/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Once upon a time a little DIYer started having electrical trouble in his garage. Power left the breaker box from a single breaker on a 12-2 outdoor rated wire through the basement, out the foundation and under the driveway to the garage.

Breaker would trip and the little DIYer would reset and things would be fine for a couple weeks then it would trip again.

Little DIYer replaced every outlet, switch and the actual breaker with no change - any non electrician homos try and play with 12 gauge underground wire; not as easy as one would think.

Long story"short" and no other easy option the little DIYer ended cutting out a section of the driveway to find a nice short in the wire just outside the house foundation.

Moral of the story, put your shit in conduit because some moron will hit it with a shovel and you wont have to tear up your driveway 40 years later to pull a new line.

PS: not all concrete driveways are 4-6" thick sometimes they are 8-10" thick in the low spots.

PSS: concrete is heavy

PSSS: appreciate the labor involved with pouring new concrete.

The driveway was poured circa 1976 and one of the concrete monkeys nicked the line and the hot side worked its way through to the ground (hence the voltage on the ground) then finally the short got bad enough to make contact with the neutral and would trip the breaker a couple days after it would rain.

Not spamming for anyones business. google accurate molds, NOE bullet molds. I have a couple NOE molds and I'm sure they would be more than happy to churn something out.

Accurate molds has a very large inventory

>>1182001
Generic face plate will work just need to know the thread pitch or something that will fit your setup - #1 or #2 morse taper?

Sharpening depends, I've used the bench grinder/buffing wheel as well as a belt sander.

Found a fun easy project for your ash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Uobt-f2YY

>>1181957
Ash - all the beetle holes.

$20 lathe cant be beat, cobbled it back together and turned a nice little whacking stick.

Find a face plate and turn some little bowls and work up to some "boxes" Sharpen your tools, cutting into end grain is a PITA.

PS, I dislike the siding job where they simply jammed the siding against the shingles. All the debris behind the vinyl compounds the water problem. Some J-channel along the shingles would make a cleaner line and reduce the debris buildup

Fascia, can come in rolls to be bent to fit or pre bent sizes at any big box store. Cuts easily with scissors.

Could also get some drip edge under the shingles to push the water out further.

You are doing the right thing, just water control beyond that - tough to manage in that corner. Even worse if you are in a northern climate with snow/ice

Grind down the head on one side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QudZhdAJG_Q
skip to 5:08

How about some contact cement to stick some filler material that is cut to fill the low spots.

Handheld GPS user for 16 years or so. First started for hunting - mark trails, rubs, bedding, feeding areas and mark the main "people trails". Import all the waypoints to GE in satellite view to pick and mark ambush points. Done plenty of geocaching as well as benchmark hunting. I matched up my displayed GPS numbers with the ones from a well surveyed monument and the pin was between my feet. Hell come on over and I'll give you an old Etrex with the serial cable for free

twentyteen hours. too vague of a question and too many variables for any valid answer.

find the online owners manual

>>1155575
come on........

easy out should work better than the screwdriver/chisel

is that to a tub?

All I can offer is a cold chisel, some heat and lots of patience. If not tear the wall out, chop the old crap off and solder in new

Google ringdown circuit, Viking electronics has everything you will need. Had the old school inside the house phone guy install three "red phones" at work. 2 direct call a cell number and 1 direct calls an intercom extension.

>>1143498
hum, kinda looks like another annon eluded to as being an added on "sun porch" with a built in slope using a crooked level. I'd almost expect more damage if it was a sever foundation problem.
PS former owner of a crooked room house - drove me nutz and then we sold the POS

Is the roof above the crooked area sloped/dipped? The exterior photo shows what look to me as painted windows.
Good luck with the project, support the best you can and start ripping out all the crap.
Is one support wrapped with duct tape? I've seen some cobbled crap but that's outstanding.

>>1142149
come on, really

>>1137649
Build yourself a tool box. Whatever you do please get quality tools.

Get some slip joint pliers, metric and standard wrenches & sockets, a magnetic level (torpedo and 2 footer), a flat pry bar, putty/drywall knives, hammer, wire strippers, voltage tester/multimeter, 4' ladder, couple crescent wrenchs.

Never and I mean never let anyone borrow your tools - they will never come back.

There is a whole lot of WTF going on with your tank. Plenty of signs of past/current leaks, galvanic corrosion and the hot mess connected into your tank drain which I don't understand

>>1134478
Mortise lock set, can get spendy. measure the depth and hit the thrift stores or an old school locksmith. Only other option is to fill the holes and install a standard lock set for $30

Get a bunch of ferncos and good luck. May be better off patching, burring and keep fingers crossed. Assuming its the poo pipe or is it a vent?

Put one together last year for storage. This video would have been helpful prior to us starting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVphnD1F2ps

Pissing around with the individual arches was a serious PITA especially when the helper elves tightened all the nuts and bolts FIRST (no wiggle room).

Make sure you have the torque set fairly low the bolts we had were not very strong and the helper elves snapped far too many.

The kit was 8K and the slab was 5K.

Did not use any sealant along the seams and it does leak a bit so keep that in mind.

Wont shut off? Did anyone look at the thermostat? Most typical thermostats have a fan switch (on/auto/off) if its in the on setting the fan/blower will run all the time to circulate the air.