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With the hot, muggy weather in Michigan, my home central AC is working overtime. Naturally the condensate drain is plugged so I need to clean it out. Of course the installers of the owners before me installed it in a way that it cannot be disassembled or blown out without cutting the PVC...

I have been touching up woodwork in my house now that my sons are older and no longer destructive maniacs (and they can now also join in the fixing of their damage ... yea!!). This touch up is mostly painting over numerous bump and scrape dings. Sometimes the wood underneath was compressed...

I have two older, high mileage cars (2014 Subaru Forester, 2000 Toyota Tacoma) and in the past had a high mileage Honda Civic (2000). In the future, for a next car, I might buy a plug-in hybrid type car (Toyota?). Due to age and long use, I do some degree of preventative maintenance and...

We started repainting doors and trim in our home using Behr Dynasty paint in semi-gloss in an off white color. Yikes. It has been AWFUL. Just on the 1st door, even with the surface well prepped and primed the paint does not go on smooth. I had my wife helping and she is a little slower on...

I replaced the shower/tub fixture in a combined shower/tub assembly. It was a very different configuration so I had to cut another hole pattern in the wall. So I bought some countertop laminate to bond a patch over the area to plug the old holes while drilling out the mounting for the new one...

I am going to put in a basement sub-panel. Walls are poured concrete and I will have foam board + plywood below. I want to put it in Position A in the sketch below but could also put it in Position B. A question for you more knowledgeable code hounds: Is there a reason the panel cannot be...

I live in the Michigan rust belt. Suspension ball joints do not last long here due to the temp extremes, rough roads (vibrations galore), and high salt. I had the bright idea of replacing previous worn out ball joints with greaseable models. So I thought I can keep adding grease and keep the...

I have a side by side frost free refrigerator/freezer. It has been collecting water at the bottom of the freezer. If I understand the design concept correctly, there is a weak heating element on the condenser that comes on in cycles and melts ice on the surface to keep the freezer frost free...

I am making a basement partition (2x4 framed, basement dry etc). I am going to sheath it with OSB sheets (1/2"). Basement edge/foundation walls are well sealed and have closed cell foam sheets covered by drywall (primed & painted). Edge wall sheathing and insulation is anchored by 1 1/2...

I own a house where the prior owners were, by my standards, extremely picky interior decorators. Many rooms are painted a bit different shade of yellow/tan and a few other colors in some odd optimization. Eventually I will repaint all close color groups rooms to common colors to reduce the...

Maybe someone here can help. I am looking for a pvc end of pipe plug (not the type to insert in a hub or threaded connection) for both 2" and 3" schedule 80 PVC and 4" cast iron pipes. Yes, I mean PVC here for drain pipes as I wrote. It is a special application for a high head sewer pump line...

I have an unusual application. A sewer pump with a long run (~50 ft with a ~35 ft rise) presently 3" cast iron sections anchored between piers on an outside hillside. The line has a few bends near the (low) pump end. Joints have been deteriorating near the bends and I want to replace the line...