I'm an average sized woman with an average skill set & strength. Am I crazy for thinking I can patch and sealcoat my driveway by myself? Is this a fairly simple job to do with the correct products? Any insight is appreciated!

A friend and I are doing a final project on shopping and its psychological connection to humans, the topic we chose is household products.
I have another week to submit the work and we haven't started, so I would really appreciate it if you could send me as much information as possible about my questions, it would be very helpful!
The questions talk about a customer who buys home products on a website:

1. Why does he really want to get it?
2. What does he want to stop feeling, which is currently oppressing him?

3.. What different beliefs does the customer have about household products?
4. What are his pain points?
5. What motivates him to buy?
I would be very happy if you answer as much as possible with detail even if it is only about some of the questions! It's really urgent for us!

My bathroom has a glass block window with a vent in the middle that has a warped and cracked frame and needs to be replaced. I thought that would be easy enough to buy and have a handyman swap out for me, but glass block vent windows don't appear to exist in the size I have. I've searched high and low and come up empty. I'm wondering if there's some other language or window type I should be looking for that I'm not aware of.

It's a standard glass block window vent that latches at the top and hinges at the bottom, swings down when it's opened.

The actual size is 11.75 inches wide by 15.75 inches high.

Hello, the dryer spins but doesn’t heat up. I cleaned out all vents. Does that mean time to buy a new dryer or is there a way to fix it at home? Any advice

Has anyone used wallpaper from spoon flower? planning to put on "knockdown" textured wall in nursery. which pattern is best for peel & stick? straight down or half brick? anyone use the "upload your own design" feature?

Getting ready for the spring time cleaning of the deck. On the past I've just used a mix of bleach and water and called it good enough. Sprayed the deck lit it sit scrubbed with a stiff bristle broom and rinsed it off.

Made the mistake of going down the rabbit hole and Im seeing some stuff about adding a bit of dawn dish soap and or cleaning vinegar to the mix.

Anyone have any tips or ideas?

I understand I can use a peice of paper or the tape method. The problem is, at the 6 feet long it's slightly more difficult to use the tape. What are some other methods I am not thinking of?

Thanks!

We live in a 1500 sq foot 130 year old house and are doing a lot of improvements. We currently heat the house with hot water radiators off an oil burner that is probably about 25 years old. We cool the house using window units.

We LOVE radiator heat and would like to keep it. Could we replace our oil burner with a heat pump and then use that same unit to cool the house with added ducts? What are the pros and cons of this type of solution and what are we looking at ball park expense wise?

I have 10x12 composite deck with a walkout basement and would like to cover up the floor joists/under side of the deck.

Can I use leftover composite floor boards and essentially make a drop ceiling by adding tracks on the outside joists and putting up floor boards (thinking less creaking when walked on)? Or screw in the floor boards right into the floor joists?

It’s purely for cosmetic reasons to cover up the underside of the deck. I don’t need it to be waterproof at all.

Is this a stupid idea? Any better ideas to accomplish this purpose?

I have a smallish tree I want to cut down. Maybe 10-15 feet tall. It's not growing straight and just looks like crap next to some tall 50ft+ massive trees. I can safely cut down the small tree, . As for the stump. I was thinking once the tree is cut. Just cutting down into the dirt a bit, it's uneven ground. I'm not worried about the chainsaw itself. It's old and almost definitely needs a new chain or just be replaced. So I figure cut in the ground maybe an inch or two on an angle to just get the remaining stump below ground level, and pile some diet on top. Would that be sufficient?

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Hi I have a home that was built in 1930. I noticed that in the first peak, its unused space. I also had a wall that I wanted knocked down when you first walk in my home. It was a walk in closet.

I knocked down the wall after finding it wasn't load bearing, then I got a camera to go into the ceiling of the unused attic to see what's going on. My 2nd floor by the way I rent out to and my tenants bedroom which would be the closest thing to this peak has no indication of an access door or anything.

