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bought a newish home (2020, one previous owner) and the sink smells like dirt. did the baking soda/vinegar/almost boiling water thing but then started looking at the drain pipes and realized that the pipe seems to be sloping the wrong way. is the pipe sloping the wrong way??  the p-trap is to the left   also the ptrap appears to leak a dark black goo that ive resorted to catching with a tray KoRMaK fucked around with this message at 19:15 on May 22, 2022 |
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as far as im aware, dont have a warranty. guess i could call the builder and ask. sounds like fun...
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so, does the pipe need to slope the other way then?
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May 23, 2022 04:28
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okay, and what's the blue poo poo connecting the pipes, do i gotta get some of that? is there a youtube video that will inform me enough not to gently caress this up?
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May 23, 2022 04:31
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Or pay the professional $150 to do it.
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Question about engineered quartz - I'm looking to see what my options are to repair what appears to be some splotches that are left by what seems to be a food container that probably had lime juice or something acidic on it. The damage is only able to be seen at certain angles, so its hard to take a photo of but I managed to get two.   this is when you look straight on at it, there's really nothing noticeable  So, I'm wondering how I can get this fixed so it gets that quartz reflection back and doesnt appear to have some weird splotch on it. Reading up on manufactured quartz, it seems like it is super tough and hard and non porous, but it's one Achilles heal is acid reacting with the resins in it, so things like a resealer don't really apply here like they would for marble. If I had to guess, I think the path to fixing this is to polish/resurface it out, which would involve a handheld polisher, various pads (including a diamond pad) and then potentially something like this with a `snake revealer` and some other solutions https://www.granquartz.com/quartz-renew They say it's not a diy job... but, if I cant get a local quote to find someone to do it for me (which has been sort of hard so far) I may be desperate enough to give it a try and learn how to do this because I'll be having these countertops for a while... KoRMaK fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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Aug 20, 2022 16:19
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Shower hanging chat: get some small suction cup hanger hooks.
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i have a light switch that has started to cause my lights to flicker. the switch controls the basement lights, there's a switch at the top of the stairs and another at the bottom. the one at the top i think is the problem, flip the switch to on, and the lights don't turn on right away, after a few seconds they will start to flicker then turn on. i sometimes hear a slight sizzling sound from the switch how the hell do i fix this?
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facialimpediment posted:So there are usually far better electrical experts around here, but it sounds to me like for starters, you have a three-way switch that's hosed, or the connections to said switch are hosed. Don't let the name fool you, a three-way switch is basically just a weird name for a setup where lights are switched on/off in either of two places/switches. thanks!!
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I'm trying to figure out which arborvitae I have here so I can order a replacement. is this an emerald green or one of the other arborvates? how can I tell?   
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cleaning my bathroom sink and the black finish came off??? (not my pic but same thing happened to the sink in question)  recommendations online are to just replace the part with one that matches the finish i want, should be $15, but i dont know what the thing is called to find a replacement. so, whats that thing called?
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PainterofCrap posted:Season for it is coming... i dont understand what im looking at. is this some sort of variant of connect 4?
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I recently upgraded my tv, but the wall mount that is already anchored into the studs is about two/three inches too low, and is running into the cabinet below it. the holes on the mount that attach to the TV are also just out of range of were I need them - basically the vertical arm doesn't have a hole for the bottom screw of the tv vesa hole where i would need it to get the overall clearance i need to clear the cabinet below it. also it's an 80 lb tv. My question - is it possible to drill a new hole, with a hand drill and not a press, in the vertical arms of the mount where i need it? i don't know what kind of steel it is but it seems pretty hardy. im open to other suggestions as well, but id rather not move the actual wallplat on the studs since im assuming moving it two or three inches up on an already drilled out set of studs could be compromising to the stud?  
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VelociBacon posted:Can you take a photo of this? It's really hard to appreciate exactly what you're talking about.
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slidebite posted:I think I understand what you're saying, but just move the mount up a bit. You're not compromising the stud in the slightest with a couple of screws so don't let that concern you in the least. You probably have a bigger chance of doing something to the mount if you start putting holes into that where they're not meant to be. sounds good to me, i don't have to fill the unused holes with dowels or anything?
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Qwijib0 posted:A big enough TV hides a lot of crimes
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It seems my window probably suck rear end. When my neighbor grills or smokes a cigarette, they're backyard is near my living room windows, I can smell the smoke. Very confusing the first couple times it happened, i thought i was having a stroke I also can hear every drat car that goes down the street. How do i start evaluating their noise and insulation properties (kinda feels like I already did this anecdotally) and start looking for windows while avoiding getting ripped off?
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doesn't sound like the right code for this, but does this happen at all times of day, or just when its sunny? it took me weeks to figure out my door reversing was because the sun was shining on the obstruction detector receiver when i was trying to use it during bright times
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:
i realized a couple summers ago that mosquitos are weak flyers and my solution used the exact same box fan but blowing across me so it pushed any mosquitoes away. reaffirming to see someone else tap the power of the outdoor box fan lol
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Spikes32 posted:The hallway is the main entry to the house (the front door is behind the right wall) so if they were open they would block that door. I wonder if any barn doors are made of better sound insulation materials. Pocket door is probably the actually right choice , several other spaces in the house have them, but would be much much more involved to install. how do you install pocket doors on existing walls? is the trick that you don't, and instead you build new walls to accommodate the doors?
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buy an old bank, they usually come with one
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i would have no shame about hopping the fence to deal with it if that's the case. but, thats completely a personal decision im curious though if there are channels with the local municipality to resolve issues like this, especially when they start posing potential health concerns like with poison ivy.
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