Recent content by Coach606

batt insulation What about just buying some batt insulation and tacking it on with nails in the space between the studs? That stuff is okay outdoors, right? Again, this is under a porch so it's not going to get direct weather. I researched a few of the 2 part systems. Their pretty...

The previous owners of my house turned the three season porch into an all season porch. Unfortunately, there is no insulation under the maple flooring. underneath the floor is a stairway from the walkout basement. Every winter the floor feels ice cold and that area of the house won't stay...

slope? Nothing has happened to gravity. It was hard for me to interpret your pics, but my guess is that the slope between the tub and the sink is messed up. I don't know how that happens as I'm sure you measured it when you did it. Are the dwv pipes supported? Clamped? If you feel...

hey Cal No one has benefitted from plumbing forums and pros willing to help more than me in this past year. That said, there must be forums where ONLY pros get together and DIY'er's aren't allowed. If you don't want to read a post from a non pro, try scrolling down with your mouse wheel...

He just got back to me and offered to work sunday. I'm still happy with his work. It was complicated, too, with curved, barrel dormers. he spent a lot of time working on them to get them right.

update I'm in the middle of it now. I hired a company who was the most professional in dealing with me and was a straight up drywall company. He worked with me on the contract and so far so good. They were walking on stilts resurfacing the ceiling and he got back to me in a single day about...

I had to cut a few access holes in the new subfloor in my new attic bath to make a few changes. I will be using 12 x 12" porcelain tiles on the floor. My contractor suggests that I need to add a second layer of 1/2" plywood screwed in over the first, then a layer of cement board or other...

My drywall company installed green board in my new bathroom ceiling. I've got a showerhead in the ceiling and it won't be tiled. My contractor insists that greenboard should not be installed in a ceiling because it will sag. Has anyone heard of that before? Is it really a problem...

Thanks... I got a reasonable quote, finally, but the guy was a bit flaky. A second company came out the other day and seemed like real pros. Just waiting for the quote. For $60-70 a board they're hired.

I have a second floor attic that we just dormered out with four dormers. It's not a huge space (we have a bungalow) but it's a fair amount of drywalling. We also want to resurface the ceilings of three rooms below that were damaged in the construction above it. I've called several...

There's no trap... There's no trap. I mean, it's not pictured in his drawing and I shoved a snake in there and it went three feet before hitting anything at all. I can hear the toilet flush with my ear three feet from the drain. I'm going to try to make some time to redo the shower pan. I...

No ptrap at all! Closer inspection suggests that there is no trap under the shower. It's hard to believe that someone who could build the entire bathroom group under the slab didn't put a p trap in. But honestly, I can't see any water in it at all. It just looks like an elbow. Here's the...

What I know... What I can see is that the group appears to be wet vented about three feet away from the kitchen sink above it. But you're 100% right about the water leakage. A year ago I popped the crappy plastic drain off to replace it with something nicer. It was rigged up with rubber...

Two things happened the other day: 1) huge rainstorm 2) my main vent pipe in the house was stuffed with a rag by a construction crew in the attic. And I guess a third thing, the basement shower started to leak sewer gas. I put a wet rag over the drain and the smell went away. The toilet...

how goes?? I'm not a plumber, but I did just complete a rough in for a new bath in my attic, which we're remodeling. And I was only able to do it with help from this board and a few others. So I'm just curious. Did you apply for a permit? I know I had to have a permit number (and pay the...