Homeowner Forum / Repair / October 2008

My home backs up against a 200'-wide high-voltage power line easement. After
Ike, looking across this field, I can see maybe thirty fences knocked down
by the high winds. Every one of these downed fences was erected using wooden
posts.

Success.
Well Home Depot has nothing in its webpage under motor brush or brush
motor, and under brush, it has 52 brushes, but all for painting and so
forth.  It also has nothing at the local store, even in the area with

"[LONGMONT, Colo] A Longmont couple has turned the legal tables on their
homeowners' association - suing it not for being too overbearing with rules
enforcement but for being too lax. [Plaintiffs] complain in their suit that
houses around them feature architectural ...

My girlfriend bought a below the counter Kohler sink - I believe they
call them a vessel sink, which has no overflow on it. The issue is
slow drainage associated with it. It does have venting, proper P trap,
etc.installed.

A building I'm working at has some brick lights - j-boxes recessed into a
wall, and a cover plate on them - that illuminate walkways. The owners
have changed the incandescent bulbs to fluorescent.
I saw a note on the cover of a light that said the tested voltage was 130V.

After IKE I have to have my roof shingled and I am wondering is there a
product I can have put down on the older shingles then put the new shingles
on top  to help reflex the heat during the summer?

My street was cut from the side of a hill, so my back yard is level
for about 20 yards, then shoots up at about 30-45 degrees well into my
backyard neighbor's yard. I am putting a retaining wall into the slope
to have a pond, half walled by the retaining wall and half walled by

In the past few years, we've accumulated five oil-filled radiators to
heat our very small house. The alternative is a gas "furnace" that was
installed when the house was built over fifty years ago. HUGE money
waster!

I've been reading up on pruning a bit.
I've learned that you can prune off a, I'll call it
a "side branch", right close to where it branches
off from it's "parent" branch, just as long as

how do the spec-s of an air impact wrench relate to the air
compressor?
i need to loosen a crankshaft pulley bolt that is torqued at 134 ft-
lb. on a 1998 honda civic LX.   i have a sears craftsman 1.5hp 4-

Bought a house with ceiling fans.  All work, but some are a little
noisy.  Are there places to lube them?  Some meay date to 1991.
Lou

I plan on installing a new telephone demarcation box on the inside wall of
my garage near where 2 pairs of wires come out of a conduit. The existing
demarc box is old, ugly, and accessible from the outside where it could
easily be opened and the wires cut. I'm thinking in terms of ...

I need to do an insulation retrofit on my house. I'm a little
uncertain about what I'm doing; I thought I would run my ideas past
this group.
So: the lower floor of my house is partially below-grade. The exterior

A guy walks into a party, and asks a woman "Would you have sex with me for a
million dollars?" She says sure. And of course he doesn't have a million
dollars. But the decision is made, they are going to get it on. Now, it's
just about deciding how much is the price.

I'm thinking of  going to solar to offset high PG&E cost.  We went to home show and talked to a few solar contractors . But I would like to hear from people that actually have solar. I just know the basic and the amount of panels they can install has a lot to do with your savings ...