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I want to connect smart Sonoff switch to lamp with physical on-off switch I want these all scenarios to work: 1- when phy. switch is off, I can turn the lamp on/off via sonoff switch 2- when phy. ...

Have a Trane xv80. Recently we have issue in furnace heater. It stops after a few minutes of heat call and fails due to highr limit device failure. I replaced the high limit switch recently. It is ...

I have a house in the northeast and will be leaving it vacant for a while. In the past I have usually just left the heat on at a reasonable temp, maybe a little higher (62F) because I’d rather spend ...

I have a deadbolt where you sometimes can't open it, the key turns a quarter turn but doesn't seem to "move the deadbolt" as it were. Or sometimes the key can't even turn at all. It doesn't "spin ...

My house was built in 1940. I recently pulled up the floor and subfloor in the basement and noticed this basement pit. There was about 6 inches of water in the bottom which I drained. Below that is ...

My 1938 home currently has zero insulation (aside from a few fiberglass batts haphazardly tossed about). The ceiling joists are 2x4 (spaced 16 inch OC), rather than the more modern standard of 2x6 or ...

My Baseboard heaters will be working fine for a few days and then I will wake up with no heat. My landlord has to come and switch it back on or relight it in the basement but it was happening a lot so ...

We have two bathrooms on either side of our trailer. For some reason neither of the toilets want to flush. The back fills up with water, I flush and the water sits in the bowl and doesn't drain at all....

I need to create a non-standard shape of thick plywood (1+") for an extension to a kitchen island. Shape is something like this: ... the size is roughly 3ft-square, and the inside and outside ...

Basically I want to engrave letters and some symbols on aluminium box and fill them in using a paint, What paint should I use? As far as I know aluminium usually gets painted by anodazing process. ...

General Electric glass top front burner dual . Has worked great for years. Now, regardless of where the control knob is turned to, the burner stays on full blast. It does turn off however.

I am building a custom shelving unit that will sit over an inconveniently located floor vent/diffuser. My thought is to raise the bottom shelf up on stubby legs so that it does not block the vent. The ...

I need to poke a window in a thick brick wall in a basement carrying the rest of the also brick house above it (2 floors above + roof). The basement wall is 3 bricks thick, each brick 4" wide plus ...

Here's a photo of my washing machine cycles: https://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae113/TravisJJ/IMG_6500rev_zpsjfv7utit.jpg For all cycles circled in pink, my washing machine is now pumping out ...

I have a two-pole arc fault breaker that is on its own. It’s used for a bedroom with one circuit used for a plug in wall heater. The other circuit is for the remaining outlets and lights in the room. ...

I’m installing a ceiling fan and the wires coming out of the ceiling have 120V from hot to neutral, about 45V hot to ground, and 45V neutral to ground. How do I find out why? And is it still safe to ...

A building needs to have its doors replaced: when does it make sense to replace with a slab and when does it make sense to replace with a pre-hung door? The doors need to be replaced because they are ...

I'm making a stacked laundry bay and would like it to be as narrow as possible. Are there minimum spacing requirements for the sides of the stack? I would like 2" each side between the machines and ...

I'm pretty inexperienced to say the least, so bear with me. In my basement, the previous owners stuffed a bit of the pink insulation between the wall and ceiling but left it exposed. I don't ...

I have a large entertainment center that needs to be mounted to 5/8" drywall with metal studs. The entertainment center weighs about 180lbs by itself. In addition, I'll have a tv flush mounted, ...

Recently I turned the light switch and my ceiling fan/ light flickered a few times and then turned on. The next time I turned it on there was nothing so I tried the ceiling fan itself and it came on ...

I have a mwbc with two 20A breakers with their handles clipped for common trip. Can I replace this ensemble with a single two-pole 20A breaker with just one handle? New panel in CA. I'm unsure ...

In trying to fix a leak in my shower head, I ended up replacing both the hot and cold stems for Price Pfister handles. First, I replaced the hot water stem, which seemed to reduce the leaking. But, ...

I have a mid 1970’s G&S furnace. The blower often (but not always) gets stuck in the on mode even when heat isn’t being called for. The only way to stop it is to unplug the unit. Re-...

