Homeowner Forum / Repair / February 2008

I have a base-level 3.5 HP Briggs & Stratton engine that's about 6
years old.  It's a throttle-free design with a primer bulb.  Lately,
after I get it started, it goes in to a rhythm of racing and dropping
off about every second.  This started rather suddenly.  The plug is

I have seen toilets that are mounted to a wall rather than being mounted to
the floor.
It seems to me that this would make the job of mopping the bathroom a whole
lot easier, but make the rough in a little more complex.

I have a 31-ton hydraulic log splitter powered by an 8 HP Briggs & Stratton
gasoline engine. It's about 7 years old and we split about four cords a
year.
Several weeks ago, it wouldn't start. I changed the oil and  replaced the

My well water pumps start up with a "bang" about 8 out of 10 times.
Before I go replacing things willy-nilly I thought I would ask
around.
The baldder in my holding tank in not leaking, it hold it's pressure

I have some noise problems at my place and was reading about pink
noise and downlaoded a 5 minute sample of it and play it with my Mp3
player and it works very very welll, it blockes out all the outside
noise perfectly and it does not really annoy me at all, mos tof the

Another quantry in my 80 year old house.   2 of my rooms were left in
their original plaster state with many crack repairs having been done
over the years.  They are also uninsulated to the exterior...I am
itching to either rip out the plaster, insulate and drywall.  I know

I have a furnace blower I want to use as a shop exhaust fan.  It's a
GE ECM motor meaning it has electronic controls mounted on the motor,
however, you can remove the control module and behind it are three
wires going to the motor, black, blue, red.  There are no other wires

We've been settled in fairly well now 5 months after our return from Sasebo
Japan, and now are getting 2 pets.  The local rescue pet society has a
lovely cat and a perfect for us beagle.
Nothing special needed for the cat except later we might want to build a

I had to repair some fencing awhile back due to a big wind storm. I
needed to to replace some screws so I bought some Hillman PowerPro 8x2
Bronze Ceramic coated screws. I put them in last november and now have
to do some final adjustments on the fence. I had to pull the new ...

Need a wee bit of advice - I just installed a bunch of new-construction
IC-rated 4" recessed fixtures.  Drywall and insulation aren't up yet,
but I powered up the circuit to show my wife how they'd look and to get
her opinion on the different baffles/trims.  I had one each white, ...

My 9-year old dishwasher (GE GSD2220Z02FB) is not cleaning the dishes
properly. I noticed that the
water level is quite low during the wash cycle and water just bubbles
out instead of being forced out at

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I have a basement wall that's a few inches from my water heater and
also quite near my furnace.  I want to insulate that wall and I can't
do it from the other side.
There isn't room to put studs and fiberglass insulation and then cover

Our drain plug in our main bathroom tub is corroding and is not making a
tight seal, as a result, it will not hold water for very long, it slowly
leaks out.  The plug is a turn and pull/push setup.
My question, can this metal drain, the ring the plug sits into, be removed

I've had a fluid master type toilet valve for 4-5 years with no
problems until recently when it would shut off and the pipes would
rattle from the water hammer effect.  (This is the type where the
float rides up and down on a shaft, as opposed to the ball float on an