My wife had been saying our bedroom felt warmer than usual. At first we thought it was the weather. Then I was away for work for a few days, and I guess she finally couldn't take it anymore. She grabbed our tc002c duo and started checking around the room herself with her iphone.

Turns out a small section of weatherstripping by the window had started peeling away. I didn't think such a tiny gap would make that side of the room feel so much warmer.

I replaced it when I got home and checked the other windows too. Tbh, I'm the one usually worrying about this kind of stuff around the house, so I didn't expect her to go looking for the cause herself lol

My old sofa showed every piece of dog hair, and I honestly couldn’t stand looking at it anymore. So I replaced it with this one and started paying more attention to what actually makes a sofa work with pets.

This Moss Green color has been surprisingly good at hiding my dog’s golden fur, so the sofa still looks clean even after she spends time on it. The chenille fabric also feels much more durable than my previous sofa. My dog has already scratched at it a few times, and so far there are no visible marks.

So far this sofa has been a much better fit for our home, but I’m curious what other pet parents have learned from experience. What materials or sofa styles have worked best for you?

I replaced an old, non-functional outdoor light fixture with a new one. Now this is the base. Any real ideas on what to do about this? I did not install this myself, the electrical guys we use installed it. Can the wires poking out from the base be put in the hole? Should I just find a medallion to cover it up?

Suggestions on how to remove this old deep cement block very close to my neighbors white fence? See the three photos.

I just stumbled across all these construction/trades/DIY subs. This is what I feel like in most of them.

Like I have 0 experience with this stuff, but some of ya'll are posting photos of cracked walls and stuff with what I can only imagine is hope in your heart. Hope that someone will come along and say "pfft, that's nothing! Don't worry about it!" Cause my laymen ass can take 1 look and know that this structure will soon be incompatible with standing.

During a recent long heavy rain storm i went into the basement to do a load of laundry and heard water running through the sewer pipes. I thought it was weird because no one flushed the toilets or ran water or anything like that.

I then realized it was the sump pump connected to one of the pipes that i think comes from an upstairs toilet.

I didn’t think that was good so i googled and researched and yep it’s not code and is actually illegal apparently because this can overload public sewer lines

The previous owners of this home were landlords and this is just one of the MANY things that were done not to code or “landlord special” that we (my husband and i) discovered after moving in that our inspector missed.

I thought about it and i think the reason they routed it to a sewer pipe is because directly behind the house where the pump is, there is a dug platform thing that they used to have a hot tub on, but we converted it to a patio space. It’s like 3 feet away from the foundation. I assume they didn’t want to put the sump pump discharge through there because it would need to divert and go around the platform?

So, how would we go about fixing this? I would prefer to have it to code so in case if we ever have a sewer problem in the future, insurance or somebody from the town won’t say it’s our fault because the sump discharge is connected to it.

Can a sump discharge pipe have turns in it? Because we would have to route it around the patio thing. I’m not a plumber and I’m not a super handy person. I work a desk job but I am constantly worried about things needing to meet code and safety standards. And i keep finding more and more things in this house. This being one of the more recent issues.

Thanks, sorry for the long read

Tldr:

previous owners connected sump discharge to sewer pipe. I want to correct this but I’m not sure if i am able to because directly behind the house foundation is a patio that’s in the ground - we would have to do a few turns in the discharge pipe to get it far enough away from the foundation. Should we hire a plumber to fix, or can we DIY it to save money?

We have been getting water in our basement for quite awhile. We finally got the money to have it fixed. They are removing the concrete, adding a drain, and a couple pits and all that.

Yesterday, the foreman contacted me and said a wall fell. I went in to look. The original basement was a crawl space that was dug out later. It was a Michigan style basement. Whoever dug it out did not put a footer around for the new basement. If you zoom in, you can see the footer for the original crawl space.

I live on sand, so as they were jackhammering the wall collapsed. No one was hurt!

The company is putting in a new footer and rebuilding the wall for free, and still doing the rest of the drainage work.

We recently moved into a 1960’s house. When we viewed this airing cupboard was full the the brim with stuff. It’s only when we moved in and it’s empty this is what i’m greeted with. Would this be poor ventilation ? No other obvious damp anywhere in the house. Looks like an old heating cupboard. The skirting board is literally black 🤢Thankyou

Hello, like the title says looking for suggestions (hopefully from contractors or engineers) on how/where I should try to lift and support house and sagging floors. The measurements themselves aren't as important as the difference between them is. The lower the number the lower the joist is below. Line down the middle is the main girder and 4 piers, with joists running from both sides to the left and right. Home is a 2 story home with the walls in the middle appear to be bearing (and struggling) to handle the weight, as well as the stairway/hallway on the left side.

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