Homeowner Forum / Repair / October 2008

I'm installing  a new toilet on a basement floor.  I lined up the
flange slots with the bowl holes and traced around the perimeter of
the toilet.   When dry-fitted It slightly rocks on the concrete floor.
I can remove small amounts of the concrete with a Dremmel tool.  Is

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    I need a little advice on replacing one of our exterior doors.
The door measurement is 31 1/2" x 79" so I'm assuming that the door I
need to order is 32x80? Also the current door is wood, I have another
exterior door which is steel, should I change the wood door to steel

This is an EMERGENCY
I'm at home on my couch
My beer can just sprung a leak.
How can I repair it?

I've stripped two of the screws holding the hard
drive in my laptop (apparently lock-tite'd, from
the crack! noise the other two made when unscrewed
in my best philips screwing technique).  (The chat

Does anyone know why the price of potassium choloride is approx $18/40
lb bag?   I bought it 6 months ago and it was about $8/40 lb bag.
tia,
chris

Well, water heater's bottom (near pilot light) is getting
rusted out, inner "door" is like a quarter eaten away (is
no longer rectangular), is 15 years old.
(Was looking in home-repair book, described how water heater

I don't know if I am asking in the proper group.... but I have an Axion
LCD 8 inch flat screen TV with a card reader. I only use it for watching
TV. What it is.... is that I was watching a TV program & then went out
of the room to get a snack & upon returning back to watch the TV... ...

Exactly what it says.  We bought the house in February.  Fan and light
worked fine.  In the beginning of August, the breaker would trip every
time we turned the switch.  I've taken the light fixture off the fan
to check for a short, nothing visible.  I've taken the fan off the

A question entered my mind as I was sprucing up my utility trailer. I
removed the strap hinges and closure brackets, etc. so I could clean off
the rust, re-paint, etc.
There are lots of mating surfaces where rust was present on both

Does anyone know if there is actually a temperature difference between
a chest freezer and a freezer found on top of a refrigerator? Also, if
so, is there an advantage to getting a chest freezer over a stand up
freezer? We're looking to add freezer space but trying to determine if

We've had our woodstove for about four years now. Late last year, we
started noticing a "plastic" smell when we are using the woodstove. It
seems to be most noticeable when we have a hot fire going. If I damper down
the fire, the smell goes away.

I'm on the tail end of a basement refinishing project and have two
questions:
1. Are pre-finished stair treads (for interior staircase) common and
something I would be able to find easily, or do they typically sell

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