Make an Instant Chandelier with Makita Cordless Drill

A chandelier for your living room or dining area can easily spice up the sophistication of your home. From a simple centerpiece that can turn out to be a masterpiece, use your clever imaginations of what you can do to and let your Makita cordless tool help you make your ideas come to life.

I found this chandelier very interesting and quiet easy to work out. With budgeted materials yet a contemporary looking chandelier. It looks easy to create. You can also use recycled empty jars of your peanut butter or other containers that can be used for this.

What you will need. A wood for the platform base, empty jars, black cable, mason jars, lamp socket.


1. Start from drilling holes to the platform base of the chandelier to where the cable wires exactly fits. Use your Makita cordless driver drill with bits that is compatible to wood.

2. Do the wiring of the bulbs. If you are not familiar with electrical installation, get help with a friend who can do this. You can use other any color cable wire. Just make sure the wire can handle the voltage of the bulbs.

3. Clean the mason jars. You can paint them if you want to. Try experimenting.

4. If you are done with the wirings, insert it to the jars carefully one by one. You don’t have to rush. Do it gently with ease.

5. Hang the chandelier between 30 to 36 inches above from the dining table. Adjust it to where you feel comfortable.

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How to Replace Damaged Floorboard DIY

The first thing we have in mind whenever we have something broken and needs to be fix in our homes is to call a professional or a handy man. It’s a good thing to solve the problem quickly rather than waiting for it to become worst and may cause harm to others. But little did they know that having a complete tool set on your home can solve quick fixes on your house. Home owners became more productive with their set of tools that leads them to be a DIY enthusiast.

To give you additional knowledge on how to save up, here is an example of DIY steps on how to replace your damaged floorboard.

1. Remove the damaged floorboard. Start drawing a line across its width. Prepare the a power drill with 20mm spade bit then bore several holes along the line you draw on the damaged line. Then use a chisel along the line to make it square.

2. Drill several holes with about 300mm along he center line of the damaged floorboard. Use the chisel to drive along the center split vertically and remove the waste one at a time per piece with the pinch bar.

3. If there are nails stock inside, push them in using the nail punch. If you have to remover several floorboards, always start where the tip is exposed. Drill nails into it at the 45 degree angle on every 200 mm.

4. Clean up the area that needs replacement by chiseling off lower lip of groove. Position in very well and cover with the timber block. Now hammer it with mallet until it perfectly fit.

5. Lock the new floorboard replacement. Drill in and sink nails with your drill and complete the car by finishing t with varnish.

Get on the details about hand tools and other DIY tools you might need for your future projects and quick fixes today.

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