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Hello everyone!! I think I know what is wrong but want to run it by you guys. I have an American PROLine water heater 80 gallon circa late 2002 begin use 2003. Electric with two elements. Last couple days my wife was complaining of overly hot water. I use a thermostat to take temp and...

Hey everyone. Current vapor barrier in crawl is about 12 years old. It seems thin, maybe 3 mils or 6 mils at best. At any rate, its shredding in several areas exposing the damp dirt underneath. I live in a heavy clay/chirt area. Soil is hard packed. I want to completely cover dirt floor...

Hey all, been a while. I have a question about my particular situation. The set up is this... Four years ago I had a TVA audit to replace my compressor/airhandler/trunk/ducts. I ended up with a 4 ton two speed compressor connected to a variable speed air handler along with 40 feet of...

I believe I may have a pressure reducing valve problem. I have attached a picture. Symptoms: About 4-5 months ago I noticed increased pressure and force out of the shower heads. Also about 4 weeks ago I noticed some water hammering in the upstairs bathroom fixtures which is not present on...

Hello I have a home built in the year 2003. I purchased the home inn 2007. The foundation is concrete block with several individual piers throughout the crawlspace. The crawlspace varies between 3-4 feet high. The problem area is below lot grade by about 1-2 feet. There are two piers in...

Home constructed in 2003. Started an update to guest bathroom which is about 5 feet by 6 feet of blah cream colored 8"x8" tile. Im not working right now and figured I would jazz it up a bit. I have done small tile jobs before I this should be a piece of cake for me. Except for bathrooms...

About half of my attic has plywood sheeting installed on the attic floor. In the cavities there are R-19 batts. This allows for good storage areas, but not so good insulation. I have been slowly adding R-30 unfaced batts on top of the plywood sheeting. I have come to an area where the...

I live in "one of those" subdivisions where everyone has a pole light mounted to their brick or stone mailbox at the end of the drive on the street. The light is supposed to be on all the time in darkness, hence my problem. Last year mine stopped working in the middle of the winter. This...

I believe the very best time to use crabgrass preventer is in the late fall, in the next few weeks. Second best time is in the very early spring assuming bare ground, say first couple weeks of March. However, my mother wants to aerate and overseed in the late April so I am telling her we...

Hello, been awhile. Hope I can pick your brains for a minute. About a year and a half ago I had some new frost free sillcocks installed. They have a plastic cap with some sort of pressure valve on top of some kind. Anyway this spring I noticed some water dripping out of them through this...

Hey I have an 8 year old home with two Goodman split system heat pumps. By split system I mean the evaporator is in the the crawl space and the condenser is outside. (maybe I have it backwards?) Anyway I am losing coolant in the larger 4 ton system. A tech used some sort of leak detector...

hello, My home has a crawl space beneath with hardwood floors throughout. In the crawl there is R-19 Kraft faced fiberglass batts stuffed in between the floor joists with wire supports. The facing is toward the living space, that is when Im in the crawl space and look up, I see pink...

My home has 2 HVAC units a large one for the first floor in the crawl and a large one for upstairs in the attic. My problem is with the larger one. I turned it on yesterday and noticed it didnt seem to be cooling very well. I went outside and the cold line was only cool while the cold line...

Hello, Purchased home in the middle of a major drought in the SouthEast United States 3 years ago. When we inspected under the home in the crawl there was absolutely no evidence at all of water. This winter was especially wet. Also there were many storms of several inches of wind...

Hey guys, please help me out. Glenn, you out there? My HVAC unit completely stopped pushing air through the vents all of a sudden and its hot today! What happened. 1) noticed it was warm in my home. 2) checked thermostat and it is calling for cold air 3) checked for air flow at the...

I am the second owner of a 7 year old home. I have been in and out of my crawl space a lot lately. Every time I go in I have to crawl around my HVAC system. I always thought something was not quite right with the ducting, well I just figured it out. There is a duct that runs from the...

I have a pest control company who wants to remove 6-8 cinder blocks from my foundation from the inside of my crawlspace to treat for termites. This is necessary to directly treat the areas which are inaccessable from the outside because of my front porch and two back poured concrete patios...

Hi Everyone, not sure where this goes so I will just put it here for now. Warm here in Georgia lately. Yesterday I noticed a small swarm of termites in my attached garage. By small I mean approx 200 fliers maybe a few more. Garage door was closed and they werent flying yet so I got a good...

Hey guys, Exactly one year ago I purchased 3 multipacks of FEIT electric CFL spriral lights. I cant say I would advise anyone to do the same. I bought an 8 pack of 60 watt replacements, a 6 pack of 100 watt replacements and a 6 pack of 65 watt can light flood replacements. So far 4 of the...

Hello, I have two combination heat pump/ac systems in my new to me home. A smaller unit controls the upstairs and a larger unit controls the downstairs. They both consist of a long distribution tunnel and several round flex duct lines that run to the vents in the ceiling upstairs and in...