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How can I reattach a trim board to my garage door frame?
I have a trim board detached from the garage external.
It is just decorative.
Can you suggest to me:
how to attach it back to its place
what products I have to purchase (I am in Italy if it helps)
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What should I do about a gap over a header due to short trimmer studs?
I found a doorway in a load bearing wall that was widened to a 6' opening without adding a header. The studs were just cut and trim added around the edges. I narrowed the opening to 5' and added a ...
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Safe to lower pony wall? [closed]
I recently purchased a house with a high pony wall that divides the dining and living rooms. The pony wall has a column at one end that I'm concerned may be load bearing. To make matters worse, the ...
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Drainback system for a cabin on piers
I have a cabin on stilts in Maine where the frost line is 4ft deep. I’m looking to make a system to supply water to the house that I could use in the winter. Seeing as the cabin will not stay above ...
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Replacing broken double-burner element in Bosch cooktop
I've got a Bosch cooktop (part number PKF645E01A) and the inner-ring of the double-burner element has stopped working (the outer ring works fine). I've opened up the cooktop and notice that the double-...
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How can I seal a hole in a concrete foundation wall for flex tubing?
During the electrical upgrade, several PEHD tubes were laid through a hole in the wall (60cm thick). I am not sure how to fill the hole - want to keep the water and the dirt outside. Insulation is not ...
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How do I manage trickle vents with extract ventilation?
We've recently bought an 80m2 apartment which has a communal extract system which continuously extracts air from the bathroom and the kitchen. Now the weather here in Norway has turned negative we are ...
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Moving a Crossbar in a barn style shed
I have a 12x20 workshop and it was shipped with this Crossbar that is in a very inconvenient spot.
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How to extract resin "fix" from a brass water pipe?
Some time ago I fell, and broken off my faucet. Manufacturer has already disappeared from the market so the spare part wasn't available. I printed it in resin, screwed it in using silicone and it ...
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Wet area around foundation
I've noticed when the weather is cooler (mainly in winter) this wet area forms around one of my windows near the basement.
This doesn't seem to be isolated to rain/snow but I don't typically see this ...
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Do I have to run the #4 bare copper ground wire continuous with out a break in the wire from the new 200amp outside meter/main panel combo to the 2 g
Continued from question, do I have to go from meter/main combo to the 2 ground rods ,then back inside connect to outside part of my copper water line,then back to the existing 100amp main breaker box, ...
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Replaces switches and outlets. None of the outlets are working
We replaced out our old outlets and switches in our kitchen. All of the switches work, and none of the outlets will work. The ones we didn’t touch all work!
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How can I fix a Rheem tankless water heater leak? [closed]
My Rheem Performance 8 kW Self-Modulating 2.54 GPM Tankless Electric Water Heater is leaking from the top of one of the tubes inside it where the top screws on it. Can use plumbers tape on the ...
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Air conditioner circuit breaker keeps tripping after new thermostat installation [closed]
Prior to installing the new thermostat, both the heating and a/c breakers were engaged and systems were operational. I turned off both breakers before installing the new thermostat. When I completed ...
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Best providers for buying fake house plants (large ones and small ones)? [closed]
Looking at Target in the store, their fake plants are noticeably plastic looking. They look nice for a second, but you quickly see they are fake and they lose that appeal. Looking at some of the ...
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Insulation in exposed beam kitchen restoration
I live in a Philadelphia row home and suffered a fire about 7 months ago. My whole house had to be restored due to smoke damage.
During the demo, I noticed the beams in the kitchen extension on the ...
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Best inline lamp switch for intended use
I am planning to DIY a lamp for my wife for our bedroom. Current idea is to have two different lighting features contained in the same lamp. Idea being your standard lamp(A), and am going to be ...
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Finding Bryant Heatpump model
I am trying to find details about a heat pump model that a contractor provided me a quote for.
The specific model is
Bryant Inverter heat pump 38MURAQAQ36B3 [High Heat]
I tried to google, bryant ...
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Raising TJI Joist
i want to raise tji joists in second floor washroom. 9 1/2" tji joists need to be raised 3 1/4". We want the tub to be 5" higher that the rest of washroom floor. There is no lumber like ...
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What is the proper way to protect house from raised patio installation?
I'm in the middle of a project where we removed a rotting deck (termites) and are in the process of installing a raised patio with pavers. The fill the contractor is using for the paver foundation is ...
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Connecting 14/2 to wire with 30amp breaker behind it
My camera floodlight lost power and I haven’t been able to find any switches or breakers to give it power again. I went into the attic, confirmed the wire was dead for as much of it as I could trace ...
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Shower puck light install
I live in a condo and want to install a shower light. Will it be an issue to install a damp/wet rated light in our shower ceiling with plumbing above it? In case if there is a leak from the above ...
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How to fix leak in toilet?
I’ve had this leak in my toilet for almost 2 years, I decided to try and fix the problem myself by using some waterproof silicone, but I’m worried I ended up messing something up and might have to ...
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How to repair, with some degree of strength, the outside corner of an internal doorway
I have a security gate that was mounted to a door frame, not by myself. Unfortunately there were two significant problem: it was mounted very close to the corner, and of more urgent concern, the wrong ...
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Can you help me identify the travelers and load
Are the two wires connected to the brass screws travelers ?
