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You must be really young. I remember when they went up to 4 and then 5 cents per letter. Writing letters home from summer camp was pricey in the mid-1950's. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia Did you notice they no longer have a "cents" sign on the keyboard like we did on...

Did you buy the house? If so, please let the group know whether the first scope inspection was correct and what the remedy was.

We had a sewer line scope when we sold our townhouse (built in 1928) in Washington, DC. The inspector found a major obstruction in the main sewer pipe under the basement floor near the foundation footing. The entire basement floor had been replaced in 2016 when we did a gut-rehab, lowered the...

Looking more closely at your pictures, I agree with leaving the existing railing and replacing treads and at most balusters, if you want natural wood finish.

That sounds like a fair ballpark estimate. Make sure you see a portfolio of work done on other jobs. curved railings are beyond my abilities.

Taunton Press (Fine Hombuilding) also has some good books on kitchen design.

Look at the video I sent. A pump to drain the collection pan would lift the water up to wherever it can drain in the house. I will take a litlte McGivering because you have a suboptimal structure to work with. But, there are solutions

Crawl Space Encapsulation 101: A Beginners Guide (youtube.com) Amazon lists many similar dehumidifiers. They pull ~500+ watts when running $500-1200. Much less than $16K if you install the encapsulation/vapor barrier. Probably the best solution and looks like something an able-bodied DYIs...

What a horrible situation and potential health with the mold and fungus incubating there. We had a similar problem in Illinois where multiple additions were added to a small cottage with major humidity and house cricket proglems. It was a nightmare. Since you have the floor open, access and...

Remove toe kick and direct fan there for a couple of days. If cabinets are MDF, the MDF can swell but it won't matter functionally once dried out and inside the cabinet. Replacing toe kick is pretty easy to match. If toe kick isn't easy to pull out, cut it out and use 1/4" ply based material...

Thanks for teaching us a new word: jackleg. What a great word and one we can use in public. It is fitting for so much of what we see when our neighbors hire local handymen and then ask us to help on a weekend with faulty plumbing or electric.

I do not argue your point at all. As a licensed professional, you have a standard you must adhere to. As an educated (electrical engineer) home owner, saving money for a straight-forward job is important too. Homeowner and buyer beware, for sure! With all respect to you, there are a...

That may be a legitimate concern, BUT I will wager that most electricians do not pull a permit to replace a circuit breaker or add CAFI & GFCI breakers. Two years ago, I pulled a permit to run a 90 amp subpanel from my house to my garage. This was the second subpanel I have installed in my own...

Most important for us 'amateur' electricians is to kill the feed to the panel as far away from where you are working as possible. I have added subpanels, new circuits, and even put in larger service panels but I always respect the disconnect and kill the hot feed. If the disconnect is in the...

Of course...hose thread....they have 34 of them at my local HD and my local Ace has 6

I am going with Alfred E Newman. It was replaced 5 years ago, 3 years before we bought the house. I will pick up a sacrificial anode before I drain it. It's outside the house (San Diego) in a closet with a drain pan, so I am not worried if I need to cap the drain valve to prevent drips, if it...

While on the subject of water heaters and corrosion, how often do you flush out the sediment from your water heater tank? How much do you take off and how often? How often should the sacrificial electrode be replaced? THanks

Adults have encountered RSV as a minor respiratory viral infection for decades, if not longer. Kids were not in school as much over the last two years and were not exposed to common respiratory illnesses as frequently, so their individual immunity to common viruses was not reinforced. Infants...

RSV is a ubiquitous virus that used to be primarily seen with peaks in winter and now is happening throughout more of the year. Individuals do not build enduring immunity as they can to chickenpox or measles, so one can get it multiple times (even in one season). There is no effective...

Foam has no real holding power