It would appear the previous owner of my house fancied himself quite the general contractor. We knew something was wrong with the wiring, because we’d blow a circuit by doing something like making tea while a light was on in a totally separate part of the house. We’ve added 5 lines (things like getting the oven on a dedicated line), and it’s still not quite right.
We totally redid the kitchen last year, and put down slate tile (and that cool underfloor heating mat stuff!), and unwittingly found that previous owner/bob villa wanna be had run a live wire across the kitchen floor. We missed it by an inch when we were running the circular saw through the old laminate to start demo. That was close.

I still want to put in a half bath and water in my basement, though I realize that if I did, I would probably never leave. Finishing the basement was a project from 2 years ago, and it’s probably been the biggest return-on-investment deal since we bought the house, oh, 8 years ago. Sheesh, that was 8 years ago?

The states that use the ICC allow non-ventilated attics, and even in states where the IBC is used there are variances that are usually easy to get as long as you make clear the attic will be within the interior air envelope.

Also, there are ventilated runners that will work with spray foam application that offer the best of both worlds.

There’s a lot of fine woodworking skills required. They’re difficult to level, because often times the kitchen floor framing isn’t level at all. If you’re planning on having a solid surface countertop installed, be prepared to buy a six-foot level and a planer, because you’ll have to do a lot of checking, double-checking, and planing of your base cabinets to get them as close to perfectly level as you can.

The folks who installed our solid surface countertop had to come out twice because we weren’t in their tolerance for level the first time around. We spent a lot (and I mean a lot) of time planing off our base cabinets.

Older houses can have compression or solder fittings that have to be the most ornery, pain in the ass fittings I’ve had to try and take off.

Ba-dum-ching.

Sometimes a few of the links will become tangled up in the lever that is attached to the flush handle.

I guess you’d see that if you were pushing the stopper down every time.
Is the stopper, er, stopping just above the hole, or is it not really moving at all?

Sometimes the chain is too short and it pulls the flapper up too far, so gravity won’t pull it back down on its own.

Easy way to test this is see if not pushing the handle down all the way fixes it. Just push it enough to flush and see if it goes back down.

Otherwise maybe the arm on your handle isn’t long enough (so it pulls it back too far) or the flapper is binding at the bottom (try turning off the water to your toilet and manually moving the flapper, see if it sticks anywhere)

And if the stopper is really old, for whatever reasons they can become brittle and stiff and need to be replaced. They don’t always have to be that old either, maybe some materials are just cheap, or react badly to cleaning agents like the little clorox pucks people like to put in there.

it is spelled “d-i-n-i-n-g.” You do not eat dinner at a dinning table.

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/fuo/1439269825.html

My coffee table has had a wobbly leg, which snapped off while I was watching a recent Seahawks game with friends. I’ve been in the market for a new table, and it didn’t even occur to me to look on Craigslist.

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/fuo/1440113059.html

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/fuo/1441024128.html

LL should absolutely make a teen comedy! It can star Big Vin Diesel as Jeff, Hulk Hogan as Graham, and Wesley Snipes as Matthew!

The three will race across Europe, tracking down a very expensive bottle of wine wine! The climax of the film will feature an incredible hot air balloon chase! Yes!

and despite all logical fallacies regarding why it could never happen, got very excited.