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(again?) screw into light socket: male--SWIVEL--female (for pointable floodlight)
I asked something similar a year or two ago; am trying again in case new products exist for this. For either a floodlight-in-ceiling-"can" OR pointing-down lightbulb socket in exhaust fan and light...
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steel poles
Going to put up an antenna. I'm going to look see what the home depot has to offer, but nobody puts up antennas anymore. I used to get telescoping poles. Any source ideas locally? Greg
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Is there a better way (than this) to clean this pleated pool filter?
There must be a better way to wash a pool cartridge filter! Here's a picture of the cartridge taken apart. presume the water flow is up the two holes into the INSIDE of the two pleated filter...
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11 years ago
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Water heater question
We live in an location with very hard water. We don't have a water softener and our hot water heater has the build-up of deposits so that when it starts heating up it sounds like rocks bouncing in a...
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Which countersink should I buy?
The store had 3 sizes of countersink, 1/2, 5/8, and 3/4. Which should I buy? What size do you all have? It seems to me the biggest one would work almost wherever the smaller ones do., and more, so I...
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11 years ago
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Another difficult 3-way wiring issue?
Thanks to those who last time provided great information that I used to correct all my 3-way light circuit switches. They all work fine. Except ONE. It appears to be a simple hall ceiling light with a...
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11 years ago
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Door jambs
Which is better - wood or a composite? Thanks. Kate
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11 years ago
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Water bed heater costs a 1$ a day.
http://www.bcremc.com/appliance.html
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11 years ago
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fence instead of garage!
I've seen garage kits for under $5,000. Buy a kit and put it up yourself. Get friends to help. Then again, I rebuilt a garage that tipped over. I used a tractor to lift it back up. One wall and the...
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11 years ago
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Electricity prices to jump
Ontario has lots of spare capacity, thanks to an orgy of wind-turbine building and solar panel farms that happened before the recession hit in 2008. Owners of these new plants have signed garanteed...
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11 years ago
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Huge venetian blind
In my little brick bungalow in a midwest US city, I've got an old style (~1954) venetian blind measuring about 8' wide and 6' tall, and with many years encrusted grime. Seems to be made of metal,...
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11 years ago
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Good news for a change (housing)
Prices never dropped here but new home sales did drop causing a spike in rents. Looks like those renters are looking for the American dream now. BTW: I just refinanced at 3.875% on a 30 year fixed....
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sun dial
How do you set the time on a sun dial? If it works in a location and you move it 100 miles east or west then the shadow will be in the wrong place on the numbers. there must be a way to correct it....
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What is best, lowest cost Product to stick outside pabement-type wall stones together?
Found Loctite Pavement Paver caluking in tube for sticking pavement stones together. Requires mineral spirits to clean up [that's ok] WORKS GREAT!!! But I'm doing a stacked wall of random sized stones...
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11 years ago
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You might need more home repair if this radio jammer is in your area
You might REALLY be on your own, and doing more home repairs, if the FD can't get there. dispatch should have cell phone numbers for the various chiefs and officers. Just in case. Christopher A. Young...
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