You pull out your car from the garage and you find that some fluid is leaking from the car! How can you tell whether it is break fluid leak, power steering fluid leak or just the water from your air conditioner? Let’s find out.
Read on:
• Place a white cardboard under your car on the spot where you noticed a leak. Leave it for few hours.
• After the fluid gets deposited on the sheet, identify the color, texture and odor of the fluid.
• Oily and black: It is the engine oil. If the puddle is larger than a silver dollar, call the mechanic.
• Oily and red: It is the transmission fluid.
• Slightly oily, green or yellow: This is likely a coolant system leak.
• Clear and oily: The fluid leaking from your car may be the brake fluid.
• Clear but not oily: This is perhaps the water leaking either from the air conditioner or it is the windshield washer fluid.

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So you tussle through the litter in your home on a daily basis, isn’t it? And when you ultimately keep your home spick and span, an unorganized garage can make you go mad! Keeping garage spotless is as important as any other part of your residence. Follow a few tips given below to realize the task.

Floor space:
One of the important things to do while organizing your garage is to free up the floor space. Build an enclosed lean-to shed on the side of the garage to keep the bicycles, wheel barrow, snow blower and other large items.

Wall storage:
Hooks, racks, custom-made cabinets and nails are the best solutions for wall storage.

Rubber- made cabinets:
These are one of the customized cabinets which are easy to fix. You don’t have to paint or maintain them. You just need rubber mallets to hammer the interlocking pieces together. Screw the cabinets to the wall and your custom-made cabinets are ready to use!

Keep your plan simple. Once you identify the storage needs, you will be able to organize your garage in a better way.

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So you find it difficult to fit your car into your garage and most of the time you have to park your car outside the drive way. Why? This is because all the “stuff” in your garage is piled up haphazardly and that is why you are left with no option other than parking your car outside.

Hence, it is the time to get organized. Here’s how.

Dump the unwanted items: What are the old toys doing in your garage even when your kids have outgrown them? They are collecting dust for no reason. The toys rather deserve to be dumped in the garbage can. If there are tools, boxes and other items which are taking up huge space and which are of no use now, it is better to sell them. Have a garage sale for all the stuff which you don’t need. This will be a good option to earn some money and buy some useful stuff for your garage. These will be the storage materials for the garage.

Store the useful: Store the useful materials in shelves, drawers, cabinets and bins. Keep your useful tools in tool boxes.

Maximize the space: Now that you have categorized the items and stored them accordingly, the next step is to maximize the garage space. For this purpose, use tall sturdy shelving units and portable bins. Keep the bins on wire racks for easy access and storage. Drawers are also good options for storage purposes.

This way, organize your garage, maximize the space and look how easily your car fits into your spick and span garage!

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Do you think that your garage door will break at any time? Need to replace them? If yes then go ahead and replace your garage doors with the newer ones that have many features which are not present on older models. Here is the guidance for you to replace the garage doors. Read on.

The advantage of modern garage doors is that they contain insulation which can provide valuable sound proofing and also save a lot of money. The security features in today’s garage doors are better as compared to the older versions. The garage doors have in fact evolved as a way into your home!

Newer garage doors fulfill people’s need for little maintenance of the doors.

The older garage doors were made of wood and now, garage doors made of fiberglass and steel are the popular choices since they are much more durable than wooden doors and do not have the problems associated with swelling. Moreover, they require less maintenance. Steel and fiberglass doors are available in a number of different colors.

If you want to get natural light enter into your garage without compromising the security features, then you can go for the new garage doors which include high strength plastic windows which allow the natural light to come in at the same time provide you the required security for your garage items including your car.

Thanks to the dramatic improvement in the technology used in the garage doors which make them durable and secure. So if you want to install the garage doors yourself, make sure that you do the task with some external assistance because garage doors are very large and quite heavy. So while installing them, take some assistance by a professional.

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The key storage area in your home is probably your garage. Wonder why your garage always looks cluttered? This is because the lack of proper storage system in your garage.  Do you want to solve the problem of storage and have a better storage system in your garage? Read on to get the answer.

Some of the most popular of garage storage systems are cabinets, shelves, wall-mounted racks and plastic containers.

Cabinets: Store items need to be protected from dust and moisture. Cabinets are the best solution to hide clutter in your garage and protect the items from dust and moisture. To store the maximum items, look for those similar to kitchen cabinets. These kinds of cabinets have various features including adjustable shelves, drawer slides, upper and lower cabinets.

Material of cabinets: You can opt for cabinets made of plywood, metal or plastic. There is another option called the Medium Density Fiberboard. These are stronger as compared to other materials.  

However, there are certain limitations of these materials. Particle board gets swelled if they are wet. But, plywood is stronger and won’t swell if it is wet. On the other hand, metal rusts if the paint wears out. Plastics have weight limit. They weigh less than other materials which limits the number of items that can be stored. 

Coatings of the cabinet: Most of the cabinets are made from wood or fibers of wood, coated with thin plastic. 

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Wanna know how to remove that ugly oil spots in your garage which makes the place greasy? Just follow a few tips and wander in your garage without slipping!
• Use a powdered laundry detergent and sprinkle it all over the stain. You can also use a hydrocarbon mitigate agent for the purpose.
• Pour water on the stain. If the stain is too hard to remove, pour lukewarm water.
• Wait for at least 12 hours before rinsing off with water.
• Rinse with water.
• Now your garage floor is spotless!

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