Homeowner Forum / Repair / June 2006

My old flooring has different colors of wood and the filler is coming up
different shades on the wood when I stain it. What can I do to make the
filler the same color as each piece of the wood as I stain it?
Carol S.

I've had this Homelite Bandit sx-135 for years. Generally a good
little machine ...
Fired it up today, started normally. Ran OK for maybe 2 minutes,
then wouldn't take gas, finally died. Added lots of gas. Same result.

Let me start by saying that I am a newbie at the whole tiling thing.  I
just finished tiling my first wall, and grouted yesterday.  It turns
out that the guy in the tile shop put the wrong shade of grey on our
order, and now I'm stuck with light grey grout lines instead of a

I got a quote for a nw heating system tha is reasonable; $5500 for an
new Wheil McClean oiler plus asbestos removal.  
The old boiler is a coal converted burnham. The advantage of the old
system is that it keeps the cellar warm in the winter and my wife does

Folks, I drifted by my mom's house (she's 86) a few days ago and she
had been busily sweeping water out the backdoor for about an hour.
The icemaker line sprung a pinhole leak about 2 inches above the floor
behind the refrigerator.

I have wood floors. I like to walk around the house in socks or bare feet. I vacuum these floors
weekly and polish then with Murphy's.
However, after a single day, my white socks are dirty. I even tried washing these floors twice in a
single day. It just seems that my socks still ...

Recently got estimate for boiler replacement:
2 Zoned  Heating
Wheil McLean Boiler (Spelling?) with tankless hot water
Remove Old Boiler and Properly Remove Asbestos on old Boiler

I have a junction box on the outside of a drywall, and I want to bring some
wires to the inside of the wall and route it elsewhere.
If I punch out the bottom hole in the junction box and and also drill a hole
in the drywall, I can bring the wires through to the inside. But I was ...

I recently had to replace a large 85 gallon electric water heater.
The orginal one, circa 1982 was being used on an off peak electric
meter. The lower element was wired to the off peak circuit, activated
from 11:00 PM to 6:00 AM by the meter. The top element cycled as usual

I have some large solid oak doors as the entrance door to my property.
The doors are therefore open to the elements and they get a lot of
sunlight.
Because of the amount of sunlight, the old protective coating began

I have a wrap-around porch with cedar deck boards.
The previous owner painted the deck boards with a latex paint.
Most of the paint is in good shape, but there is a high-traffic
sun-and-rain-exposed section, about 200 square feet, that is peeling

My house is smaller then the rest on our street and the previous owner was
elderly so the height of the countertops seems to be a few inches shorter
then most. Right now I'm putting down tile on the floor so after the
subfloor and tile is down, the countertop height is even lower ...

has anyone purchased a Ventless Combo Washer Dryer?
at least LG (Tromm) and Asko makes them, they are claimed to save electric use also
due to the fact they are ventless (thus no removal of indoor air where the HVAC system
has to work harder)

Does the national electric code say whether electrical wires can be
multi-strands?

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