Discussion Forum
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Eliminating Receptacle
I'm building a window seat and want to elimate a receptacle (never used it anyway). One solution of course is to simply buildover the thing but then if somewhere down…
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Concealed Joist Hangers
I'm going to be building an arbor along the side of my garage. It'll be 25' long about 7' wide with probably 3"X10" arbors attaching to the garage. When I…
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Leaking soil stack
I have a leaking soil stack. Found out about it last weekend when we had guests for four days (this comes from the guest bath) and the ceiling started turning…
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Time Capsules
I'm curious, has anyone ever put in a sort of time capsule in a building they are building? More then just a date scribbled on a 2X4? I ask because…
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Underground Electrical Splice
I'm hooking up the power for a pump to a fish pond. Misjudged the distance (the trench is pretty zig zaggy to miss plants and such) and came up 12' short.…
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Straight Paver Pattern Part II
The saga continues. Some of you may recall my earlier thread: http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=108758.1&redirCnt=1 To recap, after the fight over the crooked field pattern, the contractor called up Monday August 25 and…
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Getting the paver pattern straight
I think I know the answer here but just want to run this up the flagpole with you guys. We're building a walk with 4X8 Cambridge brick-like pavers. The field…
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Interlocking PVC columns
I'm in the process of getting the columns for the house I'm building. There are 10 total. Six inside, 5' tall and four outside 8'-8" tall. I'll be using square tapered and…
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HW Flooring Expansion Question
I did a search for this question, but after viewing 150 of the latest HW messages didn't come up with an exact answer to this question. We are getting ready…
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Durock or Hardiebacker?
I'm building my house and am getting ready to do the laundry room/mud room floor. Teh finish will probably be some kind of 16"X16" ceramic tile. I'm looking at about 140 SF.…