or $179. It depends on what you want. We recommend you contrast and compare pricing to find the bargains. Keep in mind however; quality is important. If you find generics, you may find better deals, yet how long will the unit last? If you have to purchase a new unit every month, couple of years, etc, thus you are not receiving quality.

How do I consider shipping?
You have the choice of choosing express airmail, expedited, or standard mail. From my experience standard is affordable and arrives sooner than airmail or express.

Now that you’ve considered bath defoggers, you may want to consider the latest décor wall mirrors.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

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