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hmmmm cryptic responses. how are bulbs screwed in too tightly a problem, or are you just messing with me hehehe? also what was that about voltage? bad ground allows too much voltage because excess has no outlet? The amplitude of the ac voltage wave goes too high and low? maybe poltergeists...

This is a totally different issue than the previous one (that caused all the ruckus but appears to have ended up ok thanks to you guys' decent attitudes - I was impressed). A friend of mine has a friend who's lightbulb goes pop and burns out two days after putting it into the socket. I just...

Ha I was so fed up I didn't even come back to see how decent you guys were about it. I'm glad I haven't been blacklisted or something. I guess ranting and speaking your mind can clear the air sometimes. thanks for being cool. :D Will

ok ok guys I got kinda carried away. This whole thing is goofy. happy thanksgiving. I got all the info myself anyway.

Yeah that's what forums and various other sources of information are for. If you don't answer my questions I'll have to go get them elsewhere is all. Yes I've done electrical before. Hooked up lights, sockets, switches. I wanted little review of the basics because I generally like to avoid it...

Hi, Here's the situation: Customer wants me to enlarge the door of a closet to make it a kind of open alcove thing and build a sort of desk in there. They want a new electrical outlet on the wall under the desk to plug in their computer. The only problem is there isn't any junction box nearby...

This is the same hosue as the other post right before this, but a different question. They want some new posts put in to support the stairs going down to the basement. Its a sump pump type deal in the basement. I figured i'd just get some p.t. 4x4 posts and put them in concrete footings on...

Hi I'm about to do a ceramic tile job. For some reason ceramic tile is an area I never did get much experience in. I'd like to do it right. I have a basic understanding just from being a handyman and carpenter and from some books, but I still have a few questions. First off, one of...

thanks. I guess the general rule is you don't need to prime areas that have already been primed and painted, as she says this has. But just hypothetically, let's say that you were dealing with walls that had only been painted but never primed. would you ever put primer OVER ordinary interior...

I'm painting some basement panneling. it already has paint on it. The woman I'm doing the work for says that it was already primed. Would I put new primer on it if I repaint it or just paint it with regular interior paint?

actually shes just thinking of going with an indoor/outdoor carpet down there, which would be the easiest solution.

oh the color is like a kind of cream color or off white. its just adhesive that is over pretty much the whole floor in adhesive swirls.

what exactly do you mean?

Its just regular concrete colored

Hi I'm doing some work for a woman whose basement floor is covered with old dried up adhesive, I guess from carpeting that she had. Her basement flooded and she had to get rid of the carpet. Now she wants to do something with the floor to make it look decent. She probably doesnt want to put...

I just want to ask one more time, is there any way you can tell me what a ballpark figure for all those things I mentioned would be? i' stuck here trying to do the estimate and I just need ballparks. Will

I assume you mean 4 to 5 per sq foot labor rate, right?

Hi I was just about to buy the "contractors pricing guide - residential detailed costs" at home depot and then my truck broke down. I have a job coming up where the customer wants all kinds of things done mostly in a basement - taking down wall paneling and putting new paneling or...