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Gas Fired Hot Water Heater Safety Question

Hello, Regarding the typical home (vertical cylindrical type) gas fired hot water heater. Is it "legal," or a good idea...
7 comments posted 15yrs
posted by rgsros
7 comments posted 15yrs posted by rgsros

Repairing A Good Size Hole In Ceiling ?

Hello, Lots of good advice on my previous Post regarding the damage from a pinhole leak in Copper water pipe in my ceil...
10 comments posted 15yrs
posted by rgsros
10 comments posted 15yrs posted by rgsros

Need a replacement OTR microwave

I have a GE Spacemaker above the range microwave and it has been simply excellent for about 15 years! However, it has d...
14 comments posted 15yrs
posted by bsaking
14 comments posted 15yrs posted by bsaking

Redneck Log Splitter

Seems to work okay... Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=40sCGb678sQ
25 comments posted 15yrs
posted by heybub
25 comments posted 15yrs posted by heybub

Wall plates

I'm looking for two different wall plates. I know I'm probably looking for something they don't make, knowing me. #1. D...
22 comments posted 15yrs
posted by ichasetrains
22 comments posted 15yrs posted by ichasetrains

Basement bathrooms -- upflush/Saniflo systems

I am putting a full bath in a basement level apartment. The basement has a concrete floor, and center line of the horiz...
8 comments posted 15yrs
posted by RogerT
8 comments posted 15yrs posted by RogerT

Short measure at propane tank exchange stations

While waiting for my wife outside a store yesterday, I passed the time by reading the information on the "Blue Rhino" p...
46 comments posted 15yrs
posted by Nobody
46 comments posted 15yrs posted by Nobody

New toilet

Anybody tried those new water saver toilets the one with a piss button and a s*it button?
4 comments posted 15yrs
posted by boleyn7
4 comments posted 15yrs posted by boleyn7

Toilet Shims - Hard or Soft

MAY be using them soon. At the Borg they had hard plastic and softer rubber (soft like a door stop wedge). Flooring will...
3 comments posted 15yrs
posted by postmaster
3 comments posted 15yrs posted by postmaster