Fiber Fix - Repair Things Without Welding, Nailing or Gluing

Ever broken a tool in the middle of a project, but it's too late in the day, or you're too over the project to do much about it but swear (or possibly cry)?

Next, you think about Duct taping it together and go so far as to come up with a splint-type fix-it plan, but as you're getting the piece of starter wood from the woodpile, you realize it's just a pipe dream.

At ACE, we break stuff all the time, and we thought fixing things like shovel and broom handles, chairs, hoses, and leaky PVC pipe was just a dream too, until we were introduced to Fiber Fix. It's 100 times stronger than Duct tape, it hardens like steel and it just wraps around the broken area!

I know what you're thinking - at the moment it only comes in black, but it's paintable, and sandable.



I'm thinking this is a must in our household's camping kit and in the car's tool kit next to the Duct tape!

For full instructions, check out this video, but it's really easy to use: Just wet it, tightly wrap the item to be fixed, wait five to 10 minutes and get back to work. It will be fully cured after 24 hours and is meant to be a permanent repair. It comes with gloves, and we recommend using them. The resin will stay on whatever it touches (ie: hands, clothes), so if you trim it with scissors, or get it on your hands, wash the resin off quickly. See instructions for full safety details.

Find FiberFix at all four of our locations: Half Moon Bay, Palo Alto, San Mateo and Willow Glen.

- FACE team, Hassett ACE Hardware, Half Moon Bay

Buy Made in the USA from ACE Hardware

We have a great team at our stores called FACE (Facilitating Awesome Community Engagement) and most of the time, they impress me, but sometimes they just blow me out of the water, like with this chalkboard window art for our upcoming Fourth of July event:

ACE Rewards Card

We haven't been participating in the Ace Rewards program for very long, but in the couple of years we've been doing it, customers have already earned over $6,800! It's free to join and points are accrued on anything you purchase in the store, from a five cent wood screw, to a gallon of Clark+Kensington Paint, to a $2000 custom made fireplace door. Every little bit adds up.

Finding that the ball-peen hammer you purchased over the weekend triggered your next $5 card can be a very rewarding experience

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Monthly Home Maintenance: March

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Check your water system for leaks. Turn off the water to your house and note the readings on your water meter. Wait a hour then check your meter. If it's moved, you've got a leak somewhere and it's time to call in professionals. Check for smaller leaks in the toilets by adding a couple of drops of food coloring in the tank before you go to bed; if the color has spread to the toilet bowl in the morning, your flapper needs to be replaced.

This tip was republished here exactly as it was originally printed in the Mercury News SV Life Home and Garden section by Joan Morris.

Crouching Tiger 4022 Soul Paint

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CLARK + KENSINGTON paint and primer in one. Find your Soul Paint. Exclusively at ACE Hardware. Come in on Saturday, March 10 for FREE Paint Saturday and receive a free quart of CLARK + KENSINGTON. While supplies last. See store for details.

FREE Paint Saturday

We're debuting our new line of paint and primer in one, CLARK + KENSINGTON - exceptionally high quality at an exceptionally reasonable price. Come in on Saturday, March 3 for a FREE quart!

Participating locations:

Willow Glen ACE Hardware
2253 Lincoln Ave, San Jose, CA 95125
408-267-0223
Saturday: 7:00 am - 8:00 pm

Palo Alto ACE Hardware
875 Alma Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301
650-327-7222
Saturday: 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

Wisnom's ACE Hardware
545 First Ave, San Mateo, CA 94401
650-348-1082
Saturday: 8 am – 6 pm

Ocean Shore ACE Hardware
111 Main St., Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
650-726-5505
Saturday: 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

Monthly Home Maintenance: February

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The Mercury News published an article in their Home+Garden section back in January that I thought I would share with you all. It's a list of ways to keep up with your house's maintenance needs, a little at a time. If you're planning to sell or if you're planning to stay until you're 80, these tips are relevant to your home.

I'll be republishing these, once per month, just as they were written in the original article by Joan Morris. I tried to find a link to the article online, but to no avail. If you find it, please let me know!

"FEBRUARY:

Think "roof". Check the roof of your home for loose or missing tiles, trim branches to prevent damage and to cut off access routes for various critters, and check your chimney for cracks. You can avoid a trip to the emergency room if you actually keep off your roof, though. Stay safely on the ground and use a pair of binoculars to inspect the area. Only go up if you absolutely have to, and make sure someone is nearby to keep an eye on you."

Transcribing this made me think of a less litigious time when I was a child and my dad would get out the old aluminum ladder, the top step of which fell about a foot short of the gutter on our roof, climb on up with his "garage knife" and start cutting the moss off the edges of the shake shingles. This, to me, was a dream job and if he was in a good mood (or maybe it was if my mom was in a good mood, since I'm sure my dad wasn't worried) I could go on up there and help! It was like being in a totally different world. I hadn't yet experienced hiking, rock climbing, surfing or scuba diving, so I didn't get that were were lots of different vantage points of our world, but I did immediately get that I really liked being up in the Sycamore and Oak tree tops, looking out across the other roofs, down to my best friend's house and out at the foothills. A whole new perspective, and hence a whole new world, opened up to me from the small mountaintop of our single-story house. And neither my father or myself ever got hurt up there on that roof. In fact, I would venture to say to we got a little free and little refreshed and a little bit more whole.

- Jocelyn Broyles