There is this wall heater in my new apartment. This is the inside the panel. There is a hole in the middle. The bottom has a knob that only has "off" "high" and "low" modes. I cannot find ...

My house was built in 1982. I moved in over a decade ago but never bothered to fix the non-functioning wired doorbell. I’m trying to diagnose it now to see if it’s worth trying to fix or if I should ...

I purchased this nvr: https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=37_494&item_id=118292&sid=2hohf86s579pgvfmq9uj512vr4 and this ip dome camera: https://www.canadacomputers.com/...

I recently ripped off the old carpet in a room, along with the under-pad. The pad is in a decent condition, so I'm wondering it could be the re-used somewhere? Of course I would not use it again for ...

I live in a high-rise condo. I have noticed a few bugs flying or crawling around in the room lately. They look harmless, but I am not sure where they come from. They have a unique trapezoid shape. ...

I want to run electric power to my living room ceiling from a wall switch. I am trying to snake the wires and I drilled the top plate okay but also went through the attic and room in the process. I ...

In basement, nailed into ceiling joists. Could be old tile / ceiling material?

If you got 120 volts of current on each leg of a 50amp breaker but only 25v on each wire going into the oven outlet what could be the problem?

While running the dishwasher water leaks heavily out of the bottom front. I replaced the seal to no effect. I then noted that while the dishwasher is running there is a lot of standing water in the ...

I want to add a light in the stairway to my basement: Left side is a garage, right side is the basement with the other lights I'll need to tie into. However, I don't see how I could run a wire up ...

I recently installed some Nest E thermostats for heating only usage. They’ve been great so far, but my HVAC guy warned me I would likely run into issues without a common wire. In the newer part of the ...

Album link: https://imgur.com/a/I64sdOR By looking at the other windows that function properly this one white lever should cause two little arm thingies to pull the two brown tabs inward and shut the ...

I have some people living living downstairs, running a little portable heater all the time, so my thermostat is upstairs and my home feels so much colder up then down, can their heater be affecting ...

While replacing my window crank with a T-crank I noticed the screw that is holding the gear box in place didn't seem to be doing it's job. Upon further inspection it seems that it's stripped out. ...

Aside from the difficulty of finding the right fitting, is there a specific reason I need to connect my clothes washer to the taps via a hose instead of directly via PEX? I ask because hoses are ...

I installed new gas double oven using the same line from prior electric oven. Installed new 20 amp breaker and new 20 GFI outlet. The GFI outlet is tripping every time i preheat oven. Is there ...

So this is what the joint looks like. It's solid, but as you can see, the screws are exposed so they'll be rusting pretty soon. Also, the joint looks horrible. It's PT wood. What can I buy to make ...

Good day, I work in a paper factory and we have a heater directly behind an electrical cabin. The positions of the two must remain the same. The heater heats plastic packaging to 160 degrees celcius ...

We’re installing luxury vinyl plank flooring in our kitchen and the instructions inside the box say not to install underneath appliances which we didn’t know until we started. How hard and fast is ...

Last weekend I had to fix my leaking insinkerator under the kitchen sink. I bought a new badger 5 from home depot. Due to the leakage before, I put a plastic wash basin right beneath the old ...

i have a bunch of outdoors 2' x 4' open bottom concrete junction boxes. the question is, does each box need to have a ground rod installed and bonded to the ground wire? if so can someone please point ...

I have a 2FT Strip light and a 4FT strip light wired together in the kitchen. They are both T12 . I need to replace the 4FT one and I bought a cheap T12. However, I have to go back to the store ...

I installed new floor so the transition height has changed from one room to the next. I took off the baseboards first before installing the floor. The problem is I am not sure what's the cleaner, ...

I am a newbie with anything electrical so please forgive my ignorance. All of a sudden, my front porch light fixture stopped working. Changing the light bulb didn’t work so I’m trying to figure out if ...

Why does my whirlpool washer stop at the rinse, has a small noise like its going to start but doesn't? I already reset the motor and have already calibrated the computer but nothing has happened still ...

Can you replace just the lever of this model?