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    How is this possible??

    How could one change the anti scold at the shower? I disconnected the handle from the wall and it's just a blind pipe into the tile wall. The tubs s are not back to back, and actually rather far apart.
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    How is this possible??

    Town water. Prob just gonna have to eat cost of having someone come out. There is gunk, mineral build up on a lot of what is coming off the water heater but as above, why would the faucets work fine???
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    How is this possible??

    How would one get to these? Removed the plate on the shower knob and just goes blindly into the wall. Am I going to have to remove wall to get to these (or plumber have to) ??
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    How is this possible??

    Story house, one 75gal water heater. Downstairs shower and all faucets, including upstairs faucets have hot water. Showered in the upstairs showers (bath/shower combo style) and initially I had a hot shower. Now, all of the sudden, no hot water whatsoever ever in either upstairs tub...
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    Plugging in vaccum trips breaker in upstairs bedroom

    Seems to be on more than one outlet. Little worried, this is not the first electrical problem on this home. We just bought and all the outlets, switches checked out in inspection. But if course, right after we move in... The powder room downstairs has a problem with the vent fan...that on...
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    Window into patio door question.

    Any pearls on removing the bolted floor plate?
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    Window into patio door question.

    Hello. For some reason, the builders/ pref owners have a window overlooking a courtyard that just begs a door. So, we want to place on there. Will take a bit of framing in since the window is quite large bit my question is: It's in las Vegas and is is on a PTS foundation. No basement. I have...
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    wall removal surprise

    Turns out this is a shear wall, almost definitely. However, it's a relatively small interior wall. We still have to make a roughly 12 ft walkway through it. There are 2 hold downs one at the junction of the exterior wall and one near the center Sill plate on floor with multiple bolts...
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    wall removal surprise

    Hello, So I had a licensed contractor come in and bid on a project in the home (had several actually) and I asked about.a particular wall I wanted to knock out to make BR bigger. Told for sure it was a non bearing wall. I went up to crawl space and it would appear so. However, upon removing...
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