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According to my research a good quality thermostatic valve is about $120 each, and without ripping out the walls, I would need one per fixture, for 3 or 4 fixtures. You can get non-thermostatic mixing valves for about $60. I could make a primitive mixing valve with 1 valve and 2 check...

My wife likes super hot water, never likes to run out, and insists I keep the water heater turned up to the maximum. Any time I turned the water down, she complained the dishwasher doesn't work as well or that we run out of water too fast. I don't mind having scalding-hot water available at the...

Embedding hardware is fine, but definitely look into heat-set inserts. It's very easy to just model a round hole and stick in a heat-set insert. It's an essential upgrade to your 3D printing setup IMO. You can also fit heat-set inserts places a nut won't fit. I often model fastener holes...

I have a hose bib right on the sidewalk in the middle of the garage wall where you walk past. There's not really a good place to put a hose hanger on the wall, because any 25ft hose coiled up would stick out in your way, and same with a hose reel. I've seen the collapsing hoses that get small...

I need some dirt. Not potting soil, raised-bed soil, not even, as it turns out, what they sell as "topsoil". I just need regular dirt, to fill in low spots in my lawn. I don't need a giant pile of fill dirt delivered by a truck, just a few cubic feet of fill dirt. I have several low spots in...

I want to put a wireless security camera pointed at my water meter so I can check it without having to go down to the end of the driveway and open up the meter. But I am sensitive to privacy and I don't want any of the footage or any of the info at all sent to the internet for any reason. We...

I don't want to epoxy it, or do polyurea or anything. Then I would have to do the whole patio. Which would be nice but I don't have the money. I thought maybe there was just something more simple you can brush on. Acid dissolves concrete. Which might work, but seems like a last resort.

It's just bare concrete. Is there a homeowner product I should seal it with? I only tried Dawn so far.

I should have figured lye is the answer. It seems like lye is always the answer to any material removal question.

I left a storage tub sitting here too long. What can I use to try to get rid of the stain?

Finally can stop mixing up my test tubes or tipping them over

At my job we are required that all the power strips or anything else we buy has to be UL listed. When I go to the store, I see about 2/3 of the devices aren't UL listed, and when I find the item that's UL listed, it's one of the more expensive ones. Somehow I think that if they sell them in...

The shelves are going into a 36" x 18" metal rack, so they will be supported on all 4 sides. The rack itself is rated for 800lb per shelf supposedly. It was the strongest rack I could find. It actually came with 3/8 particle board for the shelves, which I might use for garage sale signs because...

I need some plywood for some shelves. I might use them plain, but I will probably coat them with a combo stain+sealant product, because they are near a sink and will get some splashes, so a little bit of water resistance would be nice. They need to hold a lot of weight but I figure all 1/2"...

I'm in the market for 2 steel racks. They need to be 3 feet by 18 inches, maybe 4 feet by 18 inches. But they need to be strong, like 1000 pounds per shelf. Solid shelves are preferred but I can throw down some plywood myself if I have to. All the big box stores sell storage racks, and they...

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I think most everyone who buys an EV in my area charges at home. A guy at work has had an EV for 5 years and never charged outside his garage. I asked him how long it took to charge, and he didn't know his car's charge speed because he never waited for it to charge. People wouldn't go to the gas...

Pretty small, just for sealing things that almost seal already

I want to insulate around my load-center front panel and door. There's a ton of cold air rushing in around it. For my attic hatch, I bought some of the foam rubber weatherstrip at home depot. After a year or so, I opened the hatch and the stuff was completely flattened. It wasn't sealing...

I don't have any known MWBC...there's no double breakers, tied breakers, or 3-conductor romex running to the panel. It could also be a capacitor on one of the PCBs of the appliances, but I don't know why disconnecting the neutral would bother them...I turn the breakers off and have power...