Homeowner Forum / Repair / February 2008

This fall we finished up a shop that is about 200 feet away from our
house, a slight down grade.  We also tapped the main water line (from
our well) and T-d it off to install an outside freezeless water hydrant
by the shop.  It is about 75 feet from where it was t'd to the ...

We just moved into a new home.  I don't think the previous owners ever
cleaned the glass shower doors.  Our shower doors seems to be etched
with hard water stains. Nothing I have tried will remove them. Even
CLR does not remove them. Any suggestions?  Thanks!

I am cutting rafters for a shed roof.  The rafters will be 16o.c 2x6.
The rise is 3:12 (or 3 inches for each 12 inchs of run)
My question concerns the birdsmouth cut.  If I cut a 1 and 1/2 inch
heel cut and a 3 and 1/2 inch seat cut, I am in compliance with the

I bought an 8-yr old house 2 1/2 years ago that has a well and a sump pump
that runs alot when it rains alot.  I decided to buy a generator and had an
electrician install a 10-circuit panel transfer switch.
Yesterday we had a 4-hour power outage.  After about 3 hours, just before

My house was built in '72 (3 br, 2 1/2 bath).  The original owner
added a 2 story addition (top part was addition to the master
bedroom).  Unfortunately, he didn't put in a new furnace to take care
of the extra sq. footage.  When we bought the house in '04, we put in

http://magicjack.com/site/index.html
After seeing the link Mark Loyd posted, I think I am going to buy one
of these at Best Buy tomorrow.
I was also thinking outloud how I might get this thing to work without

We hauled out my old stackabe/portable Sears washer, model C1102250081 when
having washer problems; put on a load and it worked fine.  Put on the 2nd
load and nothing... no water, no noise.  My husband played around with it,
and found that the wash cycle (or rather all 4 wash ...

I am a novice DIYer who is renovating  a second floor bathroom.I took
a wall out and extended my bathroom into an adjoining closet.There is
now a 4inch gap between the drywall of my bathroom and the drywall of
the closet where the old wall used to be. The gap is also in the

With the start of gardening season it seems that no one sells peat humus
anymore. Wal-mart. home depot, lowes, my local nurseries, no body has it any
more. Any ideas on why they put an end to the best thing you could put in
your garden?

Hi, I have a 65 year old house... We have a patio and connected to the
patio is a deck. We are seeing a lot of water leaking into the patio---
looks like it is coming from under the door. Door has been caulked .
On top of the patio we have a flat roof-  I have seen water staying in

My cheap vinyl bathtub has become brittle over time and now has
several places where it has actually failed and has cracks that would
yu would think would cause the tub to leak.  It does not leak however
and I'm guessing that it it actually a vinyl sandwich with closed cell

I need ideas on how to go about making this cottage I am living in
year round winter ready. During the winter the floors get very cold
and pipes often freeze.
The old part of the cottage is about 70 years old. It is sitting on

One of my metal stock tanks sprung a leak, and of course it's near the
bottom.  Normally in warm weather I'll empty it, clean the spot and
use JbWeld.  If the hole is over 1/16" I usually use the jbweld and
glue in a short machine screw (not a sheet metal screw that animals

While flushing the toilet earlier this evening, I think 2 other people in
the house turned on the water, which messed up my toilet's flush.  The
water went down a lot of slowly than usual.
Now I just tried flushing it, and the water went up near the top of the

I've bought two unfinished oak veneer interior doors (Jeld-Wen).
Neither stained well; splotches around the rail/stile glue lines with
some extending out over the face.
Is there something to clean these doors with prior to staining? I