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Where did the fan go? How high is the roof?
Where did the fan go? How high is the roof? A friend had two layers of roof removed and a new roof put on, House was built about 1969, and had the second roof put on about 1990. From the outside of...
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a problem with electric meters?
One of my friends sends me an email about a local state rep who is preseinting to the Md. Public Service Commission a "case" to allow people to reject smart meters. Nowhere does it say what kind of...
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Does it matter if a Jandy valve is mounted with the INLET wrong?
In another thread, we determined I needed to replace my cracked Jandy valve. I have nagging questions I'm hoping a pool owner might know. LABELS: My pool equipment is well labeled but I don't...
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Painting Steel Front Door/Replacing Lockset Questions
Help! I don't know where to start. The previous owners have at least three coats of paint on my front door. From the elements, the paint has hair line cracks in it. Can a professional painter sand and...
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Shutting off those solar yard lights
The first of these solar yard lights had a small switch to turn them on and off. As they got cheaper, the switches were eliminated in favor of a small plastic strip that was removed to turn them on,...
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Refrigerator buy-back program
Our electric utility is offering to buy back old refrigerators (between 10 and 30 cu. ft.) for $30. I can see the logic of this (and of the subsidized CFLs), because it may postpone the need to build...
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Painting Front Door/New Door Lockset
Help! I don't know where to start. The previous owners have at least three coats of paint on my front door. From the elements, the paint has hair line cracks in it. Can a professional painter sand and...
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OT - slightly How do you refill one of those McCormick Pepper grinders?
Rather that do that, buy a decent pepper mill and just buy peppercorns to grind. Long term, better pepper, lower cost.
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Drywall Question...
i have a hole about 12 x 12 in a closet that i want repaired. I spoke to super of my building he says he can put a piece of wood in it then screw it in My question is can he not get a piece of drywall...
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OT If only.
If only she'd a had a six shooter, she'd a sorted him out good. This footage was taken whilst monitoring the Heythrop Hunt. Hunt members all over the country often use the tactic of holding up...
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Sodium lamps or ballast going bad?
Awl -- Got a cupla 70 W jobbies to light up what the city won't light up, and after about a year, one goes off, on, off, on with that whitish glow, rather than the sodium yellow. Is this the bulb...
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Cost for stump grinding?
And be careful when it does. My wife stopped in the spot we had a stump years earlier. Her entire leg went into the hole causing minor injury. Thankfully, there was someone there to help her out of...
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Drilling advice needed.
Does your drill press do left? Can you use a reverse fluted drill bit? Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus . I usually somehow manage to remove a broken bolt but in this instance that is not...
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Trailer hitch lock is stuck
You already did the oil and hammer method. Try to hammer harder!!!! It's junk anyhow..... If that dont work, use an angle grinder and cut it off. Thats a no brainer.... Of course you'll have to buy a...
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Flowers
Anywhere, no care: day lilies, sedum, hosta, iris, lavender, lamb's ears (delicate but pretty), coral bells (not showy flowers but hummers like them) Shady (filtered sunlight-everything needs some...
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