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My wife had a plumber install a firepit last year, and install a propane-->natural gas conversion kit. The valve has gotten corroded and needs to be replaced, but I'm now wondering if the guy converted it correctly. I have two questions: 1) Is the screen air opening in the burner supposed to be...

I'll cut to the question, then fill in the background: Are Carrier circuit boards HK42FZ0723313 and HK42FZ0723715 functionally equivalent, or are there differences that make the latter an inappropriate replacement for the former? My furnace (Bryant CNPVP4821ALAAAAA) is not kicking on the...

Thinking about replacing our WISP service with Starlink. The hardest part, of course, is figuring out where and how to mount it, power it, protect against lightning, etc. I found a few pics around the forum, but let's see how you did it. I need some ideas. Mark

Title says it: When oil is draining from the vehicle into the tank, how is the displaced air in the tank supposed to escape? Here's why I'm asking: I've had one of these since 2009, with no issues. I have noticed, though, that the oil doesn't drain from the funnel into the tank nearly as fast...

I have an existing outlet on the outside of a 40+ year old home in FL. We added an enclosed patio, and ran conduit under the pavers to where we need another outlet. What's the right way to get the wiring in the wall out to the conduit, while still powering outlets in the existing location? It...

The hose ends on some of my HF hose reels are starting to fail, and I'd like to replace them. A barbed fitting and hose clamp would "work", but would create another thing to maintain, and be a pain to drag around the shop. Are there more elegant solutions, or is just replacing the hose the best...

Our new-to-us home's patio doors are metal. Only one is really used, but the other can be opened to create a double opening. The issue is that the primary door is hung such that there is a slightly larger gap at the top hinge than the bottom, which means the door binds at the top when closed. It...

I discovered last night that the filter housing in our new-to-us home is installed so the water flows "backwards", and has been since installed. Is it worth the hassle to fix, or does it just mean the water flows through the filter the wrong way, but the water is still filtered fine? In the...

Like a lot of FL homes, ours has a "curb" (is that the right term?) around the back and part of the side of the garage floor slab. In the photo below I'm going to remove the water heater and move the laundry to the right, and am looking to remove roughly 3' of that curb. Is that likely a doable...

The hot water recirc system in our (circa 2003) home hasn't worked great since we bought it in 2020, and it's been making a racket if the pump runs very long for the last year. I thought it might be air in the return line, but after installing a vented 90* fitting in that return I don't believe...

Any ideas why voltage on many, but not all, of the circuits on a new-to-me but 40yo house would fall to 94v, stay there for a few minutes, then come back up to 120v? AC compressor wasn't running when the problem occurred, came on while it was, and was still running when voltage came back up...

New to us 40yo home in FL, built on a slab. (A technology with which I am not at all familiar. In CO we always had basements or crawl spaces.) The home's floors are a mess, so we are replacing nearly all them with tile. The whole house has an old musty sort of smell. When the tile guys were...

We are buying a home that's a little dated, and one of the things we'd like to do is replace the interior doors (including the door into the garage, which lets me post here :ROFLMAO: ). Rather than replacing all of them with pre-hung doors, we are thinking of just letting Home Depot cut the...

The original owner of my home had a good idea to indent the garage door seating area a little below the floor to keep water from coming in. That works well, but the poor execution means that water - from my snowblower, for example, or a snowy car - can't get out, or at least not all the way out...

I need an outlet for an EVSE in our garage. It needs to pass inspection, and I'd like to future proof a bit by running 4g wire to support 48a charging in the future. (The soon-to-ours PHEV in question only supports 16a charging, but I'll be using a JuiceBox 40a charger, so both the breaker and...

The 2-stage tube heater I got to replace my failed Reznor, came with the thermostat wiring diagram below. They don't use the typical wiring designations, but I think "24VAC" is the Rc terminal, and "N" is the C terminal. Does that make sense? The note and dashed line depict a wire going from...

I have a Reznor tube heater in the barn, with only 20' of tube. In the photo below, it appears that the second (left) tube is cracked, though when I test it with a knife, it doesn't seem to be. Also, the connecting sleeve appears to be tight. Still, there appears to be products of combustion...

When you guys helped me build my dream garage back in 2009, one of best things I did was to install a Rotary SmartLift in-ground lift. I absolutely loved that thing. We sold that place earlier this year and moved out of town, to a property that has a Morton building I'll use as my shop. I...

I have 7 or 8, or maybe 9, if dad isn't out being a dog, who've taken up residence under my shed in the last two weeks. They can dig new holes faster than I can fill them, and find the aroma of mothballs rather pleasant. How do I get rid of these things, for at least long enough so I can prevent...

My new Eaton 5HP 80g compressor arrives next week, and I have some questions as I plan the wiring. Chief among them are if the thin "single slot" circuit breakers are OK to use for a 5hp compressor? I'm thinking of using this one...