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Post a picture of the entire cart. You might be better off replacing the axle and wheels with something more readily available.

Note those caps seem to assume either an open attic or 2x12 joists. And very pricey. Seems to me that any noncombustible insulation around an uninsulated can would achieve the same result.

I saw guys at work pitching a Bosch Bulldog rotary hammer drill into the dumpster - said it didn't work, and they got OK to buy a new one. I took it home, found the power cord had bent too many times at the strain relief, and wouldn't let the electricity in any more. I pulled the cord into the...

You can buy preformed concrete piers for the posts as well. https://www.homedepot.com/p/11-1-2-in-x-8-in-x-11-1-2-in-Concrete-Block-10550005/100350712 Simpson makes all kinds of bases (saddles): https://www.strongtie.com/capsandbases_woodconnectors/category

Be careful. My light refresh of our master bath is over $25K and climbing, although there were extenuating circumstances.

Anybody around who could back in and sit there until you and another old fart or 2 get the thing on the truck? Or see if there's a local guy with a truck who would do that and haul it away for a few bucks.

So you put down the glue when you laid the tiles? Call the glue manufacturer and ask them how to get the glue off.

Thanks, OD. (I had a dog named Odie who couldn't learn any tricks, new or old. Flunked obedience school. I miss him.) One more drywaller story - an old student of mine (and vice-versa) has a gorgeous home in the mountains of Colorado. The great room must be 40x60 and looks out a huge window...

We're re-doing our master bath to make it ADA-friendly for yours truly. Thanks to my new friend, ALS, we've hired this out rather than doing it ourselves, as we have done for the last 45 years or so. I thought I was a pretty good DIYer, but I was humbled (watching the real pros at work) and...

I've installed hundreds of Hyperikon T8 LED replacements (available at Amazon, as low as ~$6/tube, depending on many variables) and taken great joy in throwing out all the ballasts. Some LED replacements brag about being able to leave the ballasts in (some require them), but to me, one of the...

I installed a QO "Combination AFCI Circuit Breaker (CAFI)" breaker a few months ago. Note it was not specifically an AFCI/GFCI. It also had built-in diagnostics, which detected shared neutrals and tripped it if found one: Square D tech support was very confused about this, and tried to tell me...

It doesn't; I apologize. But all bathroom receptacles now must be AFCI protected, can't share a circuit with any other non-bath room, and with this configuration you've got a "multiwire branch circuit" with a shared neutral, which will mess up some AFCIs, if they're in the service panel. You're...

The hinge side has to be plumb; the other three sides can be matched by milling the door.

I love floating tenons.

I would be more inclined to run one pair (W/B) to the switch. At the switch, interrupt the hot (B) with the switch, and run the resulting (W/B) pair the to the light.

I'd be real surprised if those push-in connectors accommodated 10AWG. Also, there might be a couple code problems, since bathrooms are involved.

Practically speaking, I think your example is fine, as long as the breaker is 15A or less. For an extreme example, suppose some genius invents a laser-powered range that only uses 10A. But he notices that the thousands of old ranges he wants to replace have those giant plugs on them, and a...

That's my feeling as well, but in #16 you said "[the code] does have a problem with reducing the size of the wire in the run. Even though this reduction will be perfectly safe for the 20amp outlets, it still violates code." I haven't been able to find that violation explicitly called out, and if...

Can one of the pros tell me the code section that prohibits reducing conductor size?

The more I think about it, 120VAC at the commutator doesn't make much sense in this variable-speed, reversible device. This thing has a very fancy trigger assembly (with a reversing switch), that I suspect converts AC to variable DC to drive the motor, control the speed, and reverse it. I can't...