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So I have a fully tiled shower I installed recently. I have a full tiled pan that I used the kerdi membrane system on. I plugged the drain and did a 24hr leak test and that was all good. But I noticed this morning that I have a pretty good leak now at one corner. It's soaking the underlayment...

The outlet under my sink that the disposal plugs into went dead yesterday. I pulled the outlet out and found that there's three pieces of romex coming into the box. On two of the wires the neutrals are tied to the outlet. The third neutral is wire nutted with two of the hots and the third hot is...

Preface for those who like to offer their opinion without reading the whole post: I have already regraded around the house and extended down spouts well away from the foundation. When we bought our house the back yard was aggressively sloped towards the foundation. So much so that during a...

I've been looking at cordless Dewalt, Bosch and, Hitachi framing nailers lately. They all seem to have so so reviews. People either love them or hate them. I'd like to get one and figured I'd roll the cost into my 12x16 shed I'm getting ready to build. Anybody have one? What are your thoughts on...

Looking to build a 12x16 shed here in the coming months. I'm leaning towards a simple slant roof. I'm in the Kansas City area so we don't see a ton of snow but it can happen 12-14" in rare years. I'm thinking about a 4/12 pitch built with 2x6's placed on 16" Centers. Thoughts?

I'll try to get some pics up later but here's the skinny. I'm ripping up some old nasty tile in our entryway on the house. The previous owner didn't remove the trim. They just tiled up to it and then grouted between the tile and the trim. I plan on pulling the trim, tiling to the wall and then...

I put this hot water heater in four months ago and it's already showing a lot of corrosion on the top. Is this normal?

They tout these blades as being able to cut just about anything. I have a 10" compound slider that is soon to be replaced with a nicer one so I'm not overly concerned with possible damage to the saw. I thought I might give one of these a try for cutting steel and aluminum stock. Any thoughts or...

I currently have an everlast Power Arc 140st dedicated to Tig and a cheap 110 flux core mig welder. I'd like to get something bigger so I can weld heavier material and also be able to do steel or aluminum. I keep going back and fourth between getting a newer larger Mig or a newer larger Tig...

What's the consensus on the best way to get a clean accurate edge when cutting 1/4 lexan sheet? It will have strait and curved sections. I thought about a router or trim router but I'm afraid it will melt and gum up instead of cut.

I busted out a patio this weekend and with no vehicle access to the back yard. I'd like to rent something with a bucket to scoop up pieces and drive them to a haul off in the driveway. The pieces average around football sized. Would a dingo with a bucket be able to handle this?

Picked this up yesterday off craigslist for $50.00

I was "gifted" a almost new 5000w generator this weekend. I know how to hook it into my panel but the issue lies in that I only have two available spaces in my main panel that I had planed to use for adding a sub in the garage. It would be very convenient if I could hook the generator in at the...

While watching guys hired by our company. I have seen several electricians install outlets, switches and plugs on 120 circuits while the circuit was hot. Is that common? I dont have the desire to try that myself but I was wandering how common that is.

I have some low spots around my foundation and pretty much I'd say 80% of it needs to be regraded. On the back of the house I tore out an old nasty deck which was built over a slab patio. The soil is quite erroded under the patio (I can almost crawl under the slab and I'm built like a NFL...

Anyone else build their own custom fishing rods? Here some I have built for myself and for others.

The countertop is chipped out above the dishwasher and, there isn't enough meat to comfortably attach the top clips on the DW to the countertop. Consequently the clips are missing from the top of the dishwasher as well. This is a rental house and I'm not going to replace the countertop as it...

We bought a new house (new to us) in back in March. I knew that the deck was going to need to be replaced soon. Last night I was walking out to the grill with a plate of cow when my left leg decided to punch through one of the boards and see what was below. :mad: As it turns out I will be...

I have a Craftsman 618 that was given to me. When I got it, it came with all the change gears, 4 jaw chuck, collet and draw bar for end mills, and some cutting bits. I added a three jaw, quick change tool post with indexable tools, boring bar set, drill chuck, live center, some hss bits and a...

We just bought a new house with a two car attached garage. Currently there is only one outlet in the garage. It is a GFCI that is on the same circuit as every other GFCI in the house. Kitchen, bathrooms all of them. They are tied into a GFCI breaker on the main panel. I would like to leave that...