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Photo link The white speckles on the outside of the pipe are wall texturing overspray, and you can see rust stains from the dripping water. At the edges of the break there are places with little flaps of surface material sort of peeled outward. One forum I read says the pH of gas furnace...

My 10-year-old gas furnace has a small drain pipe to carry away condensation, which I plumbed into the house system using an arrangement whereby the drain drips into an open trap. On average the furnace puts out almost a quart of water per day. Recently there was some strange seepage on the...

After remodeling my basement I noticed that the hinge side of a new bathroom doorway (built by me) is almost 3/4" out of alignment at the bottom. I must have kicked it or something before attaching it to the slab. Unfortunately I didn't get around to installing the door and noticing the problem...

I lifted my house about 8 years ago -- hired professional lifters and then did most of the inside work on the new rooms myself. They used an air jack system to do the actual lift, and used 8x8's for cribbing. Looked like the house was standing on stacks of lincoln logs. They hung the existing...

This is just a general question. I always thought a bearing wall bore a load above it, for example a wall on a lower floor that has an upper floor wall on top of it or crossing it. How can a wall under an open attic space be a bearing wall?

Russell -- In my house the joists originally rested on 8x8 horizontal timbers spaced about 8 ft apart. So if I were lifting my own house myself (which I definitely would NOT recommend doing except as a last resort) I would probably use somewhat larger beams for safety sake, say 6x12 instead of...

But others contemplating a house lift might benefit from my photos. We had our 100-year-old house lifted 3 ft about 8 years ago to convert a crummy low-ceiling basement to nice clean open living space. Our progress slowed due to some medical issues my daughter had. So I can sympathize with...