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So I've got the attached thermostat in my house. Lately, it's getting to where no matter what temperature you set it on, the furnace won't kick on until it's several degrees below the set point and then when it does it runs and runs and runs until it's anywhere from 5 to 15 degrees above the set point. Turning the thermostat to off won't stop the furnace during one of those heating cycles. Is this a bad thermostat or is it symptomatic of another problem?
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Dec 26, 2017 18:16
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DrBouvenstein posted:I've heard that's a terrible idea because there's no way to know how "clean" the ice is. That's generally true but you can buy clean ice, FYI
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Feb 21, 2018 18:45
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My house really needs a new roof, It's on the original 70's shingles and there's a few places where the decking is a bit soft and there are signs of repaired water damage inside. I know how to do all that, and it's on the budget for next year. Last weekend we had a hail storm so I went up there looking for damage with my fingers crossed, but didn't find any obvious hail damage. One thing I did find that was new since the last time I was up there was the attached picture. Is this something I can temporarily patch with a piece of shingle material slid under there? Would this need a more substantial fix than that between now and next year? Should I start rearranging things and redoing the roof this year?
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Mar 13, 2018 19:53
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PainterofCrap posted:Yes, they will. We'll depreciate the hell out of it & hold that depreciated amount out of the settlement until the roof's replaced, but it will be released once the repairs are completed. I admit to being pretty ignorant about insurance. I've got neighbors across the street who had a limb damage their roof, and when the adjuster got up there they saw existing hail damage so they are replacing the whole thing instead of patching it. On the other hand, reading about hail damage and insurance online, there's also the one going around where the guy says he called the insurance company, they came out, took a look at his roof and said we're not covering it, and if you don't fix it in x amount of time we're cancelling your policy, which is a bit intimidating.
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Mar 14, 2018 17:33
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PainterofCrap posted:That can happen if no damage is found but the roof is a train wreck -and- the adjuster files a risk report documenting the sad condition of the roof. I don’t do this unless a supervisor puts a gun to my head. Thanks for the skinny!
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Mar 16, 2018 00:41
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MrYenko posted:Shark Bite fittings are literally magic. The first time I used one I triple checked the shutoff valve and ran water to make sure it was actually pressurized. I couldn’t believe how easy they are to use. When my house's water supply suddenly dropped to a trickle because the galvanized pipe from the street to the house had corroded and had a stroke, I dug all that poo poo up and then headed down to local hardware store. The old guy asks, what do you need? I tell him i need 60' of 1.5" PVC, a new pressure regulator (shovel got the original) and whatever fittings necessary to tie the PVC into my under house copper. He says, what are you working on? And I tell him about my galvanized pipe and he says, "Oh no my friend, let me tell you and PEX and Shark Bite." And ever since that day I haven't huffed any more PVC glue.
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May 10, 2018 08:04
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:Great question! I was confused about that too until my girlfriend told me the locksmith put it in there so it wouldn't have an obvious gaping hole in her door. Man, I came so close to posting last night and saying that if I were you I'd replace the whole thing, because finding specific parts would be a pain in the rear end. This unhelpful post was brought to you by the letter P and the number 7.
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May 23, 2018 20:30
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An ill advised walk in closet renovation blocked access to the speaker controls. It's actually what they got divorced over.
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May 30, 2018 16:52
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:A little late with the response, I know, but we took care of the problem. There was a screw in the line. No idea how it got there. Thanks anyways. Literally in the pipe? That's a new one.
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Jun 6, 2018 14:24
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tangy yet delightful posted:Oh man, and I honestly almost posted "hey you should tell any people who live with you not to use the water if you have left it on" but then was like nah that's not needed My uncles were working on finishing out an unfinished basement. Steve told Louis, alright, time to start wiring in these sockets, go flip the breaker, so Louis went up to the garage, did so, and came back to the basement. They discuss for several minutes their plan of action, and then Steve settles in and starts to do the electrical work and promptly shocks the poo poo out of himself. He yells at Louis for turning off the wrong goddamn breaker, Louis yells back he did no such thing and then comes over to prove it and manages to shock himself, too. Louis goes back up the garage and finds all the breakers turned on and thinks Jesus, I've got to stop day drinking, and turns the breaker off and goes back into the basement. Louis and Steve argue for a few minutes more about the initial gently caress up, Louis convinces Steve that he's got it right now, and Steve resumes electrical work and promptly shocks himself again. At this point the fists are coming up and the yelling recommences which gets loud enough for my aunt, who neither one knew had come home comes running down the stairs to tell them 1) to knock it off, whatever they're arguing about because 2) something keeps tripping the breaker and she is trying to run a load through the dryer. Anyway long story short don't do electrical work without a multimeter.
