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Hi everyone. I just recently refinished the floors in the sunroom and now I'm doing the rest (dining room, living room and a bedroom). I have sanded the floors three times with grit 36 and, while the old polyurethane is gone, the wood looks of uneven color. I know how it is supposed to look...

Hello and thank you for accepting me into this forum. I am going to refinish my hardwood floors. They are between 100 and 120 years old. I just finished the sunroom and the result is spectacular. With the rest of the main floor, though, there are a few challenges. In a remodel done probably in...

Hello everyone, I’ve demolished three arches in my house. Two of them were created by a house remodel in the 1970s. They were small arches in a hallway. For context, my home was built in 1900 as a 1 story cottage. Someone built a 2/3 second story, with a 45° angle roof, which starts tapering...

Hi, I installed a new faucet in my kitchen sink about two years ago. This weekend I noticed that it has a tiny pinhole leak in one of the sides. Curiously, I replaced the previous faucet left by the previous owners which had several such pinhole leaks on exactly the same side of the faucet. Is...

About a month ago I noticed water dripping on the basement floor from under the first floor bathroom. I thought it was the old 1980s toilet’s fault and went ahead and replaced it. I noticed the water dripping again and called a professional to reset the toilet. He confirmed there’s no water...

Hello, My name is Pedro. I just bought a house in need of a lot of fixing. I have been doing projects and so far, so good. I'll be asking questions because the list of projects grows and grows.

Hi. I'm new here. Many thanks for accepting me into this forum. I'm working on a house a just bought. I'm tearing up a wall dividing two bedrooms, but I'm not 100 percent sure it is not a load bearing wall. There's not a wall directly underneath it, and it exists only to separate the two...