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I have a birds nest above one of my porch lights right where it meets the wall. I'm afraid to move it because it's little birds season, but I don't want these rear end in a top hat birds messing with my walls, do I just wait them out until the winter then take down the nest?
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Cable guy came today to hook up Internet, went to connect to ground and found this:  I'm getting my federal pacific panel replaced next week anyway, but I found a metal clamp at work to retie to the ground rod in the mean time 
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May 25, 2016 23:51
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Re: ant warfare, back in the rental house we tried both the plastic trap dome things and the gel style poison from a little tube and the gel worked super well, the little plastic dome things didn't do a drat thing. I've bought indoor furniture from wayfair without any issues, probably good stuff outdoors too.
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On a scale of changing a lightbulb to call a professional, how hard is it to replace a skylight? The interior side/framing is has seen better days from a leak from before we bought the house, we had the roof replaced as part of the closing credits when we bought it. I assume we'd have to pull up some shingles to get the thing out and then redo it?
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Our kitchen is over a vented crawlspace with a dirt floor and the regular looking insulation in it is falling off the crawlspace ceiling due to what I assume is moisture damage and crappy previous install technique. The kitchen is pretty drat cold in the winter compared to the rest of the house. Googling around appears to say that vented crawlspaces are out of date now and that it's better for moisture and energy efficiency to seal the whole crawlspace off and insulate the walls instead of the ceiling. This seems like something I could do over a couple weekends as a totally untrained home owner who hasn't needed to do much more than hang stuff up on walls, replace a wax toilet seal a few times, small drywall patches, and repaired a few deck boards in the past. Am I in over my head and should just pay for a contractor instead? There's no HVAC ducts running through the crawlspace, just electrical and plumbing/drains for the kitchen as well as our dryer vent from the basement utility room that's adjacent to the crawlspace and runs through it to the outside. I don't think I have any water pooling or drainage issues as well (and none were called out in our inspection when we bought a couple years ago), we've also done a lot of work around the outside of the house to improve that since we moved in. As far as I can tell, the basic steps are: 1. Rip out the old insulation falling off the crawlspace ceiling and trash it 2. Even out the dirt floor 3. Install plastic sheeting over the dirt floor and up the walls a bit to provide moisture barrier from the ground, overlap the sheets and tape 4. Foam board insulation on the walls and to plug up the vents in the cinderblock (no experience in installing this or installing anything onto cinderblock) 5. Spray foam gaps as needed Am I missing any huge gotchas? I did find this handy guide from the department of energy as well: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/54859.pdf I live in Virginia in case there's any weird building code things (do I need to get inspected?) Frinkahedron fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jan 20, 2023 |
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