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Jun 6, 2018 16:53
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BonoMan posted:Ha this kind of reminds me of my AC going out last year. It's after hours on a Friday and luckily a friend of a friend is gonna come by and check it. It's Mississippi in the summer... you need an AC. I had shut off the breaker for the living room lights because I was replacing a bad black box in a ceiling fan light fixture that had been making a horrible buzzing noise. I was about an hour into it when my wife comes along and says, hey, the a/c isn't coming on. So, I poke around with the thermostat for a few minutes and then call out the A/C guy, he pokes around for a while before declaring, hey, there's no power to your blower, you need to call an electrician. I pay him and go back in to look up an electrician and then have a sudden brainwave about what else might be on that ceiling fan circuit 
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Jun 6, 2018 17:18
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Slugworth posted:Your main lugs (Google it to see what I'm referring to) are *always* live, even if you shut off the main breaker. Exception: during power outages.
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Jun 26, 2018 03:23
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H110Hawk posted:Except unless the lines to your meter are physically broken you have no way to guarantee they won't re-energize at any moment. Pshh, what are the chances? Go ham!
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Jun 26, 2018 03:54
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Drink it
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Jul 31, 2018 15:23
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H110Hawk posted:Can someone "check the work" here. He notched some studs (a forums favorite) and while most of them look like <50% I am slightly concerned with the corners. It's the plumber everyone in the area uses (including us previously), licensed/bonded/insured that sorta thing. Above the new pipe is a window. I've done better work than that on barns
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Aug 10, 2018 00:27
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Jerk McJerkface posted:One of my friends was a major sales director and product manager for Sherwin Williams and then for Benjamin Moore, and he assures us that BM is the best paint around. Interestingly, while it's nearly twice as expensive, you use so much less of it that it, since it covers better and is easier to work with, that it ends up not costing twice to do the same job. Oh, the sales director says it's good huh
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Aug 19, 2018 15:10
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Oh, I agree, just joking y'all
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Aug 20, 2018 05:11
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I'm going to have to dig up and replace my sewer line from the house to the street because root intrusions are blocking it at least once a year now. Problem is, the line runs right under the nicest part of my yard, any tips on preserving the grass and having everything flat again after I dig up that porous iron piece of poo poo and lay in an equal size PVC pipe?
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Aug 21, 2018 00:17
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The Dave posted:We used to have our clay sewer line clog up about once a year with roots then we started using Root-X and haven’t had it happened since. Delaying the inevitable but not really something I want to pay for right now. It's worth a shot, I'm not looking forward to digging that bastard out. 
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Aug 21, 2018 01:28
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cakesmith handyman posted:Sounds like he didn't use heat proof paint. Either tell him he hosed up it or strip and repaint it yourself Who paints a stove top?
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Sep 2, 2018 14:01
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Gray, what a daring choice! Are you sure you don't want to stick with something a little less controversial, like say beige, or a slightly different shade of white? Kids these days don't even know where to get the blood of their enemies
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Oct 2, 2018 00:06
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z16bitsega posted:The previous owners "fixed" it by nailing a 2x6 over it (using two whole nails!), Bastards!
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Oct 8, 2018 02:55
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Personally I'd demolish a wall and reframe it to make what I had in mind from scratch before I ever worked on removing wallpaper again. That or burn the house down.
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Dec 3, 2018 21:09
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I've got a Maytag electric double oven. The lower oven has started burning the poo poo out of food. Is the thermostat and elements on one of these things user serviceable?
