Homeowner Forum / Repair / February 2008

Question:
Has anyone ran into any problems with this type of flooring?
I installed it in my kitchen as per the installations guides and now
the flooring cracks like crazy the first time I walk on it in the

Here's what I'd like to do:
Run well water through a geothermal heat exchanger and then discharge the
same water into the yard and eventually into a pond.
I prefer not to go underground and below frost depth with discharge pipe.

The fluorescent shop light in my garage (2 bulbs) stopped turning on
via the pull-chain. For a time, the bulbs would light if I twisted
them a bit, but then that stopped too. I removed one of the starters,
thinking it might need replacing, and discovered that as I removed it

The people we chose our range hood from (a minor miracle in and of
itself as we literally wanted something impressionist inspired) also
do other metal work - and said they'd detail our dishwasher for us,
too. Have you ever heard of such a thing? I'm amazed and pleased, but

Hi, I have 4 audio cables entering the wall of my house through a hole
that is missing its wallplate/faceplate. These cables go to speakers
around the house. Because of this, during winter, cold air comes
through this hole. Is there some kind of faceplate that can allow

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Still can't figure out how he got in.
I had to chase it with a blanked until it got too tired to fly.
I then threw it outside.
It made a vibrating sound when I had the blanket over it.

I have two 75 gallon(US) electric hot water tanks plumbed in parallel.
House is new - we moved in 16 months ago and starting about 3 weeks ago
there has been a shortage of hot water. We are running out of hot water  
sooner than we used to with similar use patterns. Water temp is ...

I am planning to buy a house. Hill country, Austin TX. The house was
built in 1978, 3BR, 1800 sq feet, 2 stories. The soil is rather
"rocky" there. As I saw a couple of diagonal crack coming from the
windows I contracted a foundation inspector to check up the slab

I need to replace the lever(over flow plate)
http://www.hometips.com/content/popups_intro.html
that allows the tub to drain,its wore out.
I bought the replacement at a big box store, there are two screws that hold

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I've put up a web page with photos taken during installation of a
pair of passive solar heating panels at
  http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/SC_Madison/
These two panels use neither fuel nor electricity, and keep the

if you take two tubes out of a four tube fixture, is there any current
flowing through the unused ballast?  (assume two ballasts, one for each
pair of tubes.)  Any downside to doing so?  I'd only like to leave this
like this for a week or so until I can wire up two switches.