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How to Make a Bathtub Tray?

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Making a tray for your bathtub is a pretty basic DIY project requiring very little carpentry know-how! The first step is to simply purchase a piece of lumber large enough to fit your tub and hold all of your bath gear. If you want to be fancy about it, you can create holders for specific items by purchasing an extra piece of wood, cutting holes out of it, and then attaching that to your baseboard.


Or you can keep it simple by sticking to just 1 piece of wood. Either way, it’s only a matter of sealing your wood, sticking some grippers to the bottom, and attaching a pair of handles if desired. An older clawfoot tub may not support a tray without it falling in. Add support legs to the ends of your tray so it braces against the side of the tub.


Purchase lumber cut to size. Bring your tub’s measurements to the store. Select the size board you need (for example, a 1” x 10”). Ask the staff to cut it down to size to match the width of your tub. When you bring it home, double-check that the board rests on both sides of your tub’s rim. If you are creating holders, remember to ask for a second board of equal size.


To avoid confusion, remember that lumber sizes are H x W (for example, 1” high and 10” wide). Therefore you are cutting the board’s length to match your tub’s width. Add an extra half-inch (1.25 cm) or so to each measurement to make sure the object has adequate room to fit. For square or rectangular holders, use a table saw to cut them. For circular holes, attach an appropriately sized hole saw to a screw gun.


Attach the 2 boards. First, sand the edges of each cut with sandpaper so they’re smooth, as well as the top of the base board. Then place the top board on top of the base board so they line up evenly. Use drywall screws to screw them together around all four sides. Make sure your screws aren’t so long that they poke through the bottom of your base board.

How to fix a toilet?

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Is there anything more terrifying than a toilet about to overflow? A creaking, burbling, malfunctioning monster of a commode is the fear of any homeowner. Fortunately, most common toilet problems can be easily and quickly fixed by diagnosing the correct problem and making a few simple adjustments.

Shut the water off. If your toilet has become clogged, don’t try to flush it or you’ll risk overflowing the toilet. Find the water valve on the wall that connects the waterline to the toilet and turn it clockwise until it stops. Water should stop coming into the toilet tank. With any toilet tank or flushing issue, you’ll want to shut the water off first as a safety precaution. Cleaning up a toilet that’s overflown is obviously the biggest of bummers.

Get a plunger. It’s called the plumber’s helper for a reason. Some plungers have complicated bulb shapes and some are simple suction cups, but you just need to make sure your plunger is big enough to cover the opening at the bottom of the toilet bowl.

Make sure there’s enough water in the toilet bowl to cover the cup of the plunger. It’s easier to have some water to force the clog out with, but now that you’ve shut off the water you can’t flush anymore in from the tank. Get a few cups of water from the sink to add to the bowl if you need to.

Fix the suction cup onto the opening at the bottom of the bowl. Pump it forcefully and evenly. You should start to hear a gurgling in the pipe and feel some pressure building if you’ve created a suction with the plunger. After 5-10 pumps with the plunger, break the seal and see if the clog comes loose. If not, try again. If you can see the clog come up, you can try to flush the water down without turning the water back on. There should be enough water in the bowl to flush it.

If the water all flushes down by itself after plunging, turn the water back on and let it run for a few minutes. When the water settles, try flushing it, but watch carefully and make sure it doesn’t start to overflow. Shut off the water quickly if it does.

Use a plumber’s auger or a “snake.” If the clog is close to the top, the plunger should get it. If it has worked its way down the pipe, however, you might need the heavy artillery. A plumber’s auger, also called a “snake,” is essentially a long wire that you can reel out and guide through the pipe to forcefully dislodge the clog and then reel back up. Aim the tip of the auger into the bowl drain and reel it out. Be very careful not to force it and crank slowly and evenly.

You don’t want to bust a pipe fitting or get the auger stuck. When you’ve run the auger out, or feel that you’ve broken up the clog, reel it back in and try to plunge the toilet again or flush it and see if the clog has worked it’s way through. If you don’t want to buy an auger, you can fashion a simple device with a wire hanger to try to get at the clog.

The cold knowledge about toilet that you don’t know

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As a symbol of quality of life, toilets are used by more and more families and public places. The emergence of toilets not only makes toilets sanitary, but also makes many developed countries begin to attach importance to the construction of urban tap water and sewage system. It can be said that the history of toilet development also reflects the history of human civilization and sanitation.

However, it should bring convenience toilet to people, but it also brings unexpected troubles. When there is a lot of toilet outside, even if there is a squat toilet, everyone will wait in line at the door. Some people do not talk about public morality, squatting directly on the toilet, stepping on footprints and muddy water. A good bathroom will provide toilet seat pad, but some people feel unhygienic. Dirty is the only consensus that we have of public bathroom toilet.

