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Here is a direct quote from the beginning of every show, building repairing or
maintaining, all designed with the blind in mind. That can be your house,
car, or swimming pool ETC. No matter if it
Yeah, I am still working on the basement stairs. Since the stringers were
short, I decided to just move them 3.5 inches straight up. This has the
effect of moving the treads further into the stringers. I chose 3.5
inches because it was roughly correct, and I had some chunks of 4X4 I
could
I had asked a buddy of mine to give me a hand picking out the lumber for
the basement stairs, and helping me get it home. I asked him to carefully
check the boards for integrity, are they straight, are they checked at the
ends. He assured me that we got some beautiful boards.
When I cut that
It is real tough to get lumber these days that isn't warped, cracked or
otherwise not what you want. In my town the best lumber can be had from a
local small lumber yard versus the local Lowes or Home Depot. This
especially holds true for 2 by lumber.
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Dan,
I hear you on this one. I usually just call our local lumber yard and have
stuff delivered. Never know what I'm going to get and have had to send some
stuff back in the past. I find this very frustrating to say the least
Al
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From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
sorry I'm so late on this.
Neighbors about 10 houses down, have put a 14x14 on either side of their
walkway.
My walk way is 25 on one side and 10 on the other. Theirs is centered.
Anyway, they've attached those poles to mounts they have into the stone,
and can release. They've hung screeen
1x3's have gotten worse and worse, what I last saw as 1x3's wasn't even
worth picking up as the splinters made me think it was poorly glued straw
and not lumber.
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Don H wrote:
It is real tough to get lumber these days that isn't warped, cracked or
otherwise not what
We had our air conditioning unit on the far side of the house, about 40 or 50
feet. It has had no problems.
We did have a little luck, the fellow who charged up the unit was also
installing a new breaker box, so he put the vacuum pump on our unit in the
morning and let it run all day and our
Hi All,
I have a co-worker that had to have some water lines coming in to her home
repaired because of roots growing in to the water lines. They had a friend
to tell her that if you pour a box of salt down the drain every month, this
will prevent this from happening. Has anyone ever heard of
I am assuming that you are speaking of a sewer line and not a water line.
Doing the salt thing doesn't help a lot. Copper Sulfate works better if you
can find a source for it. The best thing to do is figure out where the pipe
is cracked or broken and repair it. I once had a sewer line that had
Don,
This sounds like a good suggestion, but how would an average homeowner be
able to detect where they had a crack in their sewer line between the house
and street (or if in country septic system)
Al
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From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
No, it's the main water line coming in to her home.
Steve Shannon Cook
Today I married my best friend.
The one that I laugh with, live for, love.
October 11, 2003
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From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Don H
Sent:
I would bet they are the older clay drain lines. It isn't unusual for roots to
break through the pipes, and eventually they will need replacing. I've heard
all kinds of home remedies if you will for keeping drain lines open but can't
vouch for any of them.
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If it is the main water line coming into the house, you can only fix it.
Anything that you would dump down the drain would kill the roots in the
sewer line. You can't dump anything down the incoming water line, it
don't work like that.
--
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
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I owned a old home that had clay orange pipe for the main sewer line. Use to
flush a cup of rock salt down the commode every so often, it did retard the
root growth, but every 4 to 5 years I would rent a power snake and root the
roots out. So the salt isn't a cure all and neither is the acid.
I'm hoping they aren't talking about the incoming line. That is under a good
bit of pressure and you'll have a sink hole from hell in your yard...
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From: Dan Rossi
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:31 PM
Subject: RE:
ok, just what is a split minny?
jim in minnesota
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it way in the the main
water line coming into the house there would be evidence where the roots
are entering the line due to the constant water pressure.
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A split mini, or ductless airconditioner, has the compressor unit separate
from the cooling loops and fan. So, you put the big noisy compressor
outside the house, then run the freon lines to wall mounted units inside
the house where the fan is. You can have multiple units inside the house,
oh wow are they very spendy?
jim
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