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Failing recirculating pump? Only one faucet slow to heat
10 years ago I had professionally installed a recirculating pump (Grundfos UP15-29SU) in our house. Essentially all hot supply lines were replaced by a single loop feeding all the faucets one after ...
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What is this valve for?
It's located on the first floor closet of a two story home build in late 1990.
I takes 5 turns to completely open and close and can't hear anything flowing when turned.
It does not shutoff water to ...
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How to repair these doorway drywall cracks?
There's a hurricane impact glass front door that has cracks along the top and left side of the doorway.
The corner has the paint and top layer of drywall peeled off and there some bigger cracks along ...
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Register for vent with almost zero floor clearance
I bought a house built in the US in the mid 70s, and the vents for the forced air system are mostly at the baseboard level.
The original vent covers were something like this, like a wall register but ...
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What is this type of ceiling called?
What are these type of ceilings called?
These don't have enough height to be called cathedral celling, are these just called exposed beams ?
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Range Hood Fan Wiring two switches fan and fluorescent light [closed]
I have coming into the switch area 1 black, 1 red, 1 yellow. Single speed fan switch and light switch that goes to ballast then to both ends of fluorescent bulb
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I’m putting in this range stove and the work in the bottom is confusing me. The previous duct work matches the last stove that was in there but now [closed]
I’m Installing this range stovetop and the previous duct work doesn’t align with what I need now and the duct transfer is about 1 3/4 inch away from the bottom of the cabinet. I’m trying to reroute it ...
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Typical Thickness of Silicone Between Countertop and Underlay
Instructions for installing a solid surface countertop call to use "one dab of silicone adhesive every 12" (305 mm) to 18" (457 mm) to secure". I have two questions:
How big is a ...
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How do I insulate this space with the electrical panel and fill in the space below?
We get a lot of cold air coming in from the area where the electrical panel is situated, in addition to the space below it.
I'd like to insulate and seal this better so this is not the case, but I'm ...
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AC constantly running and overcooling my house
My AC just will not stop running. The temperature outside has been fluctuating from super cold to around 70 degrees, so we’ve been setting it to 73 with the cool air on. The problem is, when we wake ...
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Oil Tank Replacement
I have been with Burke for the last 5 years. My oil tank recently started to leak (indoors).
Fortunately, I caught it in time, so no spill.
I called Burke, and their response was excellent. However, ...
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replacing a leviton 2 way rocker switch in bathroom 1 light 1 fan [closed]
new switch wired same 2 black one side 1 red other 2 white not used... light works on/off but fan on only... new switch does not have a copper jumper on the one side... how do I wire replacement ...
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When applying tape/mud, how do I work around outlet openings near the seam?
I cut a 12x16" access in my drywall and installed a new piece in this spot. There's a round 5" outlet/box (for a bathroom wall light) that is only about 1" in from the seam (in the new ...
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Replacing square trunk duct in mobile home
Absolute no experience with duct work. Central Florida.
Mobile home from 1974 has square trunk duct, no branches, about 50 feet long (732sqft home). There is nearly no insulation on the trunk duct due ...
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Boiler *might* have caused water intrusion... who do I call?
apologies if this is a super basic question, but this is my first time owning a home and not sure who to call.
So my boiler seems to be leaking -- I think this may have been happening for a while, but ...
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Gap between bathtub and underlayment
The front of our new bathtub is slightly curved, and the underlayment I installed is about 1/4” from the tub on the ends (I should’ve cut better in the first place). Is there something I can fill that ...
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My bathroom door drags when I close it
The door drags and doesn’t shut properly. The screw at the top of the hinge is loose. When I try to tighten it the screw just turns instead of tightens. I’ve tried putting toothpicks and wood glue in ...
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Double swing door
I have a door in a restaurant that swings into the kitchen and out into the dining room at the top is hitting the wall as it closes. Originally I had two hinges on the top and one hinge on the bottom ...
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What's the cause of my lights flickering, when they're on multiple breakers
All of the lights in my home are flickering randomly. At some times of the day it's heavy flickering and at other times it's barely noticable. Other appliances in my home don't appear to be affected ...
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2 thermostats daisy chained on 12g wire
I currently Have one Honeywell programmable thermostat, two wire hooked up to two baseboard heaters that are 240 V. The thermostat controlling these two baseboard heaters equals 3500 W max now what I ...
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Is there a way to check if your breaker box is grounded?
I've got an old home, built in 1945. I assume the electrical box in the basement isn't that old. There's a ground to the main water line entry. There's also this other wire that looks like a ground ...
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Light switch issue...what to do? [closed]
I was working on replacing some bathroom switches to a more modern single pole. I got the new switch wired and switch and fan work great but my hall light and dining room light have no power...there ...
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Gas stove do i need to convert it? Are flames normal
I just bout a used gas stove. They used it with natural gas I need it for propane. I thought it was fine but it smells like gas the first time I started it and there was flames coming out the bottom ...
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Goodman gas furnace runs for ~15 minutes then shuts off for an hour before igniting again
I have a Goodman MEC96 (GMEC960603ANAB specifically) that is having a shutoff problem. It will run once for ~15 minutes, after which it shuts off for ~1 hour before coming back on again. The status ...
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which ceiling fan rated box for engineered joists?
this might sound dumb, but can someone let me know if I am able to use any ceiling fan rated box on engineered joists (wooden I-joists) or does it need to be a special one? I want to replace the light ...
