Homeowner Forum / Repair / February 2007

I have a gas outdoor grill hooked to my home gas line here in Southern
California.
This winter my grill is not heating near enough. I can cook on it but
takes some time.

when installing a toilet on slab,bottom floor, how deep does the hole
have to be?

Hello, all,
I have baseboard radiators in my house (Gas/HW heating).  My toddler
is constantly popping them off by crashing cars, etc into them.   (The
covers look exactly like the "Ugly Heaters" images on this website's

I have a Kenmore electric oven and on both the bake/broil switch and
the thermostat is the word "Broil".
But isn't the broil setting on the thermostat unnecessary?  Regardless
of brand?  That is, the broiler heating element gets full power all

I am in the process of purchasing a home and have received a water
quality test result showing a colliform of 9 and e. coli of 0. The
home currently has a water softener. I have a few questions based upon
some research and assumptions:

I posted a question a couple weeks ago in ragards to a repair I
recently made on my Radarange. There was quite a bit of discussion on
the safety of these old appliances. Today I'm posting pics of some
more "relics" I somehow manage to keep running in my home. Y'all can

I am working on buying a fixer upper house.  The more I read and know
I am thinking of changing out all the pipes to PEX manifold system.
In the course of fixing, changing, repairing I will be completely re-
doing the kitchen, both existing bathrooms and adding a third.  I have

Last night I was installing a new gas stove and I also had purchased a
new flex gas line. But when I tried to hook it up, the stove had a 1/2
inch female thread, and the gas line I purchased was 3/4. I did not
have any fittings, so I reused the flex line that was on the old

Have to replace the magnetic strips that are on our shower door enclosure,
and have the following two questions, please:
a.  The enclosure is pretty old, and all the replacement strips I've been
able to find in our local shower and glass type places are too wide.

With all the recent press about the bump key, and having seen a bit of
a show called Catching A Thief, I'm interested in putting in a home
security system.
Should I have a pro do it or can I DIM(yself).  I was an audiophile at

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Can we find an explanation of the great universe? Is there any
convincing interpretation of the secret of existence? We realize that
no family can function properly without a responsible head, that no

Three years ago, I have bought the one just like the one below but
mine is with the filter in the front compartment.  I really loves it.
I used it filtered water for rinsing everything I eat and in cooking
too.

We are redoing our Kitchen and I would like to move the fridge to a
different location.
This would put the fridge in front of a forced hot water floor radiator.
It seems like it would not be a good idea to be pumping hot air into the

My front entry consisted of three concrete steps onto a landing. The whole
business is about 3' high with the landing about 4' x 4'. I like to extend
the existing staircase horizontally form an existing width of 4' to 8'. I
could pour the new concrete to match but that's a lot of ...

I have some very basic questions about building outside steps, using stone
materials, either river rock or some type of slab stone.
These steps would be about  18 feet long, with a rise of approx   10 feet.
These are very approx figures, and are included just to give a perspective