I was debating either using it as an attic, even though I dont want a reason to keep more things, or I could open up the ceiling. So it would be high ceilings when you walk in, with exposed painted joists. I was wondering what your thought were on that. Maybe a window in the peak too to make light shine through.

Also, do you think there is asbestos risk from what you can see? There was no insulation when I took out the plaster/framing of the wall. The only insulation I see is that little strip in the last pic.

I converted to a heat pump system a few weeks ago and the system has been running fine. I don't even know what I'm supposed to look for when inspecting my heat pump other than changing the filters.

The company is licensed and insured, has a good reputation and the work was permitted. The county inspector said the work was good, no code violations. But how do I know they didn't cut corners and did a bad job? This was my first time signing a contract for significant home improvement work.

I have an acoustic panel that is about 20lbs and is 24x48 inches. I want to hang/mount it across the corner of a room, in landscape orientation. It came with corner z clips but you have to line all of them up absolutely perfectly or basically none of them will work. I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to hang this thing.

My bedroom doors got some paint peel off here and there. Can I use spackle and sand and paint?

So people have been coming over to me to draw their unfinished basement. I know the basic of revit and I can easily do a generic basement plan for people who want to work on their basement. I know a team of people who are very handy and they have exp finishing up basement/ plumbing(licensed)/ electrical (licensed). I am basically trying to set up a team but in-order to stamp and get approval my drawing, what would I need?

We moved into our home right before having a baby. He's been sick, with respiratory virus symptoms, constantly. Well, we just discovered our AC has been leaking into our flooring, mainly in his bedroom. Floors were damaged. When we pulled them up we found mold. Also found old flooring that had mold under it as well. Apparently the old owners had the same problem and tried to repair it before installing the flooring we got damaged. So it was wet flooring with mold, then layer of moisture barrier that had some sitting water on it. Under that was mold stained linoleum/vinyl flooring. There was some mold under that as well.

We removed absolutely everything down to the concrete subfloor, which we are treating with bleach.

We had the mold tested and it's penicillin and alternaria.

Can anyone share your experience with these molds? Did they make your family sick? Do we need professional remediation or can we effectively sanitize on our own? Tips for eliminating the problem?

Thanks!

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Can you tell when the ERV was installed?

This is the unit I had purchased and installed when I noticed the CO2 climbing quickly when occupied by 1 or 2 people. I had to install the unit horizontally due to the placement of the exhaust/intake on the outdoor wall. It does appear that there isn't a ton of clearance, but the picture makes it look a lot more crowded than it is.

what about the floor of an elevator? 25 sqft at max. the floor is plywood, and im trying not to raise the level too much.

I know to caulk the joints so thinset doesn't go through. any other considerations or just "no, dont do it?"

Odd question I can’t seem to find an answer to. I have installed in my second story a metal stair case connecting from just the wall to the ground. It’s old rusting and I want it replaced. However I don’t even know what type of company would handle this sort of issue? I don’t think it would be a carpenter. Any help would be appreciated.

When I shower the paint in my bathroom bubbles up in some big areas. When the room dries out the wall goes back to normal. I want to repaint the bathroom but not sure what to do about this.

The bathroom has no windows and the exhaust fan is not very powerful so it gets very steamy in there with my hot showers. And the walls have like a hundred layers of paint cause it's an old rental building from the 60's.

So I'm not sure what to do. Do I just slap my new paint on-top and hope for the best or do I need to use a primer? Is there anything I can do to fix the bubbled paint areas before I paint? Or is this just something I have to live with?

We noticed a few water spots on our ceiling. Not directly below a bathroom. And we had a roof guy come that did not find any issues with a leak, where do we go from here?

I have a small second floor balcony (4’x6’-ish) off my office in the 1920s house we just bought in January. The roof section it sits upon has just been newly redone and the railing is new, but the asphalt-y surface isn’t very pleasing to walk on for me nor my dogs, who like hanging out with me out there but refuse to sit on it.

