Household Repairs Page torn. Place a sheet of wax paper under the tear. Put a little white paste on the torn edges and bring them together. Then rub a strip of white tissue paper into the paste so that it sticks the entire length of the tear. Weight down until paste dries. Then tear off excess tissue, pulling toward the tear from both sides. This repair is easy to make and does not become soiled or discolored like a repair made with cellulose tape.

Page loose. Apply a W strip of white paste to the inside margin of the leaf. Insert in book so that it sticks to adjacent page. To prevent paste from spreading over the two pages, place wax paper between them. Press down loose page until paste dries.

Page corner torn off. Place a piece of matching paper under the torn page and trace missing corner on it with a pencil. Cut the right angle with scissors or a razor blade, and tear along the hypotenuse parallel with the pencil line but %" further from the corner. The tear should have a feathered edge. Paste new corner to page with Elmer's Glue-All.




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December 4, 2008