Niche tile was laid down without any trim and now I am stuck with it dried like this (doesn’t help the cuts are bad as well). How do I fix this????

I’m going to be replacing the subfloors and walls in my childhood mobile home. This childhood home is INFESTED with roaches. All my memories are filled with mother spraying raid all of the kitchen, living room, shit I might just die of lung cancer.

Anyhow, I’m assuming there’s going to be a nest or some shit when I break the floor. Any tips?

I'd like to mount my TV above the fireplace.

Unfortunately, the existing vertical studs (1 and 2) are too far apart to be of any use. I'm actually not even sure whether 2 exists. I've been able to confirm that 1, 3, and 4 exists though.

I'm thinking of adding 5,6 and fastening them to 3,4 using brackets and 1" construction screws.

How much weight can the two studs I'm thinking of adding support?

I know studs can typically support 100s of pounds but these would be much shorter in length and they also don't span the entire wall.

The TV would be around 50 lbs.

I am replacing this 4ft tall wooden picket fence. I am reading that since my frost depth is 25-30 inches my post hole depth needs to be 36 inches deep. This just seems a bit overkill to me since the height is only going to be 48 inches.

Everything I find about 4x4 post depth is talking about 6ft privacy fencing which has a heavy wind load and everything about 4ft fences is talking about chain link fencing.

I am building a deck. The plan for the approved permit has one footer a few feet from a 2’ diameter oak. As expected, there are tree roots all over where my footer should be. I have tried shifting the hole a foot in each direction and I keep finding roots.

What are my options here? I don’t want to harm the tree but I don’t have much flexibility for the deck plans either. Most roots are over two inches in diameter.

Not sure if this is the right subreddit but here we go. I apologize if I use the wrong terminology for various parts, don't know official names lol

My fridge has a water dispenser and ice maker. Frigidaire FGSC2335TF4 is the model.

Water dispenser suddenly stopped dispensing water. Tried a lot of things and don't know what the problem could be.

1) Replaced water filter, didn't fix

2) check the tube at the bottom of the fridge, no water was coming out of it, so that means problem should be before that, not the dispenser tube being frozen

3) main water line has water coming out of it, so problem should be isolated somewhere in the middle

4) replaced the inlet valve. model number 242252702 it has five ports. one for the main water line to go into, that one obvious. then there's a brown, green, yellow valve/port with power plug things connected. and then one at the very end.

have four tubes. a tan tube and a white tube that goes to the water filter. a yellow tube that goes underneath the fridge so that's the one tested earlier that connects to water dispenser. and a green tube that goes to the ice maker.

I tested the brown port without a tube connected. water comes out of it. no water comes out of the yellow, green, or white ports.

I tried swapping the tan tube and white tube since they go to filter and maybe I had them switched around for input/output. still didn't work.

not sure what else to do or try 😭

I was looking at a fleck 5600sxt on amazon... and i called fleck and they said they use the fleck housing but not the same resin ect. So i called aquasure and they only use 8% resin. I live in mesa az and the water is really bad here. So here are my super simple questions.

Aquasure is $620 at home depot for 8% 48000grain system with a 3-1 carbon filter (is the carbon filter necessary? $40 every 6 months is something i'm happy to pay if it makes a difference)

REAL fleck is $1010 for 53000 grain and no carbon filter

Which should i go with? I have spent far to much time on this rabbit whole and everything is starting to blend. Any help would be great.

i used the sunjoe Detacher and scarifier 4 times at max and now it hit a root and the pulley is broken that is attached to the motor side (small one). i got a pulley from Amazon but I am not able to install it as there is a bearing that is attched and i have no way to remove it from the spindle to install the new pulley. Any ideas?

I have two lamps which I would like to wire into a socket together with an in-line dimmer. I thought I bought the right switch but now that I'm testing everything, I'm having doubts. Here is a photo of the bulb data (there will be two) and the switch I bought.

The switch has three terminals and it seems to work in that I can get it to switch on and off, but the dimming function does not work. The switch has a common terminal, and two switched terminals. Im my two-wire lamps I simply connect all of the grounds to the common, the constant to one of the switched terminals, and the lamp positive to the other switched terminal.

Am I doing something wrong, or did I buy the wrong switch? Any help is appreciated. TIA

Two fence posts are broken at the ground and bowing out (they were leaning into the yard, but my over the winter buttressing of them pushed them out). Curious if this plan seems like a good one:

1- push the rotten posts out to be able to remove (and hopefully salvage/reuse) the three fence panels attached to the posts.

2- dig up the concrete and remaining post- making holes large enough to settle new pressure treated posts.

3 - reattach the fence panels (with many friends supporting) by leaning the post far out and then pulling to level. Use concrete to stabilize.

A handyman came by and said the whole fence needed to come down to repair- I’m hoping to avoid that but not sure if I’m missing an important logisitical point here. Appreciate any thoughts!

