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Hey Guys, My new house has very fancy but soft wood. Our floors, doors, baseboards and railings all ding and get damaged at the drop of a hat and the longer I live here the more defects I find. SO I redid the flooring in my wife's craft room (Pic attached) and when I took off the...

Hey Guys, I'm moving into a new (10 yr old) house with a 30' wide garage where the truss system spans the 30'. The bottom chords are 2x4 and is R30-38 insulated with drywall already on them. I've read and figure I have about 2-3lb/sqft of storage capacity left in the bottom chord but...

Hey all, I've had our kitchen table for about a decade. It's really nice but it has some quirks. If you place hot plates or anything warm on it, it would discolor. Also using clorox wipes caused the finish to become just a touch gooey. Yesterday my daughter poured nail polish remover on...

Hey Guys, SO this has been a crazy winter for the last month and a half here in ND and for the first time my sump pump line froze outside. I got lucky as I just happened to notice the new (this year) quiet pump was running because my inside pipes were leaking a little bit. The inside pipes...

Hello Everyone, Today I unearthed the source of our great basement smell. When we purchased our house the basement had nasty carpet from 1989 (Year house was built) that looked like it was from the early 70s. Upon removal we found a 2nd hole in our basement. When we replaced the carpet...

Hello Guys, I removed my deck and made some repairs. My wife and I think we want to do stairs down from the sliding doors to the ground where we'll put patio pavers. My wife doesn't like the railing most stairs but she likes this config. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/280700989247436642/...

Hey Guys, Back Again. I found this thread which looks like it could be similar to what I'm seeing. in the lower left corner but I'm confused about the top. http://www.houserepairtalk.com/showthread.php?t=9348 I bought this house about 6 years ago having someone hack in some new windows 3...

Hi guys, I thought I would be wrapped up today but instead I'm just frustrated. SO I went to put on the drip edge today and... I'm still not done after 3 hours. Backstory, when I ripped off the old drip edge what i thought was shingle starter strip stuck to the edge was actually...

Hey Guys, A few weeks ago we had a real rain storm and I identified what I thought was a slight roof water flow issue in the roof transition from the house to the garage. That's the photo labeled Water Issue.jpg I am now painting my siding but I went to paint some of the siding...

Hey Guys, I started putting up this neat brick panels last week and everything was going really swell made all the measurements. I went to put up the last layer this week and I see that it doesn't match up where I thought it would for the soffit F channel. On my measurement I goofed up and...

Hey Guys, SO my first set of breakers from when I installed my Tankless electric water heater started buzzing (quiet but there, not a chatter) when the unit is heating. I hoped changing them out may fix the issue but as suspected it didn't. I had feared this might happen as the 18kW water...

Hello! So I'm finally getting around to installing my new garage door and had to replace all the hardware so I went to tighten the torsion ring and the first spring tightened just fine but the 2nd spring gets to about 6 ... lines and then it starts to slip and will not tighten to 7...

Hi Guys. I've been doing a bunch of little stuff so I haven't chimed in for awhile but now I am. I had originally hired a contractor to do my siding. He has since stolen my money and is ignoring a small claim order to give my money back and looks like he's filing bakruptcy.... SO now It's time...

Hey Guys, My wife wants a long skinny window in the dining room like we had in Arizona... this is not Arizona I say but I lose. Huge surprise. So we found one at a 2nd hand shop she likes but it's from 2000 but only $50. Lost the picture of the window but I still have the picture of...

Hi, 2 years ago I replaced my flooring by my patio door (5 to 7 yrs old) and saw mold growing in an arc around the patio door. After replacing the carpet for duraceramic, this winter the door trim was pryed off the wall ~2inches by ice build up. I didn't think to take a picture of that...

Hi Guys, long time no post! I finally got some time to work on that bathroom again. Everything was going up GREAT until (dum dum dummmmm) I opened my 2nd to last mosaic tile and I find that somehow water had gotten inside and molded to the tile. I let it dry and then tried to remove the...

Hello, If you reference http://www.houserepairtalk.com/f33/tub-drain-rusted-through-18234/ you will see a picture of a 2 year old drain. It was so badly corroded that when I went to remove it, it broke in half after all 4 of the spokes broke off. That's 2 years... The house is 25 years old...

Hi All, As always I wait to the last minute to finish anything. I built a wall ac box because I replaced my AC unit and the old box didn't fit. It used some metal wire to hold the box on. I'd like to use something like draw latches to hold it to the house now but for the life of me I can't...

Hi everyone, I went to do something really easy and when I removed my tub drain to install a new one as the push button apparatus has broken in the old one I realized my drain was very rusted. I do have a water softener. Instead of using the normal pliers and wrench method I bought the dumb tool...

Okay, VICTORY The attic is DONE before winter, THIS ROCKS! BUT as I was raking the insulation back into place I noticed apparently some of my insulation disappeared (Lots of low spots that I probably didn't notice before). I live in ND so I figure a good 30' of insulation would be great for the...