Homeowner Forum / General / September 2003

I was offered to build a new home from a developer who is not very
large in my area for 350,000 while similar house in that area from big
builders are around 400,000+.
I still have doubt about signing the purchase agreement becaause of

We have berber carpet which has been glued down in all three levels of
our townhouse.  We would like to replace the carpet on the upper two
stories with better quality carpet which is tacked down normally.
When we remove a section of the glued down carpet.  Part of the pad

For an article for the Los Angeles Times real estate section, I would
like to hear from Californians who had trouble moving into a house
they had bought because the sellers refused to move out or because of
other legal problems.

Question.  I just had as subpanel installed.  Inspected it and notice that
all of the feeds are through conduit.  But one is romex.  The circuit wires
seem on the short side.  I am wondering if I were to want to change out the
subpanel at a later date and the wires were not long ...

Looking for any comments on the value of the Oreck XL vacuum cleaners.
Thank you

One of the electrical outlets (115V) in our kitchen does not work due
to overloading.  Power failure occurred immediately after a 1000 watt
microwave oven and another heating oven were powered on at the same
time from one receptacle.  I went down to the basement thinking that

Just did a remodel and have been wiring up plugs and switches.  Noticed in a
couple of the receptacle boxes there are nicked THHNWires.  In one case, a
Neutral and in the other case a Hot.  In both scenerios, it is nicked about
3" or so after it enters to box.  One one case it is ...

Ive just bought a 10x10 Princeton shed. Im a first-time home owner and
this is my first project. The shed looks pretty easy to setup, but Ive
never done anything like this before, so please forgive my ignorance.
1.) I live in the South, so I assume that a concrete foundation is the

I am a tightwad.
I have a beautiful 3/4 pail of joint compound.
The only problem is that it is about 10 years old.
There were about 2 inches of clear liquid on top of the gray stuff.

Two years ago, we resurfaced our pool deck using a stamped concrete
overlay.  We were very satisfied with the final result, but we have had
two small areas of delamination that occured during the first New
England winter.

Just finished a remodel and hung a house full of drywall and skim coated
everything.  The hardwood guys broke off some sections of the skim coated
surface when undercutting some of the jams.  Can I just fill those without
the use of tape?

How do you measure windows for window treatments like shades, drapes,
curtains, blinds, et al

Direct questions are listed at the bottom of this post...
"The rambler" eheh
If there are more appropriate forums to be posting these questions
please steer me toward them.

I'm trying to get reviews for top loaders and not finding much or what
I like on line so far.  Any good sources that are free on line?  I
know Consumer Reports has a website but they want to charge for the
info.   So far I'm considering whirlpool and maytag but I believe I

I have an interesting dilema. I am selling a rental condo myself and have
three buyers who are willing to pay my asking price. I am convinced the
asking price is a fair one, therefore I am not looking to engage in an
auction (I.E. encouraging the buyers to bid up the price). I must ...