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I am replacing the roof on my side patio. Right now I'm putting up new wood. I've got an odd bit where the house roof intersects the patio roof, and I'm wondering how y'all would do this? As always, I have no idea what the right questions to ask are, or what options sound good but lead to...

I am looking at new exterior doors. The house is in SW Arizona, and the front door faces west with no overhang - so it gets hit with the full afternoon sun all summer long. I've been advised to go with fiberglas. My biggest concern is changing the color of the door down the road. Either because...

I've attached a PDF image of a diagram of my house, which is in SW Arizona. The problem is the very front room, which is actually an enclosed garage. The house was like this when I bought it almost 20 years ago. The AC unit is located at the very back of the house - it's a single package unit...

We chose a nice tile for our shower. It has a burlap bag kind of texture. No one at the hardware store mentioned that a smooth tile would work and clean better in the shower!! Anyways, it's installed. We have very hard water here, and we're concerned about mineral deposits building up in the...

My son-in-law had a foul smell coming up behind his kitchen sink. We opened up the wall and I shot a picture looking up. The cast iron vent line went up to just below the window and then elbowed to the right into galvanized. The pipe was rotted on both ends of the elbow. :hide: The house is...

I'm replacing the existing single-handle shower valve with a new Delta valve . My dumb question: the valve is encased in a black plastic "box", actually a round thing around the valve body, and extending out over the cartridge. The plastic around the valve body is marked to show you where...

Several years ago, I had to do a bathroom remodel (busted up the concrete foundation to replace the failing cast-iron sewer pipe). We wanted to tile up the walls around the tub/shower, but couldn't afford that right away. I did get the concrete backer board up, but had to settle for a "damp...