My wife wanted me to move a pile of pipes and other rather long outdoor items laying on the east side of our back yard. This is because the single side gate was next to this pile and looked pretty bad. I decided to place the items on the other, west side, of the back yard but that side of the house was engineered to accept flood water and pipe it out to the front street through a sunken pipe…
I have had a ThermoPro Thermostat model TP-55 for quite a while and have been annoyed with it’s readings being obviously off.
The correct bag would have cost about $45. The new bag, my daughter purchased cost only about $13. In just under 2 hours I had created a modification to the pool sweep that saved me just over $30.
We recently had a number of drain pipe problems occurring within a two month period at our two story home. The three problems seem to be from suspicious causes. Mike’s (our plumber) observations: #1 With new home construction, when plumbing pipes fail to line up, some plumbers force joints to come together. This lasts for a while but as the building ages and the plastic becomes less flexible the pipe gives way. Mike has seen this happen quite a few…
I went shopping for a small crescent wrench at Home Depot. I found a wonderful and rather clever designed pliers that would outperform just about any small wrench I have in my tool kit. Here is what I like about it: The jaws have a clever design that easily grabs any bolt size up to 1 and 1/2 inches. The jaws can open up to 2 and 1/4 inches for grabbing other items that do not come around to hit…
The customer complained that one of their bathroom toilet lids kept falling down. This is a real problem for men. I checked to see if the floor was level. I was darn near level but had an ever so slight tilt backward which should have helped the lid to stay up. It appeared to be a defective design. The only identification is inside the water tank: American Standard 1112 tank, made in Mexico. I suspect that this toilet came with…
