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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...

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...

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...

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...

My toilet started having two problems a couple months ago, which are probably related to each other. One, the tank is not refilling consistently. Sometimes after flushing, it just sits there. It will refill eventually, but nothing I try in terms of manipulating the levers inside the tank help...

Hello, We have a fridge with French doors, with a freezer on the bottom, also with French doors and with 3 shelves on each side. This one, to be exact...

Hello, I have an arch kitchen faucet from Derengge (an amazon seller from China) with an inner hose that you can pull out e,g, to wash the sink. One time when pulling out the hose recently, a plastic cylinder that was inside the main arch came out too. It can be pushed back up inside and falls...

Hello, We live in an apartment in a city setting. Today my wife and saw a mouse run across the floor and under the couch. I wasn't able to find the mouse later, or any obvious hole or droppings, but clearly we have mice. I'd appreciate suggestions for getting rid of mice, preferably in...

Hello, We have an ADT security box that's set up to beep when the front door is opened, but it's not connected to an actual phone line. In fact, there is no landline, and we are not subscribed to ADT security. This was fine for many years, but then a couple weeks ago, the ADT box started...

Hello, I have a hole in a window screen, and bugs are flying in. The window is ~27x22 inches, pretty standard size. The screen is a wire mesh, I don't know what material. The hole isn't very big, like 1 square inch. Is this easy to repair, or is it better to replace the screen? For...

Hello, When running the shower at home, the pipes make a loud knocking noise (water hammer). When the water is set to bathtub (pouring from the faucet below the shower), there is no noise. The knocking also depends on the setting on the shower head. The pipes knock if the shower is set to...

The front door to the apartment that my wife and I own has suddenly started peeling open. I think this just happened today, and the seam has come off about half-way down its height. This might sound a little insane, and it looks pretty insane in fact. See the attached photos. There is a...

Hi, I'm looking for a fireproof safe for my home. It should be big enough to fit a few laptops, some camera equipment included several cameras and lenses, and other small valuables. If it's also theft-proof, that would be good, although I'm sure what that entails. Can you recommend brands...

I have a Keystone ceiling light fixture that uses two concentric circular fluorescent bulbs. For a number of years it worked fine, but a year ago both light bulbs burned out. I replaced the bulbs, but recently the fixture started having problems again, namely it refused to turn on when the...