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My house was built about 1972. My front porch has (what I think) are "half brick" floor tiles that appeal to be regular bricks (with mortar in between the bricks). The bricks appear to have becomes porous and now accumulate dirt/crude and mold. I can pressure wash them with Simple Green &...

My wife has a wooden doll crib that she inherited from her grandmother. I would guess the crib is 90+ years old. My wife remembers playing with it as a child and thinks it is her late mother’s. I’ve attached a photo of one of the wheels of the crib. The wheels are steel. The “rubber” on the...

I’ve read all the older threads about these products but I’m going to start a new one. I live in the Deep South. Having a wood burning fireplace was fun at one point in my life but it isn’t fun anymore for many reasons. I’m currently staying up at a home in the Pacific NW that has a...

I have a large (about the size of a coat closet) gun safe that needs new lights. The safe has 110v wired into it The current lights are smaller fluorescent circular lights that I installed about 15 years ago (before LEDs were around). When I installed them I knew they were inadequate. I’d...

I have a wood burning fireplace that came with my 45-50 year old home. There is an existing gas pipe plumbed into the fireplace where a "gas starter log" exists. There is access to 110v if needed. With the problem of getting decent firewood, etc. I'm thinking of getting gas logs. Does...

Like the title says - I’m looking for overhead lights for my 2 car carport. Currently I have an older two tube 48” fluorescent fixture. The fixture sits smack in the middle of the carport and stays on 24/7. I keep the lights on mostly for security reasons but now that my kids are grown and...

My wife does the gardening and the pruning around our house. Gardening is very low on my list of fun things to do so I'm happy to stay out of her way and maintain the gear. My wife needs "military" grade pruning shears because she just tears stuff up. I've bought her what I think are all the...

Today I replaced the carburetor on my 12 year old Stihl blower with an Amazon “Chinese“made duplicate that cost $16.99. I educated myself on the University of YouTube and spent an a very enjoyable morning fiddling at my workbench without my phone pretending that I really could work on small...

I have a fishing/hunting camp way back up in the South Louisiana marsh. The water supply is gathered rain water off the roof that is collected in a cistern. The pipes are PEX and we use 12v pump to deliver the water to the shower, toilet, etc. we treat the water with bleach so do not drink...

I have a two car carport that has older 48" florescent lights mounted on the ceiling. I would like to replace these with LED 48" lights. Ideally these would have some sort of covers over them that would keep the bugs out. Any suggestions? I live in the south so we're dealing with high...

I’m moving two medium size upholstered chairs in the back of my pick up about 900 miles. The chairs will be in the open and exposed to the elements. I’d like to buy some super sized larger garbage type bags that I could put each chair in and then seal them up with duct tape, bungee cords, etc...

I have an "older" workmate that I repaired/remade thanks to the tips I received on GJ. Somewhere on this board I saw a thread on here about a "French Cleat" type of hanger that I could screw to the wall to hang my Workmate. It was fairly simple - three boards screwed together that sort of...

I need some "food grade" loc tite. I have a few applications where I want to use loc tite to secure screws/nuts that may come in contact with food. Mostly BBQ type deals and pot handles. I know the heat may affect the Loc Tite but I'm willing to live with that part. I don't know if Loc Tite...

I have two medium duty garden hose reels I want to mount. One is going into brick. One is going into Hardiplank. Suggestions on best way to attach them? thanks.

My son's guy friends (kids who grew up in/around our house) - all to seem to be getting married about now. We get the standard wedding invite that directs you to "The Knot" website which lists the mandatory "rice cooker", "cheese tray with knife", etc. Most/all of these guys will be buying a...

I have two older metal cabinets that hold small and mid size plastic slide out drawers. I would guess they’re about 18” high and 24“ wide - maybe 3-4” deep. I’ve got screws, washers & **** in them. I don’t have Tractor Supply size bins of nuts and bolts, I just have 40 years of left over...

I need to replace the overhead lights in my clothes‘ closet. I‘m going to install some 48” LED lights. My old (30+ years) overhead lights are the old style - 4 tube 48” fluorescent lights. This old fixture had an old fashion pull cord switch. (And no - I do not want to take the ballast out...

I’ve got a water storage cistern down at my camp that feeds the toilet. We catch rain water then use it to flush the toilet. The cistern is a large (200 or so gallon) plastic tank. it Probably held farm chemicals at one time. We recently had a hard freeze and some of the 1/2” PVC pipe froze...

Helping a friend’s mom. I’ll be Replacing two four (4) bulb 48” florescent light fixtures. These two fixtures are easily 20 years old. These lights are ceiling mounted inside two clothes closets. I’m looking for plug and play LED fixtures. I don’t want to screw around with changing...

Title says it all. Lost my sheath. Ideally would like a nylon one I could clip/sew in a duck hunting blind backpack. Thanks.