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One problem I see with the screw eye in the dormer idea is that if you have enough slack on the safety line to reach the peak, you have almost enough to hit the ground if you slip.... Better to anchor your safety lines up and over the top I'd think. Wait for those with more experience in high...

Or you could pay them for an hour...

I had one of those electronic hobby kits when I was a kid. Building electro magnets and radios etc. one day I found a bunch of gutter spikes and lamp cord and reasoned that if a small nail wound and connected to a d cell was fun then these treasures wound in lamp cord an plugged into the wall...

Since you've pretty much destroyed it anyway, how about using a recip saw to cut it the rest of the way off?

Whoops. Sorry. Pain to read the date on my phone some times.

I would look under it to make sure that some prior idiot didn't vent the bath into that space or perhaps use pot lights that are not sealed for attic use. If the rest of it is so well put together I am suspicious of this change.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steaks to cook. Attributed to Julia Child

Let's wait for the op to tell us what his configuration is. Might be that nothing will speed it up. Might have never been fast enough. To the OP. Give us more info. Tell us what you have. Tell us when it got bad. Then we can stop guessing and help you.

Are you simply looking to maximize the use of truck space in a sort of OCD kind of way or are you looking at long term storage? If the latter, I prefer rubbermaid branded storage containers ( the sterlite ones at home depot are crap if anything hits the corners). The common box sizes at the...

The gfci will help protect the user at the outlet by tripping if there is a ground fault. Normally the path of least resistance would be the ground conductor back to a water pipe or ground electrode and dissipates to earth. In the absence of a ground wire, the current would go thru you to earth...

That third prong is an equipment or safety ground. It's purpose is to provide electricity an alternate path to ground besides thru you in the event that you are handling some appliance that suffers a fault. You should invest in an inexpensive non contact voltage tester and identify the hot wire...

Lol. No evidence that way

Laser pointer! Also near a sunny window, the reflection off my phone's screen

Hungry rotweiler?

Hmm 3.68 just outside Chicago, rather higher in the city itself.

Honestly, I would cut it back to undamaged material at a joist and patch in a new sheet of drywall. You'll be much happier in the long run because no matter how well you feather the little repairs, YOU'LL see them all the time. lol

That's all over my house as well. 1956 Chicago. It's very hard and turns to sand when wet. Seems like an early cement board skimmed with plaster. It's installed on wood furring on the brick exterior walls and on the studs on the interior. It appears to be in 2 foot wide sheets. I hang pictures...

Have you been lucky enough to be able to time it so you can actually touch the various pipes while the knocking is going on to see if it's a particular line?

You expressed a plan to patch the hole where the existing fixture is/was. You cannot bury that box if there are any live circuits running thru it. As far as the cans go... I actually like track lighting. If it were me, I would probably put a new track up with more stylish exposed lamp heads on...

I have one of those by zircon and it alerts if you're within several feet sometimes with drywall. In my living room I have plaster and metal mesh lath and the blasted thing alerts on every inch of those walls. If the line to that outlet runs horizontally, it will typically be drilled thru the...