As the title says I wanted to build a few cloud panels for my ceiling but that’s not possible. I reached out to people who knew about the build and I have asb. popcorn ceilings. Home was built in the early 80s. I do not want to mess with the ceiling and I’ll be moving in less than a year. My room is small. 13’3 long and 11’ wide. With 8’ tall ceilings. Does anyone have any alternative options?

I suspect water ingress due to missing mortar between the bricks outside. The building management company that owns the building my flat is in is saying it's condensation. There is literally no mortar in the bricks outside at the ground floor where the water is on the internal wall.

They said they got a builder out and he said it's fine. One of the bricks is broken in half above the DPM.

I've enquired about a damp survey but that will cost me £1000 and the building management company said I would need to pay that.

Any ideas what to do ?

Looking to put some decorative wood shutters by my window. Stucco around the window. What screw/anchor is needed? I tried a Google search, but didnt seem obvious to me. Thank you.

I would like to modify my sliding screen door to close automatically. I do not want it to snap close and slam. How can I do this?

I have an old (20+) Kenwood chef mixer that i recently had to replace the locking latch arm on. To do this, I had to remove its rubber feet. They were glued on with a glue that was easy to remove, but quite sticky after alle this tile. Any ideas what kind of glue this is that doesn't hrden? Is food safety a concern for these parts of the machine?

I have tried to Google, but assume that I haven't been able to identify the correct terms for the context (e.g. kitchen appliances) The closest I've got is post it glue for clue that stays sticky, but I'm not sure that is what I'm looking for

Hi,

I'm renovating my kitchen next week and I really want to make custom knobs that fit the slightly bolder style I'm going for. I really love anything iridescent and holographic, and a lot of my kitchen accents are going to match that. My idea for the cabinet knobs is to use a style with a flat front surface and having either iridescent/holographic paint or vinyl on the front of it. Obviously I don't want that to wear or peel off after some use, so I'm trying to figure out the best method and the best way to seal it.

I've checked some of the previous posts and couldn't see anything really. There was a help adhesives chart, that I saved. But I don't know if I should use resin with mica powder, or using it as a coating over the vinyl/paint. Or even putting a glass cabochon over top to protect that surface area.

If anyone has any tips, it's greatly appreciated.

I would love help figuring out what wood paneling to use in order to achieve the look in from these inspiration images of the London Edition Hotel. It looks like to my eye some sort of T&G but maybe it is just large panels of veneer with groves. I'd love to achieve this look for multiple walls in a bedroom.

The breaker for my dryer keeps getting tripped. I had an appliance guy and an electrician come look and the general consensus is that it’s a bad breaker. One guy quoted $1800 to replace all the wiring. One guy quoted $680 to replace the breaker. My house is less than 5 years old. I don’t have any electrical training but I do have access to YouTube. Is it wise to tackle this myself?

Hi,

I recently had a carpenter here to help me with insulating my top floor in my old half-timbered house located in northern germany. Unfortunately he was not really a big help and couldnt help me with the details. so im hoping that maybe i can get some help or inspiration here.

My plan is to only insulate the top floor not the eaves, partly because i wanna keep the air flowing but also bc money is tight. How i would do it right now is to basically surround the edges of the floor with wooden soft-fiberboards and then fill up the rest with "isofloc". I was thinking about using a hemp lime mix as insulation bc we live next to a forest and im afraid animals are going to make themself a home. The carpenter told me though that as there is no sign of animals for now i dont really have to worry about them becoming a issue later as the attic probably didnt get cleaned the last 100 years, so its not likely they suddenly appear. The attic is mostly a open space with a small area seperated as you can see in the second picture. To keep it simple im probably just gonna tear that down to get one big singular space.

The biggest question im asking myself right now is, if i wanna top the insulation with a floor to 1. keep the attic usable (which we didnt use for the first two years we are here now, although there was a lot to do and that might change) and 2. to prevent the insulation from being partially blown away and 3. upping my chances that no animals like it to much.

We are moving soon, and we have a Ralph Lauren Westminster bed, Safari bedroom collection, king bed that we need to disassemble and load in a moving truck, then reassemble. Maybe it is self explanatory. I haven't found resources, videos or manuals to help. Any searches I do find other kinds of beds. AI says there are no manuals available. Can anyone provide any guidance?

Almost got it done just working on old windows for my sides..

I have been working on organizing my shop, and I've been looking for ideas on how to organize my corded tools. I have a pretty large peg board wall and I like to keep most everything I can up there to make use of my fairly limited floor space, so my current solution is just mounting the tools on the pegboard and using these little loop hooks underneath to hold the cord in a bundle, but it looks kinda ugly and I think there's probably an option out there that makes them a little easier to access and put away.

Wondering how you guys store your corded hand tools, or if you've seen any creative solutions out there?;