Welcome to our brand-new column, The Basic facts, in which we highlight the smallest however mightiest information in your home: attractive hardware, hinges, and components.
Keep in mind the little slots in the back of mirrored restroom cabinets? Professionals installed them in years previous as small garbage chutes for utilized razor blades. Years later on, however, those doing restroom restorations opened the wall to expose an avalanche of utilized and rusty blades (see here). Similar to a lot of methods we people get rid of our fragments, it’s the example of fast however not sustainable or sensical.
A far better service? A made-to-last razor and a helpful area to keep it (and getting rid of the blades correctly, i.e. in a sharps collection container, not in the wall).



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