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I have an acrylic bathtub which has cracked. Actually, it is worse than that, my mother-in-law has a cracked tub. Anyway, I am fairly sure that I know the answer to the problem, but does anyone have a way to repair the tub that is more than a band aid? I have done considerable work in the...

My old house has a large, open crawlspace besides a small basement. I am going to do a radon test to determine if I have excess radon in those areas. Even if I do not find high radon levels I would like to seal the open dirt off from the house. What is the best way to seal the floor area of...

I have a wiring dilemma. I have a friend who redid most of his kitchen and now he asks for wiring help. There is a light above the sink which formerly had a pull chain on it. The new fixture they want there, of course, does not have a switch built into it. Because the walls are now finished...

I have run into a strange one. Long story short the neighbor has offered to pay me to finish a job someone else started and bailed out on. It amounts to finishing out a bathroom and office in a rural machine shed. Most things look decently done and no big deal, except for floor heat which...

I have a toilet flange issue. The toilet flange is in a poured concrete floor with heater tubing in the floor. The flange ended up about 1" low. What is the easiest way to get the toilet flange on top of the slab as it should be? Seems like I have heard of using a second flange that is...

I have just put down a new hardwood floor and I am looking for ideas to compensate for floor height differences. Our house was built in stages between 1900 and 1940. For some reason the two sections have a different floor height. The floor I just installed is approximately 1 1/2" lower than...

Any body out there know if a combination light/fan switch with a dimmer for dimmable CFL's and/or LED's and a three speed fan switch for a single gang box exists? I have talked to Hunter and Hampton Bay customer service people. When I ask this question there is a pregnant pause and then the...

I live in a rural area in central Illinois. My domestic water is supplied from a 22' hand dug, brick lined well. Through last summer's drought I never ran out of water. However, I have had the water tested by the state lab and we have microrganisms, nitrates from fertilizer and hard water...

I have an area in the 1940? section of my home where due to water seepage around a replacement window I have extensive termite damage. I have a 3' plus area where the 6"x8" sill beam has been completely eaten away. The nasty bugs did do eat the floor joists just the sill beam the joists were...

Hi everyone, I have read this sight in the past for useful hints. I decided to dive in all the way and sign up. I am what would probably be called a semi-pro. I retired a while back from a full time firefighter job but have worked construction part time and none DIY projects all my life. I...