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For Anyone With Comcast Phone & Internet
Hello, So hard trying to get meaningful answers out of their phone reps. Presently, we have Verizon for our phone service. Thinking of getting one of the Comcast packages with their phone service. Now...
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Termites can be useful
"Kenneth McLeod, who has died aged 92, was captured by the Japanese in the Second World War and was one of the last surviving veterans who worked on the bridge over the River Kwai." [...] "Mr McLeod...
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Two Mobile Home Questions (from Non-Mobile Home Owner)
1) If a home is on a foundation, is there a way to access floor-based forced-heating/cooling? I'm amazed by the feces, cigarette butts, mold, dust, cooking grease, pet hair I find when I visit these...
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12 years ago
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Can I paint stainless steel?
I have a tripple wall chimney of stainless steel that I would like to color black. Can I paint stainless steel with high temp Rustoleum, or should I wrap it with galvanized or aluinium and paint that?...
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12 years ago
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I hung a door!
It was a shed, it was crude, but it's a good as the pro who did it before me. w00t! Accomplishment! ;) nb
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Low water cutoff switch for water well pump. Experience with brands?
Apparently I have the choice of two popular makes of low water pump cut off switches, the Franklin "Pumptec - Plus" and the Symcom "PumpSaver Plus". I have no experience with either and haven't been...
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12 years ago
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Good phillips driver bit
I've asked before and got no good answer. Doesn't ANYBODY make a good quality hardened phillips driver bit for power drivers for screwing phillips head deck, etc, screws? These pieces of crap they...
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Another OT, but a good one
If this doesn't warm the cockles of your heart, both young and old, then you must have mighty cold cockles. Buzz Aldrin - moon walking astronaut can only take so much crap.
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12 years ago
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Armor All
Have come to learn that a preferred product of mine, Armor All Waterproofing Wood Protector, has been discontinued. Might someone be able to recommend a replacement? Ideally the exact same product but...
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12 years ago
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Puzzling Toilet Problem
Odd toilet leak problem here for anyone who wants to take a shot at a hard to diagnose condition. Symptom: Toilet tank leaks into bowl, causing very frequent (every 15 minutes or so) top ups of the...
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12 years ago
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spiderman
What is the stickiest thing you can come up with without becoming something other than water-based?
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12 years ago
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Step one of restoring storm damage from Memorial day weekend
Some of you may recall my tale of woe about the storm here six weeks or so ago, and how my already-wrinkled-from-a-previous-storm shed got crushed, and me commenting from time to time that there are...
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12 years ago
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Painting secrets
I just know somebody from an initials-only organization is going to come a disappear me for revealing these gems. But a Popular Mechanics article promotes the following: * Sanding * Tinted primer *...
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adhesive for wall tile in a shower
I'm hanging 3 x 6 x 1/4" tile in a half shower. I've got durock on the bottom foot and treated sheetrock on everything above. So I can tile the bottom of it conventionally, and would expect to use...
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cutler hammer 200 amp breaker
From the meter to the top of the 200amp disconnect at the pole I have 240 v...in the home at the top of the main breaker I get 240v...only w/ the breaker off...when I turn the breaker on for the whole...
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12 years ago
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