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In the remodeling project for our upstairs bathroom, my wife wants glass doors on the tub/shower unit. This old house (1915) that was moved to a new place 10 years ago must have been put together with too much moonshine. There is not a true wall or floor in the place. The tub/shower unit the I...

we are completely remodeling our bathroom in an old 1920 house. The bathroom walls are not square as pictured. Not sure what to do with our sink that needs to fit into the corner? I have included pictures of the vanity sitting in the corner. It is 1 in out of square at 24in .

I installed a new acrylic tub/shower unit in our upstairs. I took the wife out last night and gave instructions to my teens to paint a wall. They only partially cleaned out a brush with Zinser 123 grey primer in it and left it on the bottom of the tub. There is now a grey brush pattern on the...

W are remodeling our bathroom. We have moved the toilet. It has been a month-long process whenever we have had the time. We just installed the tub and have not gotten the walls or other fixtures in yet. When we removed the original plumbing we had to stop up the 3" pipe with Walmart bags to stop...

I am remodeling my bathroom from a house built in the early 1900s. All rough cut hardwoods. I am installing an acrylic tub w/surround. The floor where the tub sits is out of level by a total inch from one corner to the other. I don't really want to rip up the floors. Any suggestions? I am using...

Woke up to -25 this morning and no water... Put 10" of insulation around our pump in the pump house this fall. Put a 60 wat light bulb inside... Well... woke to frozen pipe this AM. I put a space heater in with the pump. How long do you think it will take 3/4 pipe to thaw with an ambient temp of 45?

I have a PVC water line in a barn that I have run heat cable under. Unfortunately, I was a little late on installing the heat cable and after a good freeze couple of the elbows are leaking. I will have to replace them. I got water running through the pipes, but the brass spigot I have at the...

I went downstairs to discover that a joint in the sewer line is not glued and is leaking onto my stuff. Not sure how I can repair it without taking everything out.

I have a tankless water heater. We had to run the vents 35' to the side of the house where there was no porch. The rise is better than 1/4" per 10'... And we used 3" PVC... However, because it has been below zero the PVC is freezing up on the inside of the pipe... Last night we had no hot water...

I had part of my roof replaced as it was sliding off. Where it met the upper roof there was a valley. Now that valley is leaking into my attic. There is a specific spot where it is leaking and I need to temporarily divert the leak until the roofer can get here in 2 weeks. I have taken a 5 gallon...