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We had a big thunderstorm with hail and dumping water today and I happened to grab something in the basement by the window and realized the window well was filling up. Within minutes the water was getting to window level, so I popped the screen and started bailing buckets from the window well. I...

Some family members were working yesterday so we are celebrating Thanksgiving today. While cooking, we ran the sink with the garbage disposal running and the area under the sink flooded hard. My troubleshooting: the water was coming out of the tall black drain pipe in the picture even though...

It always chafes at me to pay someone to do stuff unless it requires skills or specialized tools I don't have. Blowing out sprinkler lines doesn't require much in ways of skills but I don't own a compressor (I've got a tiny pancake one for painting my fence). In my area, I now need to pay...

A project I have been putting off for years is fixing storage options in my garage. It's a 2-car garage and we have 2 cars so "stuff" gets crammed around the walls. I have 2 shelves along a wall (12 linear feet at a guess) and a bunch of wall mounted hooks on the opposite wall. Bikes hanging...

My wife has a quilting home business in our basement and while we don't want to spend a lot of $ to re-do the basement stairs, we'd like to make them look a little better now that she has customers coming down to her studio. The house came with the basement unfinished, so the stairs were never...

When I bought my house the basement was unfinished, and the stairs to the basement are a "minimal job". I finished the basement in 2000 and had carpet professionally installed and they covered the stairs. Over the years the stairs got squeakier, but the basement was mostly a music room and...

I have a love/hate relationship with building/fixing stuff around the house. There is something really cool about doing it yourself, saving a bunch of $ (the main motivator for me if I'm honest). On the other hand, it takes so much time (I am a busy professional with limited free time during the...