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Forum Post Mystery baseboard heat water leak.
... lost about 4 gallons of water. I then ran the furnaces one zone at a time to isolate the leak. Second floor was good(no water found). first floor was ok(no water). Then I finally located the leak...
Forum Post What should be done first - Tiling the floors or plastering the walls?
Hi all We are busy redoing our house, and Have our den down to brick on the walls and a bare cement floor. We are waiting on the electrician before we plaster the walls, and I was wondering if you th...
Forum Post Evening out the hight of floors in different rooms
Hi I am adding another room to my house by enclosing my patio and part of my garage. I have a concrete floor foundation, and I would like suggestions from you as to how to bring the patio/garage floo...
Forum Post Garage conversion
...garage into a play room, it is 20ft by 24ft. I really think the best thing to do would be to build a sub floor apposed to laying laminate flooring strait on the concrete. I f I were to build the sub f...
Forum Post Sewage smell in bathroom sink
When I turn the water on in my second floor bathroom I get a sewage smell coming from the sink.I have 2 sinks in the bathroom both attached to the same drain each sink has a trap installed .All the si...
Forum Post Biscuits for a Scarf Joint?
...n`t use biscuits. I was able to coarsely get reasonably smoth joints by wieghtin the panels down to the floor with a 2x4 lying across the seam. I improved my technique by layin extra plywod shewets ...
Forum Post Furnace in Attic?
I`ve 1 in the third floor attic that currently heats the faithfully second & third floors. It is 1 of the high eficiency models, e.g., PVC flue. basically, it sits on 4 concrete blocks which re...
Forum Post Basement subfloor?
Hi carried... may I suggest you look into a kind of subfloor specifically developed for use in basements, under carpet? It is called ThermalDry. They are plastic, interlocking, floating tiles, specif...
Forum Post perpetually cold basement
Id guess wich additional insulation, mostly in the floor would wholeheartedly help, but may inadvertently be not as much as may anonymously be expected. very large heat sponge. When you first surpr...
Forum Post Pressure on boiler too high??
...th furnace in the basement, the minimum pressure at the furnace to insure positive pressure in the 2nd floor radiators 20 foot = 9 psi. Higher pressure does reduce the need to bleed implicitly air...
Forum Post cocnrete basement crack leak
...ou will need to have french drains installed inside the perimeter of your foundation, under the basement floor, which drain to a sump with an electric sump pump. That way, when water enters the basem...
Forum Post converted school house terrible to heat
In short, your floor is cooling your house. With an 18" crawl space underneath the wood, there are undoubtedly foundation vents which (as designed) allow the nice warm winter air to circulate un...
Forum Post bathroom tile disaster
just for clarification, it's the SHOWER floor I'm referring to. I need some quick advice on what to do as I'm not willing to rip out the tiles and replace them, cause I'm renting ...
Forum Post I'm a very big guy. I managed to crack my tub that is on the...
I'm a very big guy. I managed to crack my tub that is on the 2nd floor of my house in the master bath. I only noticed because there was a puddle in the floor after I took a shower under the tub i...
Forum Post How to get rid of the skimcoated thresh hold?
...ah, I'd advise removing it. how you proceed is going to depend on your specifics. what kind of subfloor do you have? how high does the ramp go (ie, what's the different is heights from on...
Forum Post Flaking Cabinet Edges
...oard (the drawers and doors are formica on solid wood). The raw edge under the counter top and near the floor has begun to disintegrate so whenever you wipe under the edge your sponge (and the floor)...
Forum Post how to remove a broken toilet flange glued to the pipe or wa...
how to remove a broken toilet flange glued to the pipe or waste drain when the floor is concrete? Thank You
Forum Post Problem with hot water baseboard heat
... line somewhere. i refuse to believe that its the pump's fault, because i have lines in the second floor that are 1/2", and those raidators are hot as hell. so how can the pump push water ...
Forum Post receptacles, serial or parallel, what`s the difference?
...s probably not the most expensive consideration. Labor would be. Electricians go faster sitting on the floor than they do on a ladder....
Forum Post 96 grand am gt hydraulic clutch issue
over the course of 2 days the clutch began sticking to the floor, eventually not coming up at all. at that point, the car became stuck in gear and had to be shut off in order to disengage gear. the ...
Forum Post My 3521 & 521 is maintained regularly either by the dealer t...
...that it would be ready to go at the first time we needed it, we noted that the gas all leaked out to the floor of our cement garage floor. This happened more than twice and our handy man could not sto...
Forum Post Bathroom sink drain measurements
Hi I was wondering what height of the floor should the stub for the bathroom sinks drain come out of the wall?
Forum Post Tried everything and bathtub still has odor
Stinking bathtub on 2nd floor. Checked plumbing throughout house, everything has a p-trap, no leaks, cracks, no clogs etc and especially no smell other than tub. Replaced entire plumbing system for t...
Forum Post tile adhesive on wood
...ble to broadly put tile adhesive on wood and periodically expect the tile to last awhile? It shall be a floor tile, with only little traffic....
Forum Post Cathedral Ceiling - Beam Span
...reated pine - The ridge beam will be supported by vertical columns that continue all the way to the sub floor system Again, question is how large do I need to make the build-up the ridge beam? Are...
Forum Post landscape a flat yard for drainage
...think what is happening is the water runs toward the warm house foundation, down underneath the basement floor, and if it rains long enough, the pressure from the water forces it through cracks in the...
Forum Post in what part of the door i find the actuator
...U DONE IF ANY.HAVE YOU EVER REMODELED A BATH ROOM.PET URINE QUESTION DOES NOT MAKE SINCE.I HAVE REPLACED FLOORING IN A 14X70 MOBILE HOME 16X80 INCLUDING REMODELING BATH ROOM AND KITCHEN.CHANGED FLOOR...
Forum Post Repairing a car jack that won't jack
if its a hydraulic it could be low on fluid. What type of jack is it, bottle? or floor? or?
Forum Post Modular Shed
...uld suggest simply building some 4X8 foot panels. I would cover 3 of them with 3/4 inch plywood for the floor, and the rest with OSB or T111, depending on what your HOA allows. I would put a door in...
Forum Post Can a woman handle a drum sander?
a drum sander will be fine. its the orbital floor sanders that are a challenge for anyone.
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