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Looking at a friend's fridge that I discovered had a broken ground pin in its power plug
Fridge chassis was causing painful shock when touching it. I measured 120V from fridge chassis to ground. I ...
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I plan to build an occasional-use off-grid cabin in Northern Ontario, Canada.
One option for siding is to use plywood siding (aka T1-11, Smart Board).
The cabin would roughly resemble this, but with a ...
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A faucet in an upstairs bathroom got left slightly on and it dribbled water down the faucet body, onto the countertop, and onto the floor for 3-4 hours before being detected and stopped. Bathroom is ...
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I am trying to remove a cracked undermount sink but whatever adhesive was used isn't budging for me. From the inside of the sink it looks like more gray (hard to see in the picture, but the dust there ...
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I have a house with a [checks dictionary] Gable Roof. By eyeballing it looks like it's slanted at about 45 degrees and one side is approximately 6 meters (20 feet) long.
Since it's a pretty old roof, ...
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Two new 20A circuit was run to service a new office / rec room in a basement. There's 5 receptacles on each of them. The receptacles installed are 15A tamper resistant. On each of the circuits, one of ...
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I realized that the leak indicator of my water meter ever so slightly moves back and forth. This is problematic because I attached a magnetic field sensor to measure the water consumption (and use it ...
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So to continue my line of electrical questioning (and perhaps narrow down my flickering light problem), I took a look through the two panels in this house. There is a 200amp main service in the ...
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I just saw these for the first time today at Lowe's:
The advantages I can see over the crimp style are:
A single tool can work with multiple PEX sizes
That single tool is cheaper than a single-size ...
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My basement bathroom has recently been remodeled, everything was working fine for a few weeks, but now all of a sudden I am hearing bubbles in the toilet when I shower, at which point the shower drain ...
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I am renting a house that has beautiful wooden venetian blinds - that I can not remove or replace - but they are not very effective at blocking the ambient night light that is abundant on my street. ...
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I have a 3 way switch that was wired incorrectly when the switches were replaced with a different color switch. Is there a methodical way for me to identify which wires represent which piece of the ...
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My fire extinguisher is out of charge and I want to either refill it or buy a new one. Is it better/cheaper to refill it or just buy a new one? (Can I even refill this fire extinguisher?)
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I have a Gas Reliance Water Heater 1212. I found recently (in winter) there is a water dip through the relief valve into a 5 gallon bucket. Sometimes, it can fill the whole bucket. Sometimes, it has ...
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I started redoing my deck and discovered this crack (pic) outside of my home's foundation. The inside shows no signs of cracking and the foundation is covered from any weather. The home was built in ...
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I am cleaning out my crawl space so I can get it encapsulated. I was thinking of putting up foam board insulation on the foundation walls to help make heating and cooling the space more efficient. But ...
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I'm trying to turn a single gang outlet into a 2 gang outlet. I got the old outlet and box out and the new box in. Now l'm trying to figure out how to wire 2 outlets from the wires shown as well as ...
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