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Keeping door latches from freezing
Have you ever found some sort of spray or grease that will keep stuff from freezing? We got rain yesterday, and a deep freeze right afterwards. Last night both push button door handles on my F-150...
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DIY extension
hello all, would like some advice as im attempting to do most of the building work on an extension to my house, the blockwork has been built up to joist height and ive started to fix a wallplate onto...
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toilet clogged by underwear (probably)
I've had plenty of clogged toilets in the past and have always been able to eventually push the clog through with a plunger (things usually soften up and dissolve in the water after a while). After we...
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Huge explosion in Indianapolis destroys 2 homes, damages dozens more
This one is really off the charts: aerial pictures are amazing. gas company says they can find nothing wrong, no reports of gas leaks. Only two people died. My theories: Accidental: 1) Nobody home...
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What about no-plumbing toilets
I have heard that there are toilets that do not require a drain pipe to the sewer or septic, and dont need water to flush them. I'm looking for something like that for a cabin which is only used a...
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Carbon Monoxide Detector and Humidifier?
My sister has a stand alone humidifier located against a wall a few inches away from where a carbon monoxide detector is plugged into a wall outlet. An electrician doing some work in her home told he...
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Gas Cans
I can't believe the prices for gas-cans on Ebay most of 5-gallon cans are up to$50.00 plus shipping a piece of plastic to cost that much
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Past Wiring Codes
In my early 1950s house, I decided to upgrade the bathroom outlet fixture to a GFCI, 20-amp circuit. When removing the old, metal outlet box, I found that the ground wire to the outlet was connected...
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Magical Border
It seems that the Southern border of the United States is magical. Anytime = anyone who wasn=92t born in the United States crosses it suddenly turns int= o a contractor.
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My new cabinets
Hi, I'm not sure what my purpose is for posting the pictures of my new cabinets constructed by a local carpenter. Perhaps the experts here would be able to give me some words of wisdom or consolation....
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Re-aligning garage door -- keeps coming down crooked
I've got a center sprint mounted automatic garage door where somehow the gu= ide/pull wires came off the pulley. I've messed around with a couple of h= ours and re-wrapping the wire on the pulleys,...
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Furnace problems...
I am hoping someone has some experience troubleshooting furnace problems. My furnace has just started doing the following... The venting motor starts, then the igniter glows and the burner fires up to...
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Results when you examine your garage door for broken things!
I was looking at my (other) garage door (based on a broken spring, which is the topic of another thread) when I noticed this missing pin! then I noticed this snapped hinge: this cracked bottom...
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Wire Labels That Can Take the Heat?
Anybody know if there are any write-on, or print-on labels for wiring that can take the temperature extremes of an attic, or an exterior load center, in a hot, desert area?
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Fire blocking code references
A friend of mine had some rehab work done on a one-story single-family ranch-style home, and the local inspector cited some "fire blocking" issues. My understanding is that the actual citation was for...
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