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  1. J

    screening in breezeway

    Thanks to both of you!
  2. J

    gutter repairs

    Thanks! I suspected that.
  3. J

    screening in breezeway

    Between my house and garage is a roofed breezeway. The floor is an old, uncracked concrete pad that is 8" thick (on visible edges). I want to enclose it by framing 2 walls, each 10' long x 87" high, using 2x4 lumber, and adding screen wire and a wooden screen door on each side. I've also...
  4. J

    Beautiful Old Farm Table Smells!!

    I was able to remove an odor from unfinished wooden drawers in an old chest of drawers by filling them with wadded up newspaper and putting each into a trash bag full of more wadded newspaper and leaving them for a month. I'm not sure how to translate that method to a large table. Perhaps you...
  5. J

    gutter repairs

    I have bought a simple ranch house with straight runs of 5" K style aluminum guttering front and back. It is a mess. Spikes are all loose, so guttering sags beyond reach of drip edge. Some spikes were simply moved up to avoid old worn hole, and that was at what should have been the low end...
  6. J

    Actual size of oval type B vent pipe

    In my one story house I'm removing an interior wall which houses an oval, probably asbestos cement vent for a natural gas furnace (80%, 1998) which sits below in the basement. I want to remove it and replace it with a newer type one and move it over the 6" that seem to be available for doing...
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