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I have a screen door with a sliding track on the bottom (the rolling wheels are at the top). There is a fixed track on the floor and another track mounted on the bottom of the door itself. I remember having some extra parts there, but somehow they got detached and got lost. I need help...

So anyway I was promising everyone that I'd keep you updated on the various threads I opened with questions. I should begin though by thanking you for all your help throughout. You've been a valuable resource. The threads were: http://www.houserepairtalk.com/f45/subfloors-12639/...

Hey, on a different thread, one of you guys was mentioning the apparent poor quality of the plywood used as subfloors in my renovation. For more than a week now, we've been noticing a squeak in select areas (about three total) in the vicinity of the girder that runs through the center of our...

We've got our bath tub mostly installed. The bath tub came with a manual, plus we've read a lot about bath tub installation. Here are a few things that were done for ours that don't match the manual... are these OK or will I have a surprise down the road and swim in my apartment? 1. No mortar...

When renovating a condo and cleaning up debris, is the contractor obligated to clean the debris gathered on the ceiling of the apartment below?

Prior to our condo renovation, we hired a civil engineer to produce plans and submit them to the building department in our town. We signed a contract with our engineer for the plans. The plans were approved by the building department on the condition, among others, that the engineer inspect the...

We're renovating our condominium. My contractor intends to charge us extra for some of the blocking on the walls, because we don't know exactly what is going to go on all the walls. The contractor seems to think we need to know where our heavy paintings or Murphy bed will go, even though we...

Hello, My contractor wants to use steel studs for the wall, all around my apartment. I understand that this means we must decide now where we want to hang things on the wall, so that he can put blocking in the relevant places. I also understand that with wooden studs we don't need the same...

Hey all, We hired a contractor to renovate our condo here in South Westchester NY. We're pretty much gutting the place to get rid of floors and lead paint in the apartment. We try to learn as much as possible to avoid surprises, but we feel that no matter how much we read there's always...