Homeowner Forum / General / October 2004

First, thanks to all who responded to the previous thread in
alt.home.repair - Highly educational.
Here, I add a little data, and correct a few bloopers.
I've just inherited a working 8' wide spa (AKA hot tub), fiberglass body in

We have yellow jackets which have apparently built a nest in the
ground amongst a group of shrubbery and azaleas next to our back door.
I have read other posts on how to rid ourselves of them and have
questions.

My husband and I recently hired Mr. Tony Dillon of Skyview Sunroom and
Renovations Ltd. (Halifax, NS, Canada) to convert an existing porch area in
a sunroom.  We choose Mr. Dillon over another contractor with a very similar
proposal because his company was a member of the Better ...

Location Dallas Texas:
I look in my Sunday paper and notice a leather sofa and loveseat that
appeals to me from Rooms to Go. The add says that next day delivery is
possible so I go to the local store and place an order, pay cash (big

I recently had a copper gutter installed on the front side of my house
but it's not draining properly. I'm sure this is because it needs to
be raised up just a little to create a slight slope toward to the down
spout. The gutter rests on semicircular metal support brackets

I am re-wiring my main bathroom and putting in an exhaust fan unit
too.  The bathroom has always been on a common lighting circuit and
I'm putting it on it's own 20AMP circuit now.  I have a GFCI breaker
installed at the panel (I figure that this is a good thing)?  I have

I am thinking about openning a wall (side of kitchen) and installing a door.
This door would open to the garage and would be  additional door to the
garage. Would this kind of work require a permit from city? I am sure the
contractor would know the correct answer, but just curious ...

I have a new home with an unfinished basement.  A drywaller came and
installed steel studs so that he could put drywall up, as requested, and
then didn't come back.  I am looking to finish the basement myself now, and
must say I hate steel studs! Anyway, I was wondering about ...

My dad was recently approached by a company wanting to purchase his home.
They were in the process of purchasing the house next door to build an
apartment building.  They made him an offer to purchase his home as well to
build a bigger building.

I was moving a phone jack from one location to another.  I have a
bunch of phone wire from the hardware store that I'm going to fish
through the wall and hook up to the existing wire in the attic.
The existing wire doesn't have a black wire, just red green and

Hello google group.  I just bought my first home and I have a few
problems to finish up but I haven't got much of a clue what to do.
Here are the main problems:
1) the claw-tub faucet doesn't turn off despite the nozzle's being

What is the process of torqueing a door frame? How is it done. What tools
are required?
My exterior prehung door is racked by 1/8" throwing the door off and someone
who looked at it told me that it's the settlement of the home against the

I installed a Sears screwdrive garage door opener about 18 months ago and
it's worked great up until last week.  Symptons were that the screw drive
made a lot of noise and failed to pull the door up.  I could push the
'connector car' up and down the track so assumed the internal ...

    I have purchased an old house with hot water radiators. No one had
lived in the house for some time, so it was a little neglected. The
house needed some plaster work, so I removed one of the old radiators.
After the plaster work was fixed, I put the old radiator back on. I

My wife and I have some property that is about 250 miles from our
primary home, we are making the place into a homesite so we may have
our final home there.  Right now we have a 5th wheel trailer with a
pole building built to shelter it and have had power, phone and a