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Do newel posts come in standard sizes?
A newel post in our house needs replacing, since it seems to have been badly abused by the previous owners.
Looking online, I couldn't find any that were the same size and shape as this one. The ...
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Tools/techniques to remove a long section from a wooden board
I am building interior wooden cills and from a 3m x 250mm board/plank (25mm thick) I need to remove a rectangular section about 50mm thick along most of its length, giving something like:
I have a ...
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How to attach a basement wall to weak bouncy joists above it? [closed]
Probably overthinking this. I'm putting up a 2x4 stud wall in my basement. It will sit on the concrete basement slab floor and is attached to joists above. The floor slab is in decent shape but I ...
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Working Load of 4x6 Pressure Treated
Adding a shed roof to my building that will have rafters 16" on center.
How can I find the working load of a 4x6 pressure treated beam that is supported by 4x4 posts 10' on center? I will also ...
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How to set a sole plate on a bumpy basement floor
I need to build a wall on a basement floor. The wall will need to support significant weight so I want it to be solid. The sole plate will be secured with concrete screws. The floor is a slab; it ...
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Skylight R.O. Square or level?
I’m roughing in the opening for two skylights on either side of my house. I used a laser to get a level line across the span of the house (to get both openings on equal level).
The issue, as you can ...
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Air Pressure Opens and Closes Doors [closed]
We have an issue in a restaurant. When the front door is open, back door in kitchen closes. When Back door is open, front door closes.
After reading, this is due from airflow through the place, and ...
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Floating desk strength
I have a built in floating desk in my new house which the previous owners installed. The desk I believe is made from MDF with 2 brackets holding it to the wall, also wood but not sure what type. The ...
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Adding a shelf in a laundry closet that can support a 150lb clothes dryer
I'm considering adding a shelf in our laundry closet to hold our 150 pound clothes dryer, as an alternative to the massive hassle (e.g. here and here) of moving a 300+ pound vertical washer+dryer ...
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Door won't latch or create tight seal after replacing weather stripping
I have an interior french door that opens to an unconditioned enclosed porch. I replaced weather stripping with the "platinum" rubber M-D "kerf" product from home depot. It was ...
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Cut half-depth recess into underside of ikea cupboard top
I'm looking to install a wireless charger into a chest of drawers that I have from ikea.
On the underside of the top of the chest of drawers I want to carve out 10mm of the 19mm thickness to ensure ...
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How to add a missing back panel through the inside of a cabinet
I have an open gap in the back of my kitchen cabinet drawer area that I want to seal up with a panel since there is a musty draft from the exposed old masonry back there. I also want to keep rodents ...
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How can I fix floorboard that someone sawn through?
Just moved in to new (to me) house.
Some of the floorboards were creaky, thought nothing of it as its an old house.
A couple of days after moving in I felt one of the floorboards sink a bit when I ...
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How do I remove the laminate/sun mica from my old computer table without damaging the plyboard underneath?
I have an old computer table, made of plywood panels with wooden sections here and there. It has been in the family for some time now, and I don't wish to discard it. I wish to remove the laminate / ...
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Cope, miter, or butt baseboard with a bead profile?
For the baseboard in the picture below, would you recommend coping, mitering, or butting the internal corners? The profile is about 7" high and .5" think. I intend a paint finish.
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How to recess baseboards in remodel
I am replacing my floors and it’s turned into a full remodel, with lots of skim coating my wall/ceilings).
I want recessed baseboards. Not very common but a look I really like. All the construction ...
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Efficiently flush-rip cut thick rafter tail
How do carpenters and other construction pros efficiently and quickly cut beams, joists, rafter tails, etc when they need to be flush with the members around them (thus restricting use of many power ...
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Screw Placement for Wall Hung Cabinet
I have to fix a top cabinet with no floor support to the wall.
What is the difference if I were to place the screws which hold the cabinet to the wall at the 4 corners inside the cabinet (diagram 1) ...
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Thinking about hiring a PE [closed]
I have a problem with the joists in my house. I have had several contractors in for estimates to fix the problem. There are estimates go from 3.5K to over 10K. They seem to have different views on ...
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Securing a twisted beam
I discovered this twisted underpurlin. Due to the twisting, the beam is sitting on the edge of the strut. I don't want the purlin to deform further, thereby falling down from the strut.
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Is particle board suitable as a subfloor patch?
I'd like to confirm that these missing bits of floorboard should have been replaced with some new sections of pine planks with the same thickness and grade.
In my new flat whoever installed the new ...
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What's a quick release fastening for joining two planes of wood along an edge?
I'm building a toy theatre out of wood and I want it to be easily disassemblable for packing down. If the front and sides are basically flat planes of wood meeting at an edge:
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Confused about locations of ceiling joists based on what stud finder found
I previously posted a picture from inside my attic showing the spacing of my ceiling joists:
Further to the left of what you see in this picture, I used a magnetic stud finder and marked off the ...
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How to measure this angle?
I have scoured the internet and forum and I’m certain I’m over thinking this, but how can I measure this angle?
I’ve tried using a level and find the plum, but the board will still come out wrong. ...
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Should I be disappointed about this quality of craftsmanship in new front door? [closed]
I recently had a new front door and doorframe constructed an installed in my Victorian terraced house. The old frame and door were ripped out, and a new frame and door installed. On inspection, I ...
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Are these studs actually structural?