The toilet is small and healthy is important. Try to use squat toilets in public places. Since there is no guarantee that public bathroom will be disinfected after each use, so public places should try to choose squat toilets. If the old man is not convenient to squat, use paper to wipe the washer toilet. Planners should also be considerate of the concerns of everyone, while adding more humanized design, such as public toilet crouching toilet on both sides of the safety handrail.

Cardiovascular patients choose toilets. When you go out, you’d better take a portable toilet stool, you can change the squat toilet into a simple toilet, to reduce the squat caused by the sudden rise in blood pressure on the upper body caused by the accident. Go to the toilet at home, try not to plug in the door, so that in the event of an accident, the family can be found in the first place.

Cover the toilet seat when flushing. If the toilet lid is opened during flushing, the instantaneous cyclone in the toilet can throw germs or microorganisms into the air up to 6 meters high and suspend them in the air for hours, thereby contaminating walls and other objects. We should develop the habit of covering the toilet lid while flushing.

Three days scrubbing, both inside and outside of toilet. Many people will wait until the toilet dirt after cleaning, in fact, by this time the toilet inside and outside the bacteria already dense. It’s best to clean it once every three days. If you have urinary tract infection in your home, it’s best to sterilize toilet with household disinfectant. The outer side of the toilet is also best cleaned. Use a piece of cloth instead of mixing it with other rag.

The old man’s toilet is equipped with an armrest. If there is an old person in the family, the toilet door should be opened outside. If it is opened inside, it is difficult to push the door open after the old man falls down unexpectedly. If conditions permit, the toilet should be equipped with handrails and easy-to-use ringing bells, the elderly in case of an accident can promptly notify their families.

How do I choose the bathroom? BARANA tells you.

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The bathroom is a form of expression that best reflects the master’s artistic taste. With the development of society, the progress of science and technology and the improvement of people’s aesthetic ideas, the toilet has also become a fashion theme in the family decoration. Through the collocation of various products, the artistic taste of every family, the status of the master and the space of the modern elegant life are reflected.

Apart from considering the size, style and color of the bathroom cabinet, the following factors should be considered: moisture-proof, waterproof and moth proofing. The quality of materials directly affects the quality of products, preferably with moisture-proof materials. BARANA multi-storey solid wood board has good structural stability, is not easy to deform, and green environmental protection, environmental protection grade reaches E0 level.

The higher the glossiness of the toilet, the higher the density is, the easier it is to clean. The quality of porcelain is directly related to the life of the toilet. The higher the firing temperature is, the better the quality of porcelain is. The flushing performance of the toilet depends directly on the design of the pipeline, and is also related to the height of the water tank and the water parts. Modern popular flushing methods toilet include direct impact, siphon type and so on. The straight pipe has large diameter and strong flushing. The siphon toilet is due to the pressure difference, which causes the liquid to flow from a high pressure water level to a low pressure level and full of siphons. The noise of the flush is small.

The quality of the water determines whether the toilet is used normally, and more than 90% of the problems appear on the water parts. It is necessary to check the water parts carefully when buying. It is best to install it before the factory comes out, see whether the structure is compact, whether the active connection is sensitive and reliable, and whether the sealing water part is smooth. In line with the concept of water-saving and environmental protection, 6 liters of flushing is a trend, 3/6 up to two stalls, good results.

The wheel base of shower room pulley should use materials that are resistant to compression and heavy resistance, such as 304 stainless steel and high-end synthetic materials. The bearing has good sealing performance, water vapor is not easy to enter the wheel, and the smoothness of the wheels is guaranteed. The pulley and the track should be closely integrated and the gap is small, so it is not easy to fall off when external force is struck, avoiding safety accidents.

Related to glass material, can be divided into ordinary glass and tempered glass, ordinary glass is cheap to use unsafe, now more use of toughened glass, according to national standard safety steel glass per 50*50mm area to reach more than 60 pieces. 3C marks are generally certified on a safe glass. 3C certification is the abbreviation of China compulsory product certification. Shower room without this logo can not be sold. The pull rod of shower room is an important support to ensure the stability of Frameless Shower room. The hardness and intensity of the pull rod are important guarantee for the impact resistance of Shower room. It is recommended not to use a stretchable pull rod, but its strength is weak.

It is often necessary to support the weight of tens of kilograms of glass. If the hardness and thickness are not enough, the service life of the shower room will be very short. Check to see if the surface of aluminum is smooth, whether there is chromatic aberration and trachoma, and section finish. When used for waste aluminum, the smoothness of the surface treatment is not enough, there will be obvious chromatic aberration and sand holes, and the smoothness of the section will be dim.

Now the bathroom is to a kind of noble, elegant style change, the popular thing is not necessarily good, the rapid rise of the avant-garde often, for durable consumer goods is out of date and disappear with the product. And the personality and the classic brand, often have a profound cultural background, its elegant taste, unique, combined with the characteristics of the times and traditional culture, creating a very strong cultural products. BARANA, with bathroom furniture as the soul, is committed to creating a fashion, comfortable and friendly living space for more people and becoming a continuing leader in the classic fashion home bathroom.