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Can a surge protector prevent electrocution?

No, a surge protector will not. An RCD (Residual Current Device) or GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) aka ELCB (Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker) are the devices that can provide protection, BUT ...
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How can I clean cats' urine from my basement walls?

I assume you want to keep the cats either way. What I would suggest is a three-pronged solution Remove the carpet. It's just going to be easier to clean going forward. Sealed concrete is good, but ...
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DIY Solution to rental doors with no latch

Sounds like a good magnetic latch would do the trick. They can be gotten that are fairly strong where the cat should not be able to open the door but you could without much trouble.
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Stopping cat from opening corner sliding doors

I'd just stick a pair of magnets on the end of one sliding door, with corresponding steel plates for the magnets to stick to on the other sliding door. One on top, and one on the bottom. Magnet ...
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How to construct safe safer waterfalls for baby fish?

set the net back from the mouth of the waterfall in an area where the water is deeper and thus the current is weaker. be prepared to clean the net frequently.
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How to keep a window from opening too widely?

It appears that the regulation for the angle of the window is the distance between the mounting screws for the rails in which the brace slides. The ideal work-around would entail removing the bottom ...
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Stopping cat from opening corner sliding doors

The doors appear to be meeting at the inside corners when closed, as shown in this crude ascii art: ___|_| ___| Will one door go past the inside corner to fully cover the end of the other door, as ...
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How can I remove moisture and odor from wall insulation?

You’ll need to expose area, clean with bleach and let air out for a day before installing new insulation then covering area. Kind of hard to visualize w/ out photo.
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Stopping cat from opening corner sliding doors

The simple solution is to get rid of the cat. However, for reasons that are totally beyond my ability to comprehend, people just don't seem to be willing to accept that solution. An alternate ...
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Can a surge protector prevent electrocution?

TLDR: Make GFCI protection a top priority. No, a surge protector definitely doesn't do that. GFCI (called RCD in Europe) The single biggest help is going to be GFCI protection. How exactly to ...
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Fencing backyard on the lower side of a retaining wall

Add some planter boxes or some other pleasant looking obstruction to the 4 foot section. if you are not interested in planter boxes you could do something like a gas pipe railing I'm a gas fitter ...
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Would vinyl plank flooring allow liquids to leak through?

You can add an underlayment with vapour barrier, or just 6mil plastic vapour barrier underneath. Will protect the subfloor (wood) but not the vinyl seems. For occasional "accidents" this ...
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