I’m in upstate NY and we get absolutely dumped on with snow a few times a year, so I’m very concerned about drainage— what can/can’t I do? I considered an outdoor rug but I’m worried it would hold moisture against the roof and/or fly away in a windstorm (it also gets quite windy here). Ideally I’m looking for something diy-friendly as our renovation budget is going to less frivolous projects.

Hello! Planning a 12x10 build on a pier foundation. I want to sit the whole thing on a 14x12 square of black star gravel.

Once I clear out to the area and go crazy with the steel tamper , I’m planning on laying down landscaping fabric for weeds, then filling with gravel.

Would it be worth it to put leveling sand under the layer of rocks? Would it be functional and or save me on square footage for gravel?

Before & After Photos

Illinois area - This project took me roughly 2.5 months to complete and cost somewhere in the ballpark of $12k not including tools. The MVP of this project was my laser level. Greatest purchase I have ever made.

I did everything DIY Except for plumbing the sink drain with an ejector pump into my existing system and running a new gas line to the stove. I hired a licensed plumber to do this.

I ran 3 new 20 amp circuits with 12/2 wire. 1 circuit for the 5 lights and 2 outlets in the island. 1 circuit for the fridge and stove. 1 circuit for the microwave. Bending and running the conduit was not as difficult as I anticipated. I did have to use ~3ft of MC cable to run power from the wall to the back of the island for power.

Some issues I ran into included having to run a new circuit to the existing drop down lights. I found out that the previous owner tapped into a circuit from my upstairs kitchen to run these. I also had to install a similar tile in the area as the existing tile wasn't sold anymore and I had to fill in some spots the previous bar covered.

Cost Breakdown:

Paint & Supplies (for the whole basement): $750
Plumbing/Gas : $2,500
Appliances: $2,200
RTA Cabinets: $2,842.96
Counter Top: $2,652.50
Misc. : ~$1,000

Before & After Photos

As the title states. Located in Chesapeake, VA if that matters. Asking for my mom. I probably sound really stupid but I know nothing about this stuff 🫠

Hello! I have a quick question for the community around redoing a structural beam. Specifically, the home was built in the 1920s and realized that that were structural beams that sit on these posts that are not connected to a footing at all.

So we re-poured a footing and set two new posts with the beam sitting on the new posts. The challenge is that the post that they got was a bit too small/short, so they shimmed the structural PSL post with a small piece of PSL from another part. That doesn't look secure to me. what do you all think? When i brought this up, the engineer mentioned to me that they can take it out and replace with a 2x4 cut to size shimmed in there. Would that work?

Also, the posts are way too big comparing to the metal brackets they got. so instead the notched the bottom to fit the posts. would that work? seems like its unsafe as well.

Would appreciate any input from anyone here!

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I caught a mouse last December and only now found its old poops in a lower kitchen junk drawer. I still have active traps so there is no current mouse.

This drawer is made of unsanded wood and when you take it out of the cabinet there is a gap leading to what looks like the floor. It’s about an inch of a gap and has little poops in it.

Am I gonna need to tear apart this cabinet to clean in there? Or can I just seal up the gap and forget about what’s in there?

We bought our new-construction condo last August, it's less than a year old. We've noticed the paint on the baseboards as well as around door frames is all cracking. What's the fix here? I know houses need to settle a bit, but you can also tell they used the absolute cheapest paint imaginable in this home.

I had a handyman come for 4 different tasks today. 3 of the tasks were completed. The 4th however couldn't be completed because the measurements were wrong. It was to hang a door. Didn't know that the doors were different dimensions throughout the house, and the handyman only told me to measure a single door.

He is now asking for an extra $200 for the door because it was "special order", but has not given me the door. Does this seem fair at all? I don't want to pay the $200 at all, but I get the situation. The very least, I want the door I paid for.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, this isn't even to complete the work. He wants me to pay $200 for this door, and then an ADDITIONAL $200 to come back out to complete the work for an "unnecassary trip"