/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2784304
How did you come to acquire this land?

>>1754780
posts like this make me despair for the future of humanity.

>>1735547
But he's right.

You and the OP are ignorant.
That jbox on a cord is probably going to a generator, they pushed in the wire tags just do they could have some temp power in portions of the house, as you'll also notice that the Mains aren't connected in the panel.

Completely normal.

>>1732298
One of the biggest draws on a home is the refrigerator, get a natural gas powered refrigerator.

They're really expensive though.

>>1733914
you either find the center on the wall, or go off-center by Thirds, Fifths, etc...

>>1733870
Take the wall, divide it by Thirds, Fifths, or Sevenths, depending on how large you want the pattern to be, draw a vertical floor to ceiling line at each, then at one of the lines begin marking 45 degree lines connecting the verticals.

Placement is all on you.

Do it all in pencil on the wall FIRST so you're happy with the finish result.

good luck.

I went fucking insane when I did a tile job in herringbone.

>>1730294
A 1979 built Sears Craftsman single stage snow blower I got for $5 at a garage sale years ago.

>>1730180
This is 10 levels of stupid.
If your family doesn't want the house, sell it, there's always somebody who'll buy it, fix it, and either rent it or flip it.

Hells Bells, I reno'd a house that had gone vacant for 16 years and flipped it.

Just... to intentionally destroy an asset. Boggles the mind.

>>1728413
Get some channel lock pliers, tighten the packing nuts, will only take less than 1/4 turn.

I've circled what you need to turn.
Righty tighty.

>>1726266
Nothing in this system is electric, at all, so the single bare wire is actually a CAPILLARY TUBE.

What's in the closet is a THERMOSTATIC VALVE controlled by the capillary tube

here's something to read to educate yourself on what your set up is.
https://www.phcppros.com/articles/7596-a-primer-on-thermostatic-radiator-valves

As for a fix, the actual valve stem on the TRV might be stuck due to gunk in the system.
Take the white piece of plastic off the fitting in the closet, at the very end of the fitting you should have a small nub of metal, this nub of metal is what the white plastic control actuates, use the flat side of a coin to push the small nub of metal in several times, it's spring loaded and SHOULD come back out when you release the coin, so push in, let it come back out, do that several times.

Reattach the plastic controller. See if that fixes it.

>>1720565
If your holes are for wire, a 4 foot long electricians drill bit is great.
Works in a regular drill, the holes will just have a slight angle/pitch to them.

>>1712040
>Those screws wouldn't have rusted into anything else? I'm just worried because it's on a slab.

the bolts SHOULD just be slipped into the floor flange.
it's a very loose connection.
toilet flanges can be either cast iron, steel, brass or plastic, depends how old your house is.
worse case is that the flange is fucked and you need to install a repair ring.

>>1712031
>What does this mean

It means the guy that installed the toilet used shitty bolts. Toilet bolts are BRASS, not fucking steel that rusts.


Get a dremel, cut the top of all that away without damaging the porcelain, go the hardware store, buy a new set of BRASS toilet bolts and a wax ring.

Lift toilet.

Remove rusty bolts from the floor flange.

install new brass bolts and new wax ring (after cleaning away old wax)

reinstall toilet.

youtube the shit if you get confused.

>>1711284

That won't look so nice when those plants are all dead due to the hot oil that leaks from the engine of my truck

>>1711014
A "table saw" like that is how you'd get the nickname of "stumpy".

Go on Craigslist or Facebook and find someone selling a modern cheapo table saw, it will be infinitely better than that horror-movie prop.

>>1707338
Winter time boots are
Thermal insulated and "waterproof" leather hunting boots from Cabela's with also their thick gortex/wool socks

working outside or in barely heated buildings when it 20 F with mud/snow, they're the only boot I've found that keeps my feet warm and dry.

>>1707492
A blind man could see that's all just temporary.
The mains are taped together and not connected to the bus bar.
The box is on an extension cord, and the house wires are only tucked in, probably all tied to a genny so that there's some electric lights and maybe an outlet or two around he house to plug a tool into.

I've done worse when shits gotta' get done.

Now take your lame bait and skedaddle.

>>1700265
a bit sloppy, but otherwise there's nothing wrong with that setup.

>>1698636
Roto-Rooter is to plumbing, what McDonald's is to a restaurant.
They both deal in shit.

I can honestly say that I've NEVER heard of anyone calling out Roto-rooter to do any kind of plumbing activity that wasn't shit related.

So, if you want to be in a trench at 1 AM up to your knees in shit, Roto-rooter is the job for you.

>>1699092
It's a hanging pot rack.

chains would suspend it from a ceiling in a kitchen, then there would be "S" hooks in the grill part that you can hang your pots and pans from.

you're welcome.

>>1698874
Americlap here, we call those "structural clay tile" and there's Century + year old multi-story homes and commercial building built with them.

But it all depend on how the things were put together, if they can support more load.

So without seeing a photo of OP's house, all I can say is Maybe.

>>1698690
>>1698696

It always amazes me how cavalier some guys can be with gas.

I'm especially nervous about the expanding use of flex SS gas lines, as one time at a reno job at a Golf Course McMansion where I was doing the finish carpentry on the staircase, I went down in the basement, hit the last stair down OVERWHELMING smell of gas, I bolted back upstairs and out to the garage and killed the power at the main, found the gas meter on the side of the house and shut it off, and called the Fire Department.

The FD guys got there, went in and waved magic wands, the gas had pretty much displaced ALL the air in the basement.
2,000 sq.ft of basement with 8 foot ceiling. Filled with gas.
Imagine the potential boom.

Well, turned out that one of the Kitchen cab guys, used one of those oscillating tools to cut the sheetrock so the cab would hand better,... BUT he also pretty much bisected a 3/4" SS flex gas line for the upstairs steam room heater.

Gas, IMHO, should only ever be in threaded black Schedule 40 steel

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