Recent content by bud16415

Around here quite a few people have made their homes non compliant by removing their bedroom and living room ceiling lights and putting in ceiling fans. I wonder if any home inspectors ever catch that.

I’m more concerned on what took place in the attic with the “bypass”. If you had an outlet that was split and half was on a switched leg there were a few ways to convert it to both outlets on. The switch could have been removed and the two wires connected together with a wire nut where the...

My guess is they were fabricated locally. Some of the pieces may have been stock. For me the thing that makes me think it is custom made is the Vee shaped pieces in the middle and more so the back posts being made from the smaller bar stock and not the same larger size used in the front...

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A 100 year old house in the NE I have owned several for sure had lead paint on it at some point in time. It has also likely been scraped and painted 15 times and any paint scraped off was likely allowed to float down and go into the soil around the house. You might not want to plant a vegetable...

Sounds like you were at the place we were at about 3 months ago. The ice maker or water cooler dispenser started leaking. We bought the fridge used 10 years ago and other than this leaking it is still working like a champ. The only thing she really liked is the fridge filtered the water and took...

When you walk up to the sink both the hot and cold taps have water in them that is room temp. When you push the button the room temp hot water displaces the room temp cold water. At some point new water from your water heater reaches the pump and the pump shuts off. Unless it over shoots there...

One possible solution assuming the line under your neighbors yard is in good condition other than it has low points (bellies) that tend to collect waste and become a problem, would be to install a lift station / grinder pump on your property. My house is the third house outside the borough...

I agree the whole house units with the timers have their place. I was just at a doctors enormous home and in touring his basement I saw he had two of the whole house units and I saw they were powered down. He said they are nice but they run all the time and I’m heating all this water just to...

The system I was suggesting is not at all time dependent and doesn’t affect the whole house only the one sink it is installed on. You have a button most likely attached thru the cabinet the sink is in and you simply push the button when you want hot water and the small 120v pump under circulates...

There is another option and it is what I would likely do given what you have. There is a small pump you install under the sink and when you need hot water you push a small button you install at a convenient location and the pump starts and takes water from the hot water line and sends it back...

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I’m not a pro and there should be some pros along shortly. My non-pro opinion is it would likely work ok and as you mentioned you would put red tape on both ends to identify it as a hot leg. I would think it will depend on the device you buy if it requires 3 conductors and a ground. Things...

I bought a stud finder about 6 months ago and it will find wires and pipes pretty well. All the years I have been messing around with drywall I never knew there were wide widths. I see it even comes 36” wide. Having never used wider tape I can’t say how much strength it might add from...

The reason for the dimples is they provide a space for the water to enter the trench. I assume they cut the old floor out away from the wall and dug down and laid tile and added gravel and then recapped the floor over to the wall. If they had just run the vapor barrier down below the floor the...