Recent content by jacobc

Thank you all very much. Solved. I think the main issue was actually my app needed updated. In the updated app, I can set the doorbell to ring the chime, notify the phone, or both, and everything works as it should.

I have a Ring doorbell+camera. When someone rings the doorbell, it sends a notification to my phone through the app, but it doesn't actually make a doorbell noise. If I don't have my phone on me, I don't hear anything. Is this normal, or a bug? What do you need to do to make the Ring actually...

We have a house with 3 bathrooms, 2 on one floor and 1 on another. Recently toilets and sinks in all of the bathrooms have started making a gurgling noise. It's not just a toilet that's being flushed, sometimes it's a toilet not in use or a sink, even a sink with no water running. What does this...

Thank you, we'll consider that. Are there any home solutions that don't involve poisons? Thanks again.

We have an ant infestation. Not carpenter ants, just regular small ones. Looking for a way to get rid of them and prevent them from coming back, without the use of toxic chemicals if at all possible. Any suggestions would be appreciated. The house has hardwood floors, in case that matters.

I have a Wolf gas range, model GR304. The knobs that adjust the flame on the stove often don't stop where I set them but keep turning on their own, towards the low flame end. They do this whether I'm lowering the flame (so they turn further in the same direction) or increasing the flame (they...

It turned out to be ridiculously simple: I just needed to change the batteries (4 AA) in the fireplace receiver. To be clear, I had changed the batteries already, but it seems whatever charge the batteries I had put in contained was enough to communicate with the remote but not enough to...

I was able to fix this. Thank you.

The switch is on, of course. I don't see a spark on the pilot assembly.

I'm not sure if this is the right category for this post, but other fireplace-related posts seem to be in the general category. I have a Valor Portrait gas fireplace (https://www.valorfireplaces.com/media/Portrait/English/530-IN-IP.pdf). It comes with a remote that's supposed to be able to start...

Thanks for the replies. My first question is, do those cables (the non-coax ones) indeed look like ethernet cables, and not something else? Second, this sounds a bit stupid, but the ethernet cables coming out of walls in various rooms are blue, and these are gray, so how can they be the same...

My family and I recently bought and moved into a house that seems to be set up to have wired ethernet in most rooms. The walls in many rooms of the house have ethernet cables sticking out (they are missing the RJ45 connectors but are clearly ethernet cables). However, we have no idea where the...

Well, things have turned out to be more complicated. I replaced the fill valve. I'm confident I did it right, since the toilet is flushing and refilling, and there is no leak. But the same hammering noise starts when the toilet starts refilling after flushing. Turning on the cold water stops it...

I looked up "chattering valve" and did the suggested diagnostic test, and you were absolutely right, that's the cause. I'm very impressed and grateful for your help.

Yes, the float seems to operating. The hammer is coming from inside the wall.