Recent content by bealew

Hi, a very large area of our roof leaked several years ago and is now covered with tar. The more that I look at it, the more I hate how bad it looks. It looks like half of the roof is black and the other half is green. The roof is like a fiber material that looks like tin but it's not. Is it...

Yeah it's the threshold, thanks I couldn't remember what it was called. I checked it out and that's exactly what it was, it just needed to be nailed down. Thanks for your help.

In my home there is a wide doorway that leads into a new addition that was built onto the house in the early 90s, here lately I've noticed that the board that runs in the center of the doorway seems to be sticking up noticeably higher than the rest of the floor and the board seems to be a little...

I have heard a few little squeaks in the attic and believe that it may be bats, I don't really think that there are too many, because I haven't heard it very much. But I have heard that it may be hazardous to your health having bats in your home, should I be worried and if so does anyone know...

yeah, I don't really like paneling at all, I would much rather have drywall, this house was built in the 60s, and remodeled in the 80s, so it's really outdated, I want to take out the ceiling tile too, and put up sheet rock and texture it

Thanks everyone for your help, my only problem is the walls are all wood paneling except for the kitchen and bathroom which are a plastic based material, but the ceilings are tile and can be painted

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to reduce or eliminate the smell of cigarette smoke in a house? It would be greatly appreciated, and does anyone know if it is hazardous to a person's health if they live in a house where the previous owner of about 50 years smoked in the house for that...

Yeah I think that there is probably like four or so, it's a rectangle shaped house and this is in the back left corner, I could probably put sister joists on, that's a good idea, thanks. Then I could take up the old plywood that's bad and put down new, and maybe a few posts in the ground to...

I went under and found that it's really bad it's all gone, but the good news is, it's just in that one corner everything else seems solid, I really don't know how it's holding up, there is a very heavy antique phonograph setting right in the corner, but it hasn't fell through.

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it

Hi, a few years ago my grandmother noticed termites in her home, the exterminator got rid of them and it wasn't until about a year later I noticed the floor was rotten in her bedroom closet. The damage runs a little ways out into the bedroom also, I have been underneath to see how bad it was...