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Hey guys, I'm taking a guess and posting this here rather than in Masonry or Plumbing sections, but feel free to move it if necessary. I want to add grab bars to our tiled shower. However, my stud finder gave me false results (it was sure a stud was there!) and I've drilled my first hole to...

Hey guy, This is the first question of this type I've asked here—so I don't know if it's appropriate, or if you focus more on actually building stuff. So thanks for your indulgence. Our "genuine repro" mid-century coffee table got scratched in our move (thumbnails below). I've used those...

Greetings oh noble saviours of humanity, My wife and I just ordered two “Tannersville” (a.k.a. TFCFL) 48” ceiling fans with LED lights from Wayfair.ca. I’ve done a fair amount of electrical, including ceiling fans, but these have me baffled. The manual (and that’s a great word for it) seems to...

Hey guys, If this belongs in General or some other place, my apologies (and admin, feel free to move it). But you "wall guys" seemed a good place to start. On the view side of our house, we're preparing to: Move an exterior door to the adjacent wall, replacing a door-width window there...

Hey guys, I'm installing a shower wand in our new shower. The rod is in, so that's no problem: However, there are no instructions, and there are a couple of mysterious things about it: There's this brown plug at the end of the hose: With the metal sheathing temporarily pulled away: I...

Hey guys, We've updated our old tub/shower enclosure to a walk-in shower. Unfortunately, the guy who did our tiling drilled the hole for the shower wand on the wrong side (by the door), so we have to fill the 1.25" hole and drill on one the other side. Rather than digging out the whole 8x12"...

Hey guys, On our plumber's advice, I've obtained a replacement for our leaking shower diverter cartridge that I'll replace myself. Thing is, I'm not sure where our house's main water shutoff is. We haven't had the place that long—and unfortunately I wasn't watching when the plumber turned the...

I've been remodeling our house for the last few years, and our garage became a chaotic pile of building materials, tools, supplies, parts, scraps, missing bodies, and so on. It got so bad, I ended up spending almost as much time looking for stuff as using it, and feared for my life a few times...

Hey guys, I can't be the first person who's done this, so I'm sorry if I'm asking something that's been asked (many times?) before. My wife wanted to replace our existing dining room ceiling light—a three-bulb mini-spot, off to the side—with a pendant light directly over the dining table. So...

Hey guys – I'm installing a quartz countertop for our bathroom vanity. I had the countertop made and the openings cut (the sink opening, according to its template). I must now drill 4 holes in the counter's underside for the brackets that came with our ceramic undermount sink. I'll then epoxy...

Hey guys—I don't know if this the particular type of thing you deal with, but thought I'd ask anyway. We have three exterior lights across our lower deck, controlled by switches in three different rooms. They face the pathway that goes around our house and up to the main entrance, so we often...

Hey guys – I've just applied Titebond II to some wood and clamped it. The bottle says it should be clamped for 30 minutes, then allowed to set for 24 hours before it's subjected to stress. Are they just saying that 30 minutes is the minimum time you should clamp anything? Or are they...

Hey guys, We have a teak table my wife's been keeping on our covered patio. Because it'd be exposed to humidity, I treated it with some of this Circa 1850 Tung 'n' Teak Oil: Since the table appeared to be bare (unfinished) wood, I figured this would make it look best, while offering some...

Hey guys, Sorry if this is in the wrong section—if so, feel free to move it. The caulking has split where one of our kitchen counters meets the wall. Unlike the other counters, which are against a tile backsplash, this one's against a painted wall, and I'm wondering what the best way to...

Hope this is the right section for this... If not, feel free to move it. I made a real amateur mistake, caulk-wise. I'm replacing all the baseboards and door trim in our house. I started with a silicone-based caulk. Then a friend pointed out this stuff: "Why mess with silicone when you don't...

Hey guys – A quick (and possibly noob-ish question) for yuz: I'm replacing a bathroom vanity. The cabinet itself is just screwed to the studs, but the one-by-four wood backsplash is cemented to the wall. Is there a way to pry it off without taking out a whole whack of drywall? Maybe some...

Hey guys, I'm putting some quarter-round molding between our "floating" wood floor and the bottoms of our patio doors. Obviously I don't want to go driving nails or brads into the door. What sort of adhesive can I use that'll stick to... Er, what is that door frame, anyway? Vinyl?

Hey guys, I understand how a table saw's riving knife makes cutting safer by holding the cut open behind the blade, preventing the wood from pivoting, contacting the side of the blade and kicking back. However, I don't understand why it has two positions—above the blade, for through...

Hey guys, Now that I have our new floor in, I'm ready to install our new baseboards. The molding I'm using has this profile: (We have some unusually long runs of hardwood, so I've left some expansion gaps a bit wider than usual to be on the safe side. We decided this staggered profile...

Hey guys, Have any of you ever seen brackets like these? They're from a small glass shelf I'm removing in one of our bathrooms. I can't figure out how they're attached. Rather than the usual hex screw underneath, each one has a 1/4" square opening through which I can see two small metal...