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    Bubbling and peeling new bathroom paint

    I've been renovating a bathroom and got to the point of painting the walls. The problem is that on the recent coat the paint was bubbling at several locations (see photos below) and pulling on the bubbles would simply peel off the paint. I took the paint back but the store person was insistent...
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    Flooring door clearance

    I currently have engineered wood flooring downstairs. I tried refinishing it a couple of years and, although it improved, it is still not good. The damage from before we bough the house was too deep. We're thinking of putting vinyl flooring over it but I'm concerned this will cause clearance...
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    Clear wood waterproofing / water sealer products

    I rebuilt my deck about 3 years ago and I have been using Thompsons' WaterSeal Clear Wood Sealer until now but I thought of asking here what better options are out there. First of all, the protection after less than a year is not good on any horizontal board, which is most of a deck. The...
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    Bathroom fan with light with only 14/2 wiring

    Hello everybody, I've been renovating one of our bathrooms and recently found a Broan bathroom fan with light at Costco than seemed a great improvement to the current (very) noisy one. For context the new fan is intended to have at least 3 conductors (14/3) wiring, with one of them controlling...
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    Seeding too late in the fall?

    So, I'm having a landscaping company do some work on my backyard and aerate my lawn. I was planning to seed over my current lawn after that. The problem is that it won't be until sometime in October before they do that. I'm concerned that that will be too late in the year for seeding, and maybe...
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    Marks in wood before treating

    Hi everyone, I rebuilt my deck in September of last year. I was thinking of staining and treating it this summer. I had forgotten to sand off the markings in the wood so I started with that but now the place where I sanded has a different color. I thought that maybe waiting a month would make...
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