Spring Cleaning and then… Bike into the Sunset

By admin | Published: April 18, 2010
Are you in a quandary when it comes the age-old rit­ual of “Spring Clean­ing,” or feel like the lead in “Basic Home Repair for Dummies?”

Dis­trict Hard­ware (DH), located at 24th and L St (across from West End Library), has the per­fect solu­tions and tools, and is always ready to guide you. Many times I’ve walked in and said, “I want to do such and such,” and an informed con­ver­sa­tion begins cov­er­ing my options, appro­pri­ate equip­ment avail­able, and some guid­ance of how to put it all together. DH has also devel­oped a ter­rific Web­site, www. districthardware.com, for the novice. You can gauge a project’s dif­fi­culty by brows­ing the “Projects” sec­tion. And with spring in mind, nav­i­gate to the “Lawn & Gar­den” sec­tion for a robust menu of choices, e.g. to learn what spe­cific tools are designed for, along with tips to main­tain them from sea­son to sea­son. There are many incred­i­bly easy and help­ful tips, such as how to clean up children’s “graf­fiti,” which use every­day house­hold ingredients:

  • For ink spots, rinse the walls with a clean white rag and a clean­ing solu­tion com­posed of one table­spoon chlo­rine bleach to each cup of warm water;
  • For crayon and scuff marks, mix water and bak­ing soda until it has a pasty con­sis­tency. Then clean the spots by care­fully rub­bing them with the mix­ture and steel wool…

    • Even if clean­ing, gar­den­ing nor home repair is still not your thing, the trip is not wasted; DH can per­form a host of small appli­ance and wheel­chair repairs, lamp rewiring, lock rekey­ing and key cutting.

    And, the BICYCLE SHOP located within DH is a low-key, friendly, bike sales and ser­vice shop that does tune-ups as well as sells a remark­able array of bicy­cle bells, seats, flash­ers and bas­kets to “deck out” your ride for the spring.

    Dis­trict Hard­ware. Open Daily (202) 659‑8686 | www.districthardware.com


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