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My 1973 built contemporary home has a breakfast bar opposite the kitchen sink, and the breakfast bar projects out 90 degrees from an outside wall. So the vent lines for the two sink drains and dishwasher drain is not a direct shot into the outside wall and up through the attic to the roof vent...

Few years back I replaced the VERY noisy screw drive OH door opener in my attached garage with a new 1/2HP Chamberlin belt drive opener. Much better, but then of course other noises become more obvious. Few weeks back I replaced a failed torsion spring, and while doing that I better aligned the...

Left (from inside) spring broke on my 7x16 OH door. Its a steel insulated Coplay door that has been in the garage since I bought the house in Sept 2002. No issues other than routine maintenance, that is until the left spring broke just after I backed the car out on our 1100 round trip to Walton...

Couple contractors around here are now pitching "roof rejuvination" chemical applications on aged roofs to add many years of service in place of spending big bucks on a new roof. Anyone here got feedback on it being any good, or a waste of money? By the way, the roof on my house, done back in...

Getting further on my kitchen remodel, which includes new flooring. And the flooring will continue into the dining room, down the main hall all the way back to the bedrooms. Vynil flooring is all the rage these days and yet I feel thicker hardwood is the choice. At Home Depot I talked to the...

I remodelled the main bath in our 1973 built home back in 2018. Added a shower where previously was a bathtub, so there is a lot more water use in there since 2018. I repainted the walls with Behr interior paint, applied over the cleaned previous paint on the walls. Two sinks on the vanity, like...

I remodelled the main bath in our 1973 built home back in 2018. Added a shower where previously was a bathtub, so there is a lot more water use in there since 2018. I repainted the walls with Behr interior paint, applied over the cleaned previous paint on the walls. Two sinks on the vanity, like...

TV commercials come on for "Got Junk?" and various other likewise services that show an excited person having fun pointing at stuff in the garage, and its gone! Magic! The little pile of kids stuff, an old kiddy pool, old toys, maybe an old dresser, just point and gone! These commercials come on...

Pic attached is my house, and the center front section is all thermopanes and a large solid oak door (84" high x 42" wide). Years ago I repaired the rotted bottom portion of the door, some door threshold repair and installed an aluminum threshold. The, uh, "brilliant" architect that designed the...

My BIL got a 32' RV for nothing a year or so back, guy that had just wanted it gone. Only about 35,000 miles on it and worn but clean, frame is solid, can still the factory black paint on most of it. Its a late 70s Class-A RV mounted on a GMC P30 chassis that had a 455 V8 in it, but no more. My...

Storloc.com Saw these tool carts on display in the vendor building at the EAA last Sunday. Looks like nice stuff, all US built. Not cheap though, the Stor-Loc STOR-CART was listed at $795. They are located in Kankakee IL so I may have to stop by their facility to see if they have direct sales...

Found a set of Wren ratcheting open end wrenches in the vendor rows at the EAA Fly in, in Oshkosh. Selling for $84 for four wrenches and a neat pouch. Couldn't resist. These are nice German made slender shank wrenches, with a box end that ratchets every 30 degrees. Anyone else use Wren products...

Going back to my years of building model cars as a kid, this is very tempting: https://buildbrainy.shop/product/metal-model-kit/ But, c'mon, a kit like this for only $40? I say BS, especially because it is a seller on Facebook. I did fall for a similar ad last year, showing a "metal" kit of an...

My brother called me, "You want a free vertical press?" Picture he sent was a 20 ton Harbor Freight vertical press. SURE! My brother is 25 miles away but he said a friend lives up the street from where the press is standing outside a vacant house (family moved out) and the press was out with the...

I built my shop garage in spring of 2020, and I still have piles of left over 2x4, 2x6, plywood, etc. I have a scrap habit,....meaning I hang onto pieces of scrap dimensional lumber, lots of them. I need to set a standard, like, less than 36" long scrap the damn stuff. I need to load up my...

Back in 2005 I was planning a shed in the back yard, on a wood deck set over a gravel pad. I planned to use pre-cast footers to support the deck joists, but the 12 footers had to be level for the 12x16 deck. So I looked up a 5-gal bucket water level system, and used it to set up the footers...

Any suggestions on a decent hammer/dolly set for bodywork and sheetmetal? I'd like to get a good used set, Craftsman (old), Snap-On or Martin. Gearwrench I've read has an ok set. Harbor Freight, nope. Most of the less expensive sets on Amazon look ok, but many reviews have hammer heads falling...

My wife dropped something dense and heavy in the undermount sink on her end of the bathroom vanity, and she done cracked it good. Its a white ceramic sink from Menards, bought new back in 2018. So, add another item to my "honey do" list. Stuff happens, but I am surprised how easily it cracked...

I have a 80's vintage Rackwell Delta Powershop radial arm saw that I still use regularly. Can still do a lot with it. I'd like to find a decent 10" sanding disc attachment for it. Any recommendations?

When I bought my house in Green Bay WI back in 2002 one of the first things I did was correct some landscape/drainage issues with fill and buried 4" green thin wall plastic drain pipes for the downspouts to take water out away from the house. One is on the NW front of the house, the other is on...