Homeowner Forum / Repair / September 2008

Not sure if this is the best newsgroup for this question but...
My wife and I plan to purchase this chest freezer:
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_04616702000P?vName=Appliances&cName=Fre
ezers+%26+Ice+Makers&sName=Chest
I'm assuming it's just a 3 prong plug. So I'm assuming ...

Time to replace the door on my 2-car garage. All I'm seeing for
replacement doors are metal. Does anyone sell wooden garage doors anymore?

i'm repairing an old garage/stable house and making it into a studio.
the roof and foundation seem good but the siding is shot. its old wood
siding approx 6"x1". all the framing is 2x4, 24 on center. the plan is
to reside it and possibly do some sistering on the frame.

i have a flat roof with a torch-down rolled asphalt surface.  it's
been installed for 5+ years and i use that fibered aluminum silver
stuff you find at home depot and lowes to periodically coat it.  the
coating is OK, certainly better than nothing, but i get minor weeping/

I have been trying to get DSL, and they all want to send a kit (assuring me
since I am not a technical person at all) that it's very easy to install by
yourself. Has anyone here done that, and is it easy? I mean, really
easy...like any moron could do it easy? :-)

Hi, getting some conflicting advice from books.
It's on how deep to pour a proper small slab that later will gain a brick
BBQ.
Ground is grey clay, we planned a sand pit to even it, then a 4 inch depth

2 years ago I got a brand new Carrier 10 Seer AC on the roof.
Now, the furnace and evaporator is at the end of its life so it needs to be
replaced.
But I heard that according to the new law since 2006 only 13 Seer and above

How much (approx) would it cost to install a floor drain in an
upstairs laundry room?

I need to replace a short vertical section of cracked 4" cast iron sewer
line.  The section to be replaced is a little less than 4 feet long.  The
top of the cast iron above the connection is already supported so it can't
drop down when I take out the bad section.

How often should they be serviced and can this be done without expert.
THanks

I'm thinking about getting a multi stage or variable speed furnace to go
with my fairly new 10 Seer Carrier condensor.  Will the AC air handler fan
speed be set to a fixed speed because the coil could ice up?  Will I only
get the benefits of multi speed fan for the heating part?  ...

Have a client who wants to run 2 sets of outdoor lights (one low
voltage, the other line voltage) from a single timer. Rather than just
getting the ordinary mechanical timer, I thought it might be nice to get
a simple, reliable electronic timer instead. The advantage would be not ...

like something is settling. I hear it maybe 4 or  5 times a week while
sitting in my living room. There are no visible signs of cracks in my
first floor ceiling but it's still a little disconcerting. Is this
just a normal sound or a precursor to a larger problem developing.

Have any of you found a product that yellow jackets will carry down into
their underground lair which will poison the entire hive - much like ant
bait?  These are between a concrete foundation and block porch so anything
flammable is out of the question.  Anything that I spray at ...

I installed a new Vinyl double hung window.
After i caulked around the window,the next day i noticed residual caulking
smeared past the caulk joint.
I tried to clean it off with a Razor scraper,but the blade kept digging into