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HD ceramic flower-pot: no hole in bottom. Want to use outside. HELP!
Of course, when it rains a bunch, as it has been recently (NYC area), next day plant in pot is submerged under an inch of water. My bet is that those holeless things are built for *indoor* use, where...
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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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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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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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Door jambs
Which is better - wood or a composite? Thanks. Kate
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Water bed heater costs a 1$ a day.
http://www.bcremc.com/appliance.html
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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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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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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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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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