Recent content by papakevin

Awesome, thank you. I appreciate it.

Thank you for the suggestion. I will look into these options.

Confirming it is drywall.

Warning, I'm not much of a painter, so the following questions are very basic. I have a brick home with a covered front porch, open in the front. Lately, the ceiling paint has started to crack, and some of it is falling off. I'm assuming the ceiling is drywall or greenboard, but it could be...

Thanks for the suggestion. I forgot to mention my post that there is concrete down at the base of the quotes. I dug down as far as I could before I hit it.

Long story short - had some rough cut lumber on the ground against the bottom of this fence post. It rotted, impacted the fence post as well. Now this post is leaning out. The other posts are all in good shape. Looking for a way to fix this without digging out the post. Suggestions? Is...

I have a 6-7 year old cedar fence and deck was stained with a semi-train parent stain when new. Now it is showing some age and need to be cleaned and stained/painted. What are the proper steps for restraining / painting a previously stained fence and deck? Should I keep it a...

Got to the cabin yesterday and made progress. Found the main support beam is attached to a 4x6” post in the ground. A 2x8 is the attached on both sides of the post to provide a point to attach the additional floor joists. Since access was limited, I pulled back the bedroom carpet and cut myself...

From what I can tell, the wall in question runs along the beam highlighted in red. I’ve attached a photo without the markup as well. Later this week I’m going to remove the black drain pipe in the photos and clear out some of other junk underneath so I can get a better view of what is going on.

We have a cabin at our camp which isn’t built on a solid foundation. The front part was constructed on an old concrete pad/driveway. The rear of the cabin has 4x4 posts in concrete for the framing and floor joists are just off the ground (maybe 6-8” of clearance. I have an interior wall with...

I actually used the Fluidmaster Better Than Wax gasket and it seemed to work fine. Better than messing with the wax stuff IMHO.

Thanks everyone. The toilet is an American Standard Champion which cost around $250 at Home Depot. It’s only been installed for about a week. I did purchase a new seat for it (it came with a cheap plastic seat) and the wife seems to be slightly happier, so thinking we will keep it where it is...

Asking because the wife insisted we get a round toilet for our main level 1/2 bath which is small. After a couple days she has admitted she hates it and now wants an elongated toilet. FML. I have a full bath upstairs with an older toilet, so thinking I can move this one upstairs as it doesn’t...