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Extremely true, & a fact taken advantage of by most vendors. Educating yourself on what it takes to do a job is time well spent. One of my most frustrating problems is knowing what it takes to do a job & having some "professional" treat me as if I were totally ignorant. I have no idea how...

Had a nice single story house in Jacksonville. Two car attached garage at the opposite end from the bedrooms, it seemed fine. I built a two car shop out back about 60 feet behind the house. Nice shop, wall shaker heat pump controlled the temp any time of the year. I thought it was great, but...

Which one of your sensibilities did I offend?...... :headscrat

Depends on what you use the trailer for. I used to work with a couple of know-it-all rednecks. I was planning a trip & towing a trailer. They asked when was the last time I packed the bearings on my trailer. I told them either last year, or the one before. Both went ballistic & went into...

Very seldom. The sink farthest from my water heater is the summer kitchen on the patio. I put the pump under that sink & once in a while I get a little warm water when first turning on cold. Clustered within 5 feet of that sink are a half bath sink, & the sink in my bar. The few feet of pipe...

No one has suggested it yet, but consider solar water heat. I have an 80 gal. tank with a solar cell on the roof. Any time the sun is out it's heating water. Very small circulating pump & a control unit. The control unit monitors temp differences between the 80 gal. tank & the solar cell...

Remodeled & added a second story on half of the house back in 2006. Had a problem with the under slab plumbing, so had to re-plumb the house. The new plumbing went between floors, so over the first floor but under the second floor.... :dunno: While we were at it I added solar water heating &...

The freezer kept it cool enough to prevent tripping the breaker........... :)

We have a Ryobi 18V, 10" bar. At first I thought we'd made a mistake, but I quickly realized I was cutting a small branch with no support so it bounced away from the chain. Anything that's solid enough to get the chain to bite into cuts easily. The 10" bar is plenty for the small things we...

My point is that you seem to feel that you don't have a chance. Prices are too high, & wages are too low. Woe is you, how are ever going to get ahead........😢 When I bought that first home I probably made between $3200 & $3500 a year. Maybe $4000, but I doubt it. The thing is, it didn't...

Well, a few of us weren't "well established" when we started. I paid $15 (that's right, Fifteen dollars), & picked up the payments on my first house. I could have gotten my own loan, but that would have required more up front & larger payments. I did the math....... :dunno: My first wife got...

Not intimidating at all. I've sold a few & held the mortgage on two (I like collecting the interest... :) ). Find a good lawyer to write a contract that gives you the right to repossess if they default & do a reasonable background check. For closing almost any title company can handle that...

You know how much you paid for the house, plus how much you put into renovations & upgrades. Add all that up, do a little research on what homes in your area are selling for (you can probably look at your property assessors site online & see recent sale prices). Take that information & make...

The decision is yours, but my experience with jetted tubs is that they look good but seldom get used. We put one in our master bath back in '06. It got used a few times at first because of the novelty. Then for a while a couple used to visit & the wife suffered from severe arthritis. She...

Haul the trash away. Plant some shrubs around the area where the trash is, pave that area with quick, easy pavers, & put some patio furniture out there. Is there a second floor where that window above the canopy is? If so, change the window to a door, flatten the canopy, & make it a...

Well, that answered the accept or reject question. Good luck.

So far you've done the right thing installing energy efficient windows & adding bat insulation between the garage & your floor. If you watched the video ybnormal posted you may understand what I was referring to about insulating the walls of your bedroom. I agree with him, I would have made...

There's your answer! I live on a barrier island & have a master bedroom above one garage, & a large guest bedroom above another. Both have bat insulation between first & second floor, & fire rated drywall ceilings for the garages. Humidity isn't a problem. In your situation I'd check the...

I've been using Portfolio from Lowe's & H.D. for years. I got over the solar, & bought Portfolio LED. No electrician needed, it was all DIY. In probably 5 to 8 years I've had one light fail, but 2 or 3 destroyed by careless service people. They're easy to replace. The transformers mount...

The key is in the "Lumens" numbers. If you have other LED lights look up how many lumens they produce, look at the light pattern they provide, & you will have an idea of what the ones you're looking into will produce. 5,460 & 11,925 are both respectable amounts of light. The 11,925 will be...