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You guys are great! You all make good points. If I only wanted get the lower lock to engage, I'd probably try to fix it myself, using the guidance offered above by @Ron Van and others. But I've just scheduled a locksmith to come 6 days from now to rekey or replace the deadbolt lock, too.

The door from our kitchen to our deck no longer stays shut. The door, like the house, is 30 years old. I've demonstrated the problem in this 40-second video. I can't fix it myself. We don't use the upper lock--the deadbolt lock--because we have no idea what's become of the key(s). My wife says...

Thanks, guys. You've persuaded me to leave the wood uncut and hire a specialist to reconfigure the faucet's location, angle, and so on. I live in Maryland. The plastic U attachment is probably 15 years old.

The faucet below my deck is leaking badly. But the cutout that exposed the faucet is too small to get my hand in and turn; to install the U-adapter and hose, I had to hire a less claustrophobic handyman to crawl under the deck and screw them in from below. I want to trim away some of the...

I can assure you, it's not the smoke detector. That beep would be obstreporously loud, This beep was muffled until, on a hunch, my wife opened the cabinet door. The closer I put my ear, the louder it sounds. I shot a video of the box from 2 feet away. But my camera's audio pickup ends at 11,000...

Greetings, One of my kitchen sockets--or rather, the box to which it's attached--has begun to quietly beep, even when nothing is plugged in. The pattern is: 1 beep, silence, 2 beeps, silence. This cycle repeats about 28 times a minute. Shutting off the circuit stops the beeping. As a...

Greetings from a first-time poster. By design, our bathroom wall switch glows orange; the switch operates a pair of over-the-sink lightbulbs. After about eight years, something is now wrong with the switch...or the wiring. The bulbs won't turn ON, yet the switch will glow as long as it...