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I have a couple outdoor ceiling fans on my deck. I put them up several years back and haven't had much problem with them https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2739332356102778&id=100000781212963 Took the blades off for the winter. Just recently I had some deck repair done to an upper...

I picked up one in a pawn shop for cheap. I was thinking it would look good on my deck with some candles in it, until they explained what it was. now I'm wondering about having it in the house, but have some questions. would there be much heat, or is it just for decoration? I'm thinking a...

I've been fooling with rain harvesting the last few years and have a few extra containers. I want to play with an outdoor shower next. I have the container (55gal plastic drum) finishing up the stand to hold it above the shower and about have the fittings to collect the water, but having some...

just an idea i've had for a while. i have a 3/4" piece of axel shaft bent into a candy cane shape with a couple of smaller pieces welded to it. i mean to put in in the ground by my back door to lock my motorcycle up when i don't feel like putting it in the garage and/or i know i'll be right back...

here in the next few months i mean to pick up a decent backup generator. i've been looking at my house and thinking i have a good place to use it. under the deck (about 4' high) and not too far from the back door, but i think far enough away to not worry about fumes. i'm thinking it would also...

let me say i'm not a chef. the most i'd probaly get out of it is making it easier to boil hotdogs. anyway. i need to do some work in my bathroom. depending on what i do and how, i'll be able to add one while i do the work (or have it done more likely). if you were able to look through my...

not really an appliance problem as much as meddling in other households. i'm thinking about buying a smallish apartment size 2nd refrigerator/freezer to put in my mud room. part as extra freezer storage (the one i'm looking at has a separate freezer door), part because just out side the door...

i have a deck around part of my garage that's about 12' off the ground. for a couple of other reasons i don't let people up there (i took the outside stairs down not long after i moved in), but i've started working on it (the other post i just started), and it's something i've always...

i have an upper deck around part of my garage i want to work on. to start i want to add some of those simpson strong ties attatched with deck screws because it's nailed together and some of the nials have worked out some, enough that i don't like that situation on a deck sitting so high. but...

i wasn't sure if this should have been asked in the electrical or walls and ceiling section, so this is the happy medium. i've been thinking about it lately since i found a big picture frame. just wondering if anyones tried it. (ignore the price, got it at a half off sale) the thing...

i kinda stumbled across this tree while i was looking for ideas for what to do with some big pots i lucked across. a small tree that grows 5 fruits. plums, peaches, nectarines and a couple others. sounds really interesting, but since i've never heard of such a thing, i don't anything about...

one of my hobbies is fooling with bicycles. one i'm working on now is a cargo type bike that will have about a 2'x3' flatbed like area on it. even though i'll probaly very seldom use it, let alone choose a rainy day to use it, i still want to use something that will hold up to some exposure...

i planted some small fruit trees last fall and a couple are trying to bear fruit already. one is a pear tree that surprised me with 5 pears growing already. it's so small though i think the pears are going to break the branches they're on. should i go ahead and pull them off? maybe let it get...

will it still seep out if there is only gravity pressure from a water tank? i played with a rain gathering system this past summer and about the end of oct. i opened the drains so it wouldn't collect water. i was afraid of something freezing and bursting. right after i got a couple of...

i put some outdoor ceiling fans on my deck last year, but they didn't come with light kits. the light kits seem kinda costly. i lucked into one at a thrift store that's working fine, and looking at a couple at a local hardware store but they say damp rated. the fans are fully exposed to...

i'm kind of repurposing a ceiling light that uses 5 candleabra type bulbs. i've closing in on finishing and just realised i've forgoten what the recommended max wattage was. i brought 40 watt bulbs but then thought 5 bulbs together might add up. i've had it on without problems, but i was just...

i'm not sure what section this would go in, or if it's a diy subject at all, but i need to start asking somewhere. i'll add some pics in a day or so. my home computer is down. since i moved here about 3 years back there's been a big dead oak tree in the yard next door. huge, dead top to...

can i just wire them in parallel so either will turn on the lights? to explain, my second bedroom is intentionally dark (second shift worker. the compleatly dark room lets me sleep a little later). today i played with a motion sensor like what would replace a wall switch, only it's mounted...

compleat left field idea i got while i was digging out dirt for a pond. while i was piling up the dirt for some reason i kinda wished i had stuck a dogloo i have under it. i'm thinking natural insulation. in fact, i have two dogloos (got them cheap and was or still am considering having...

i lost my install manual and don't know if they need to be specificly wired in series or parallel from the transformer, or if it matters. i got a good deal on these deck speaker/light setups last year. i didn't have electric out on the deck at the time so i just hooked up the speakers. now...