Homeowner Forum / General / June 2006

With personal identification rosters and listings being "lost" or
"misplaced" or, just as  likely, STOLEN, ID theft is on the mind of
every credit-card-holding American these days.  It seems every week we
hear about some big cache of personal data being somehow ... purloined.

When installing the brackets for the curtain
rod, do I need to mail them into studs?  Is
this true in general, that anything I want to
nail into the walls must be nailed onto a

I'd like to use an exhaust fan (fan from a ceiling grille to outside) to
run overnight in the summer, with the windows open, so that my house is cool
in the morning.  I'm not sure how much CFM is needed.  I don't want a big
powerful whole house fan because I'd like it to be quiet. ...

My neighbor recently built what he claimed was a brick wall about 1 ft
from our property line. He then had a truck load of gravel added to the
wall, in effect creating a parking pad off his driveway. He neglected
to get a building permit or to contact zoning. I found out from zoning

More photos at http://www.anykindjob.com/building.html Price: $625,000
CDN (approx. $570,000 USD). Located in downtown Smiths Falls, Ontario,
Canada. 40 mins to Ottawa. Smiths Falls is the chocolate capital of
East Canada and a popular tourist destination. The property is in

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Simply select city and state from the city menu and click search. If
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I live on Long Island and every house has a lawn. All the surrounding houses have lawns. WHen I
bought my house a couple of years ago, I had a lawn but it was spotty. Upon closer inspection, I
noticed a lot of areas where there wasnt grass, but kind of more mulched up leaves ...

I sent $3800 to tile the entry way- kitchen, bathroom 2 1/2 - Am   need
to have the living area tiled an additional $4072 for $509 sq ft on
phoenix is that too high?

I've visited most of the ceiling fan questions and I cannot fix my
problem.
Here's what i am dealing with. I am trying to install a ceiling fan
with a light. My box has 3 wires(ground excluded). Black, red and

I bought mortgage wathdog (http://www.mortgage-watchdog.com).
I found errors on almost every bank statement.
I contacted my bank but they don't want to talk with me.
Are there more people with this problem?

In our house we are almost to the plumbing stage. My question is this:
The bathroom is long and narrow: 6 foot by 11 foot. The door is on one
of the long sides close to the end, and there's a window diagonally
across the rectangle on the other long side. There's really only one

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I'm looking to replace my 12 yr old furnace (came with the house when I
bought it a few years ago) with some decent and am looking for a good
contractor to do the job.  Although no one here can tell me which
contractors are good in my area, perhaps you can help me out.  So far I