Recent content by Leejosepho

Ten years ago I was in the process of getting an upper denture and a partial lower when my old-school dentist met the end of his days. I still had four upper teeth to be pulled and he told me to never let anyone pull the remaining six on the bottom. All was well with the ten teeth I still had...

Sludge accumulates at the bottom of the tank, not at the top, so maybe they meant to be saying the crust had been growing into the drain field. Either way, however, it sounds like the tank might need a deflector or output filter to keep that from happening. The goal is to keep both the sludge...

Yes, or just slip a cap over the top temporarily without cementing it to see what happens. When effluent goes into your septic tank, the air it displaces has to go somewhere...and hopefully you will find it vents up through your roof without gurgling a toilet or other trap somewhere.

Yes, possibly so, but sometimes a homeowner is allowed to do his own stuff simply because it is his own stuff. In my own case, however, I had an electrician pull the permit and do the riser/cables upgrade while I changed the panel so he would be the one calling the power company and getting...

No, any drain installed in the garage floor will ultimately cause trouble and/or be disallowed. Have your garage floor poured with a slope toward its own door out onto the driveway, then use a squeegee to push "snow melt and very occasional car washing" on out if it does not get there on its...

For around $20.00 or so ...

"Replace Big Pressure Tank with CSV and a Small Tank" http://www.cyclestopvalves.com/products.html

How many 1" sprinkler lines? If you have several, I would run the 1-1/4 to a manifold feeding them.

Since water does not compress and air does, the bladder tank simply contains a variable cushion of air to prevent short-cycling by making it possible for a bit of water that can be drawn before the pump starts. A large bladder tank can provide more of that than a small one, but short-cycling is...

As long as the line is well-strapped or whatever to assure it has no sags, that slope would not concern me.

I would split something out there to help protect my own property, but the electricians here will likely give you a more comprehensive answer.

I grew up in "Michiana" at the Michigan-Indiana border, but being a hermit at Bone Lake in Iron County, Michigan, was my childhood dream.

My wife and I had some trees removed a few months ago, and I decided to keep a length of "Louisiana BackYard Pine" for making a canoe for my grandchildren. I did not get it finished before some of them arrived for a visit last week, but we loaded it on top of the van and my son-in-law and...

I first tried Linux Mint 8 (Ubuntu-based) for a while about fours years ago and was quite impressed. Most recently, however, I am now in the process of installing a Debian-based version of Mint. If anyone still running XP does not want to have to hand away your checkbook in trade for a new...