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Just in case someone here knows what's wrong... I usually water this cactus a lot less over the fall/winter, and it usually goes dormant which involves getting "skinny", and when I start watering it more in the spring it bounces back. That's what's usually happened in the 7 or 8 years I've had...

I might get access to a deck a neighbor is tearing down. 1x6 and 1x12 untreated cedar planks. He's offered to let me pick through the wood; he says a lot of it's rotten but there are plenty of good planks too. I just need an idea of what to do with it...

There's this one house in my neighborhood, when I walk past it, I hear these incredibly high-pitched beeps. Almost sounds like it's coming from inside my own head, except I only ever hear it walking past this one house. Four beeps, then a pause, then four more, then again a few more times, each...

Welcome back to Flyover's I Want To Build My Own House One Day show. This time we're asking about water quality. If you want to make sure the water in your house will taste good, not smell like eggs or rust, and so on, what kinds of things should you consider as you're looking for a plot of...

Brought this up in another thread but decided to make one dedicated to it. I had gutter guards at a previous house, same type as a friend had on his house: essentially a metal grate screwed in place over the gutters. My friend and I had the same problem: The guards did not work, and merely...

We've got a couple people here who built or are in the process of building their own homes, presumably just the way you wanted. What advice about that process would you give your past self 20 years before you built the house?

We had a few days of rain/storms here and today I discovered water in my basement, both pooled up in a few areas and dampness along every little crack in the floor, and along some of the walls. The sump pump has water right up to the top of the hole under the lid. I don't hear it working, but a...

I'm looking for an item made of metal but I can't find it in the color I want. I know there are paints for metal, but I don't want the paint to wear off: although the item will be kept inside it will get touched a lot. Is there a special type of paint I need to buy? Or a coating or something?

This isn't actually a home improvement question, but hopefully your home improvement know-how can help me answer it. I've got a metal water bottle whose cap is connected to the body by a plastic strap. This plastic strap includes a rigid hinged piece on the body end and a rigid hinged piece on...

My main valve drips. This was a known issue when we bought the house, but the leak was very small and for a while there it seemed to go away completely. Or so I thought. Turns out, I just wasn't noticing it. Then one day I noticed one of the shelves I'd placed under it (made out of a hollowcore...

This isn't a typical plumbing question but I couldn't find a better place to ask it. I would like to make a drinking straw for a very large water bottle. I could go on Amazon and search for "extra long drinking straw" but then I'd probably have to order in bulk, and get something of unknown...

I'm having trouble entering the right search string into DDG to get an answer to this, hoping someone here knows and can forward more info. If post-frame/pole barns are sometimes built on sloping ground, are there examples and discussion? If they are never built on sloping ground, what's the...

I have a Wasabi knife sharpener but the stones for it are wearing out, as I was warned would happen. Can anyone recommend a set of replacement stones that look like they'd fit? Here are the stones that came with it, so I'd be looking to replace those:

I believe we are looking at the return duct on the left side of this photo... I want to place a pair of fairly strong magnets approximately where the green circles are, to hold up a small whiteboard. The magnets would not be placed anywhere else on the furnace. Is that okay or could it screw up...

Someone made a comment about flooring that made me curious about this question.

It seems like no matter what, the bathroom sink drains in my house inevitably end up clogged with black goo. It clings to the inside of the flanges and tailpieces, and totally gunks up the stoppers. Every few weeks or so, the sinks start not draining well until I go in and manually remove this...

Right now my office has basically two outlets: one at the base of the bare-bulb light in the ceiling, and one on the wall. Both of these are split from the same junction box (also in the ceiling) and are "full". To get more room without daisy-chaining power strips, I'd like to add another...

The rubbery weather stripping on the French door to my sun room is hanging on by a thread. The baby actually likes to come and tug on it. Is there a type of glue I can use to secure it back in place? Or do I need to remove it and replace with a new one?

Pretty much what I show in the diagram. One of the handles, if it's not turned exactly to 90˚, causes the faucet to leak. And sometimes even when it's at 90˚ I have to fiddle with it a bit to get the leak to stop. (The kids, of course, never bother to fiddle with it, so I often find the sink has...

Didn't want to pollute the "What did you do today" thread with politics, so I split this off here. I clicked the link Eddie, but I couldn't make heads or tails of it. (Not without committing to read that website's wall of text, which I do not have time for right now.) From skimming it looks...