Home maintenance, to me, is about way more than caulking windows or sprucing up the lawn before cold weather hits. So much of it is about the little, daily nags that cost us time and joy like a leaky faucet that drips, drips, drips happiness all day long.
For example, the cutting board I use all the time but put off fixing!
When you do DIY like we do, sometimes things break or wear out. We make this stuff from scratch. No factory or team of engineers. Just us. So, you can see the not-so-attached ‘foot’ on my cutting board.
I made this cutting board from counter material left over from our kitchen renovation. But, like everyone in the world, I made kids’ lunches and went grocery shopping—yes, I’m a paper bags guy; who’s with me!?—instead of fixing it. Still, it was wearing on me.
At the same time, I didn’t want the joy of home maintenance to be washed out by doing a fix I’d only have to do again later. Enter Original Gorilla Glue. And an orange. We’ll get to the citrus in a minute.
My mighty 5-in-1 painter’s tool is a home maintenance hero. I used it to scrape up the old glue.
There is no adhesive in the world that sticks to dust. A little sandpaper cleans up both surfaces.
Wet the surface first, then apply a bit of Gorilla Glue.
Gorilla Glue is powerful. I used the weight of an orange to ‘clamp’ the repair. Gorilla Glue is a little more powerful than a single piece of fruit. See below.
I didn’t really need to do anything, but I’m me. So I cleaned up the squeeze-out from my repair with a razor blade.
One last thing. Gorilla Glue is powerhouse. You don’t need a gallon of it. The right amount is the best amount!