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Jan 19, 2019 18:30
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Thanks y'all 
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Jan 19, 2019 19:21
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Cyrano4747 posted:It’s not post 1980 i know that much. 60s iirc. For some reason that reminds me of a lathe I used back in my early 20s at a machining job. It was so old (government surplus) that undeneath the Pratt & Whitney nameplate was a 'Property of War Department' stamp. It probably came off a destroyer, hah.
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Apr 16, 2019 17:53
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Get a thimble and push the nail in manually. Eat your spinach first.
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Apr 18, 2019 01:46
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FogHelmut posted:The previous owners painted the brick around my fireplace with black gloss latex paint. How much of a pain in the rear end would it be to strip the paint from the brick? Burn it down and build a new house.
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May 4, 2019 20:54
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Bad Munki posted:Thoughts? They look really nice as is 
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Jun 9, 2019 00:36
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So we had some storms this spring and a little roof damage and the good people at USAA have decided to give me $$$ to reroof this house. Thing is, due to the global pandemic, I've got gently caress all else going on so I'm going to do it myself for $. In my hale youth I did several houses with three tab shingles and I've got a pretty good handle on the basics, but I'm going with architectural shingles on this house and I have a question: It looks like there's no getting out of buying the hip/ridge cap pieces, but do you have to buy the pre-made starters or can you still cut a shingle in half? Are there any other gotchas lurking?
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Apr 20, 2020 04:14
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PainterofCrap posted:We just had one of these roofs installed in December, and, yes, you have to buy the ridge cap. Architecturals are laminates and they don't handle cutting down for ridge cap very well. I mean a starter for the bottom row.
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Apr 20, 2020 04:24
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I've only done one roof, but it was architectural shingles, and the bottom-row starter was substantially cheaper than cutting shingles in half. Plus it came as a roll so you could just roll out what you needed for a given edge and make a single cut. OK I'm sold thx
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Apr 20, 2020 04:44
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Got the roof done over the last few days, only able to do it a section at a time due to nightly rain risks. While we were at i popped the trim off the edge of my carport because I suspected water damage behind it. Holy moly it was worse that I thought:    My dad has a sawmill and we can cut a pine beam whatever size I need, but does anyone have any suggestions on how to get that booger out of there and the new one in without bringing down the whole carport?
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May 6, 2020 22:07
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The truck that came and picked up all my shingles had to cut the corner while leaving. It has been raining and he left some ruts across the front of my yard. What's the best way to fix that and preserve the grass?
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May 12, 2020 17:30
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In the interests of restoring domestic harmony, I've decided to paint the drip edge to match the fascia. Is there a trick to painting metal? I've never done it and I don't want it to start peeling off within a year In other news I got that rotten beam replaced without destroying my carport or killing anyone. 
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May 24, 2020 15:15
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Clean it, sand it, primer, then paint. Sanding scuffs it, giving the primer more surface area to adhere to; primer then lets the paint stick. What grit do you recommend?
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May 24, 2020 17:38
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I'm not an expert, but my impression is that it doesn't really matter all that much. I'd guess anything between 60 and 400 would probably be fine. You're not really aggressively sanding it, you're just wiping across it a couple of times to get some scratches on the metal. Thanks!
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May 24, 2020 17:44
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HisMajestyBOB posted:One of the lights in an inside hallway went out and I went to replace it. When I took off the cover, I saw this: I had one of those fixtures crap out after 18 months. Otoh you don't need an electrician to replace it.
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May 28, 2020 13:57
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I've had a terrible harbor freight 8 gallon air compressor foisted on me. Some times it works, some times you turn it on and it hums for a few seconds and and trips the breaker, some times it chugs along for a minute, not building pressure before tripping the breaker. I've verified the oil level is good and changed it for fresh oil and it's slightly better now. Would it be worth it to tear it down and see whats up or is this more a toss it in the trash situation?
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Jun 2, 2020 13:30
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Due to corona, time I got and money I don't so I'll dig into it the next rainy day. (Tomorrow through next week, sigh) Today I've got exterior painting that has to take priority.
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Jun 2, 2020 15:31
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