First question on here so apologies if getting it wrong. I have removed old lath and plaster wall from under stairs to install cupboards but there is a lot of wood that appears to be structural ...
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How to replace bottom of a gable wall
I have a small gable wall that has my front door and a window. The roof comes out from the main portion of the house.
The bottom of the gable wall is in really bad shape. They used a 2x4 as the sill ...
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Circular saw drift
This seems to happen on every cut I make, whatever material, width or depth of cut
Clamp down guide piece. No lateral movement.
Start cut flat and straight. The front of the baseplate stays tight to ...
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How can I improve airflow from this cabinet-enclosed PTAC/HVAC unit?
I have a through-wall PTAC unit in an apartment building. It's enclosed in some cabinetry with a stone top. The stone top has a grille in it that is supposed to allow air to flow out of the PTAC into ...
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Bathroom Vanity counter top storage
I just assembled a Bathroom Vanity Base Cabinet (36 x 22). After assembling, I placed a separate Vanity countertop to test if its structurally sound (from a different company). It works well. I didn't ...
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Can I remove all floor joists in a balloon framed house?
I'm remodeling an old early 1900s home that is balloon framed. I removed the subfloor so I could get to the crawl space and run new utilities. I noticed the floor joists are in really bad shape and ...
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What should be done about this twisted floor joist?
I am doing some substantial refurbishment in my loft conversion, which basically involves moving a stud wall to make a bathroom smaller and a bedroom bigger.
I am in the process of lifting and ...
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Installing cabinet on a wall with a hump in it
I am installing SEKTION cabinets from Ikea and there is a hump in one of the walls. The adjacent cabinet wall is straight. The backsplash will most likely be subway tiles, I would like to go with ...
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Are these large horizontal wood planks structural in my 1900s home?
I'm currently in the processes of remodeling a home built in 1900 or even earlier. It has balloon framing and true dimensional lumber. I removed the lath and plaster on the walls and behind some of ...
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Is this frame ready to put a door on?
I've built a timber inner skeleton to a building and made a frame for a door. Which matches the dimensions of the opening in the internal wall.
See photo here:
The door measurements are 94cm x 204cm
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How do I install a panel fence on an angle to a fence post?
For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIIuhlcqSE0&t=292s
If you see how they install the panels to the fence posts, they are using some brackets on the fence post that they slide the ...
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Attaching shiplap to the back of an IKEA wardrobe
I've been asked to shiplap an area where one "wall" is the back side of an 8' tall Ikea wardrobe (technically it's one wardrobe and a portion of another). The back panel is flimsy 1/8" ...
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Help ! Weyroc / uneven floor needs levelling
we have had an extension built on the back of an old house and they fitted a floating floor with Weyroc top. We have bifold windows right across and want to put in flooring. Problem is that the floor ...
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How to fix wood shingle that's coming up?
Had the house power-washed today in preparation for an exterior paint job. Afterwards I noticed a couple of the wood siding shingles popping up a bit (see below). Presumably they knocked them out of ...
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are 1 1/4" screws enough to hang 3/4" plywood?
I have 3/4" furring strips over concrete wall. I'm putting 3/4" plywood atop the furring strips. This is inside, covering a basement wall.
Will 1 1/4" screws be long enough to attach ...
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Can I use a corner bead over wood?
So for context, I had a stack pipe replaced, then I had a carpenter come and build a new wooden enclosure (see pictures) to cover the stack and the other pipes bringing water to an upstairs bathroom. ...
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Safely and cleanly remove mirror stuck with silicone adhesive from wooden frame
I have a 27" wide mirror that has been glued with a silicone adhesive on a plywood frame that's about 10mm thick. The height of the mirror is roughly 36". I'm looking for some advice on how ...
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Carpet Tile for maintaining Squeak subfloor
I live in a larger two story 2000ft condo, where there are problems with carpet subfloor making squeaking sounds. After investigation, its due to loose subfloor screws or not being properly screwed ...
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How can I build a floating corner bench from 2x10 lumber?
I am looking to make a floating bench that spans a corner. 10' either way. I recently built an L-shaped block wall with steel supports embedded within the concrete. Now, I need to build the bench.
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Kitchen Cabinet Materials with lowest emission, Vocs, etc
What are the kitchen cabinet materials which have Low Air Gas toxic emission, (low VOCs, low formaldehyde) ? I see different material types: Solid Wood, Veneer, MDF, Laminate, plywood, metal, Melamine,...
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Carpet and Padding Type for Exercise and Floor Pressure, Seen in Hotels
I am doing exercise, light weightlifting, aerobics, and yoga on carpet.
I use exercise mat, however I noticed its not enough. What is good type of carpet and padding, that holds up to exercise ...
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Carpet makes Whistling Sound
My carpet is around 5 years old. Now its starting to make a whistling sound stepping on it.
I started doing Yoga/Stretching recently with a proper yoga mat. It requires lot of deep stretch which may ...
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How can you repair split wood that cannot be moved?
My goal is to install a new set of blinds in an existing window. It looks like a former owner tried to do the same thing and split the wood on the side of the window casing. Unfortunately the location ...
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Will wood glue hold on pressure treated lumber for exterior barn doors?
I have a bunch of 5/4” x 6” x 8’ severe weather pressure treated boards from Lowe’s and was going to wood glue them together and then trim it out with 3/4” x 4” pressure treated wood boards I have. I ...
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