My steam boiler has a 1/4" hole at the top. Predictably, all the tradespeople say it can't be welded, must be replaced. Also predictably, my new landlord doesn't want to replace this, so she's lookin
Since my tools are rusty enough, I'm thinking of using electric heaters in the garage. Can someone confirm my math here? Kerosene is about 135,000 BTU per gallon. Running a 45,000 BTU heater for 3 ho
Well if I take a jug to the station I can get it for $3.50, but I was being conservative for my precision, which was an order of magnitude :-) Just didn't think a heater that beefy would be so cheap
I need to patch the crumpled edge where the garage floor meets the driveway, it's letting wildlife in. What's the best stuff to use? It won't see car traffic, might see motorcycle traffic if it ever
things here? I'm about to kill myself and burn down my house? I should be testing with a multimeter or something? Well, if you DON'T test with a multimeter, you deserve to have the snot scared out of
maybe it couldn't get by the rings. So I can try soaking the pistons from the bottom. Someone told me to soak the cylinders in diesel. I'm wondering if there is anything that would be better, such as
Saving your shekels to pay for the soil cleanup. The bills are high. :-( For me it's all about space. I don't care about looks, and in a fire, if it's hot enough to set the tank aflame, everything el
tie I had this on my Subaru. After a long highway run it would make the car almost undriveable, the shaking was so violent. It was a warped rotor compounded by a sticky caliper. The caliper wouldn't
I boxed in some basement windows in a very not-square house, and there are some gaps between the boxes and the casing molding that rests on the sheetrock walls, some as large as 1/2". The homeowner w
THat's great to know, I will likely go with that. Thanks! As for the rest of the responses, clearly I did a horrible job of explaining the issue :-) Here's someone else's basement and what I'm trying
(http://www.wel-cote.com/psshtm/quick%20fill.htm). That would have been good to use but I'd already bought the Minwax product. It's essentially Bondo but at 4x the cost :-) The hardener was white so
There's a house for sale here (MA) with a tall 3 car garage. I slow down and stare when I drive by like the slab was covered with bikini clad aerobics instructors. Only $505,000! jim Pete. He's a BSM
If you run it in the electrical conduit you'll get interference so don't do that. You can bury it with the right cable, a foot or two away. But the right way to do it is in a low voltage conduit (ag
The date was truncated...but I'm assuming 1920s from the plaster comment below. I have done this in a house about half as bad as yours. As much of a preservationist as I am, there are some things too