The Evil Greebo

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May 16	comment	How can I open a desk drawer that is jammed closed by the stuff inside? Well, you could use a Sawz-All...
May 14	comment	Should I triple up 2x6, or 2x8 to help level a floor? What's your specific question?
Apr 30	comment	What could cause my oven not to light? I checked my glow burner with a lighter - started the gas flow and brought it close to the glow plug and the gas lit right away, so I don't think it's the plug. Also the oven does light sometimes, and doesn't others. It seems somewhat random. That to me lines up nicely with your #2. Coincidentally I ordered a replacement safety valve yesterday. It's due by end of the week, so we'll see how that goes.
Apr 29	comment	What could cause my oven not to light? This has not got a pilot. The ignitor is right at the main (only) burner. I think it must trickle a little gas, see if it lights, then proceed to the full flow.
Apr 29	comment	What could cause my oven not to light? Never mind I just read the first comment. DIdn't know they were supposed to launch a pilot light first... interesting.
Apr 29	comment	What could cause my oven not to light? It has a glow plug, Tester - no pilot light.
Apr 5	comment	What is this rectangular device on my apartment wall? We don't do no fancy spelling here. We spell words likes they sounds!
Mar 22	comment	How can I level my bedroom floor? Agreed, in that scenario shims are fine.
Mar 22	comment	How can I level my bedroom floor? If the joists are individually level but uneven from joist to joist, instead of a shim you should cut a strip of wood to the desired thickness and fix that to the top of the low joists, to avoid low points.
Mar 22	comment	How can I level my bedroom floor? Ok that makes more sense but still a bad idea if you're doing anything other than shimming the joists resting on support posts. Shimming a sub-floor leads to uneven pressure distribution along the joists. You generally can't shim a final floor finish.
Mar 22	comment	How can I level my bedroom floor? When you say it's 3/8 to 3/4 then 3/8 - do you mean that the underlying joists are uneven, or the subfloor is unlevel but the joists are fine, or that the floor surface height varies but the subfloor is level? As for roofing shingles, some people are idiots. Nuff said.
Mar 21	comment	How can I immerse a light bulb in water? You mean that is the goal. But since you're doing it yourself, and you don't know how to proceed, making this a "my first electrical" project is a great way to turn yourself into a corpse. Have you considered colored light-bulbs instead?
Mar 21	comment	How can I immerse a light bulb in water? You understand that it's inherently dangerous to mix water and electricity, right? As in - potentially fatal?
Mar 19	comment	How can I safely cut this pipe with an angle grinder? Not if the pipe is inside a narrow space.
Mar 13	comment	What could be causing this leak near my chimney? Can you get into the attic space and look for signs of water penetration?
Mar 4	comment	How do I replace this bathtub handle that has a plastic piece? There's almost certainly a screw down the shaft like Shirlock said.
Mar 4	comment	Can I feed a sub-panel from a sub-panel? Without the details requested by Tester the answer is a definitive Maybe.
Mar 1	comment	Can remodeling work around a window cause moisture / condensation problems? On? Or In, as in between the glass panes?
Feb 28	comment	Why does my shower head drip when the tub faucet is on? I haven't gotten back to it yet - the wall behind the tub is still open and renovations are on hold pending rebuilding our project funds. :)
Feb 26	comment	How can I remove a stuck screw that will still turn? How much space do you have between the walls of the hole and the circumference of the screw head?