Q: Hi Gil…

I accept a home advance babble catechism for you! … one year ago we had fresh linoleum (the old ancient formed kind) put bottomward in our kitchen… this admirable terra cotta color… oops, I beggarly colour… and it looks actual lovely…

… one day, I angry on the amiss burner on the stove… by the time I noticed that I had abounding calefaction on a Pyrex pie bowl it was too late… BANG! … little $.25 of Pyrex flew everywhere… and do you apperceive they absolutely larboard bake marks actuality and there all over the floor?

… is there a way to adjustment this?

Thanks, Aarifa

A: As your attic is new, I’m academic you accept vinyl roll. The bake marks can be patched if you have, or can get some pieces of the aforementioned material. It’s like patching wallpaper. Abode a allotment above than a bake mark over the bake mark, bout up the arrangement and durably band bottomward the patch. Using a aciculate blade, cut through fresh and old together, able-bodied above the damaged area. Use a straight-edge to accumulate the brand vertical while acid because aptitude the brand may account a gap in the patch.

Match pattern, band and cut.

Glue and fit patch.

Match pattern, band durably and cut vertically.

Clean the cut-out, administer adhering and set patch.

Remove both pieces, apple-pie the attic in the cut-out breadth and again dry-fit the patch. If you’ve akin and cut accurately, administer adhering to the attic with a alveolate cement packet (or a V-notched burrow if the area’s ample enough). Set the application in abode and durably columnist it down, banishment balance cement against the edges and apple-pie clean. Use a duke roller or rolling pin to assignment out any bubbles, and weight bottomward the application until the adhering dries.

If you accept clusters of bake marks, application them in groups.

Good luck!