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Last week 10 of us from church went to eastern NC to a little town called Windsor to help Carolina Rebuilding Ministries convert part of a school into a volunteer center to allow them to put 50 volunteers up overnight for helping repair homes in the fairly poor section of NC about 2 hours from...

I was volunteering last week in Windsor NC helping a non-profit ministry (Carolina Rebuilding Ministry) begin to convert an old school into a volunteer center that will house up to 50 volunteer builders at a time. As part of if we were putting in showers in the old teachers lounge. As I was...

I stumbled on Jeremy Fielding's YouTube channel the other day. I watched a couple of his videos and found them quite good. Check him out. He did one on the old perpetual motion machine concept of why just adding an alternator to an EV won't charge the battery more than it sucks up making...

This guy has a great series on the CTS condo collapse last year in Florida. I'd recommend the whole series along with ones from jeffostroff. This is the latest video from Josh Porter and if you haven't been following it the first law suit was settled for close to $1B USD. Jeff's Channel...

Has anyone tried using these? Any idea of costs or availability? No info on the website about retailers or cost. I have sent an email to the contact us section asking. https://kdstairs.com

Found this while looking for another engineering related video. I had never seen main transmission lines buried, normally for the high voltage stuff they go above ground on towers and only bury the lines into the neighborhoods. From the generation plant to the sub stations it is normally above...

My Mantis tiller and Echo weed wacker both didn't want to run this year and replacing the spark plug and fresh fuel didn't help. I bought new carbs on Amazon for both for less than $15 each. The kits included new spark plugs, air filters, fuel filters, gaskets and the carburetor. Swapped them...

All, Not sure how many others have been getting private messages from Upside Down, If you get one, I'd just ignore it. This was the final message I got with the subject line of Plumbing, after telling him he should post his questions publicly. Plumbing? Thanks for your permission to proceed...

I'm trying vinyl corner bead on a couple of outside corners on my basement project. In watching a few videos on YouTube about it they recommend using Trim Tech 847 or 3M Super 77 spray adhesive along with staples to secure it to the drywall. I installed one strip last night using 1.25"...

I helped a friend over the weekend repair a plumbing leak in his relatively new (10 year old home) with PEX-b plumbing. He has slightly acidic well water. When we cut into the ceiling this is what we found, as soon as I cut the 1/2" PEX to remove the bad fitting it fell apart. It was a brass...

Is my take on this correct? The minimum size circuit is 17 amps, max breaker is 30 amps. So if I run 12 gauge wire with a 2 pole 20 amp breaker I'm good to go? Wire and breaker have to match. It is for a Trane/Mitsubishi mini-split HVAC. This is the plate on the outside unit.

Can some one tell me where TR rated outlets are required today? I'm finishing my basement and have a mix of TR and regular outlets in my stockpile of stuff. Are the non-TR ones OK to use? The circuits are all Arc Fault / GFCI protected. I'm fairly certain they are required in bedrooms, but not...

On Saturday I helped on a Habitat for Humanity project in Apex, NC that our church is sponsoring with other Lutheran Churches in the area. We made a lot of progress laying down the second floor Advantech floor, others were working on wall panels that will be hoisted up and set up in the next...

I pulled permits for my 1000 square foot walkout basement project earlier this year and had my first inspection on Tuesday. First the good news, my electrical passed and the inspector was very impressed with the quality of my work. Plumbing didn't pass, not due to what I've done, but due to...

I'm finishing my basement and know I need to put in GFCI/Anti-arc outlets or breakers. Are they required for lighting circuits? I went to technical school in HS to be an electrician but that was a few generations of code ago and anti-arc circuits didn't exist at the time. GFCIs were still...

I see a number of Canadian HGTV produced shows here in the states and I know our friends to the north use the metric system. But on these shows the host/builder will usually talk in feet and inches for measurements. Given the proximity to the US and our shared manufactures of building supplies...

Has anyone tried these for Ryobi 18V tools? My current batch of batteries are no longer holding a charge for very long. These are way cheaper than Ryobi's but I'd love to hear if anyone has tried them. My primary driver and drill are Dewalts, but I have a large selection of Ryobi 18V tools...

I'm doing a little demolition work at our church removing some permanent risers in the choir practice room. They don't practice in there and removing the risers will make the room more useful for other things. So last week we removed the plywood flooring and the 2x6 steel studs used for the...

My wife is a real estate agent. One of her fellow agents has a listing that went under contract, ranch house built in the mid-1960s. It has popcorn ceilings (ugh) with 3% asbestos per the home inspector and the drywall compound on the walls has 2% asbestos. Thoughts on abatement? My thought...

On Saturday I led a team of volunteers from our church to do some drywall work on a home that was damaged during Hurricane Florence last year. The house had been completely gutted to the studs, rewired, replumbed, insulated and most of the drywall reinstalled. All but the electrical has been...