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Pier & Beam
Building a bathroom laundry room combination In a space formerly used as a golf cart garage. It is 9x22 and is located at the end of the garage. There is…
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Best storm door closer
Anybody know of a really good storm door closer? The ones that usually come with storm doors are alway a pain in the butt to adjust. Either closes too hard…
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Removing scratches from glass
While doing some minor fixup work, I was given an 18" x 30" piece of 3/8" thick glass. I want to add it to a coffee table but it has…
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Laminate floor buckled
My neighbor asked me to come over and look at his floor. He showed me where his self-installed flooring had buckled in front of the return air vent. My best…
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Vinyl Doors
Did the standards on exterior doors change? Every exterior door I ever installed had a small angle on the outer edge of the door (lockside) to make it easy to close…
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Widening a concrete step
I am getting ready to widen a concrete step inside a garage that is being converted to a room. I am thinking of adding a few dowels out of rebar…
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Split Brick repair
I am doing some repairs on a rental unit and there are several cracked bricks on one side. They are lined up top to bottom (2/3 anyway). I know that…
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Drywall texture
My daughter owns a home in Europe. When they wanted to repair some of the plaster they were able to by a product that is very thin, almost see through.…
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Painter didn’t show, how much
should I add to be fair. I was trimming out a rent house after water damage. The painter failed to show two days and the owner is out of town,…
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Floor Beam leveler
Here is a link in case you call these something else: http://www.strongtie.com/products/connectors/j-jp.html I have a repair to make. The house sits on a concrete beam about six inches wide. For about 5'…