Maintenance & Repairs - February 2007

It drips into a 2 1/2 gallon bucket and fills about once a month but it drives me nuts. Who is responsible for the meter? The utility company or me? Does it need to be replaced if it leaks water or is there just a small part on it I can replace? My house is circa 1905 in Ohio. The meter looks fairly new, however.

2007-02-04 12:04:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-04 12:00:32 · 5 answers · asked by squirrely 2

2007-02-04 11:58:29 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm restoring an old hotel and a lot of the glass exterior glass windows have what looks to be chicken wire embedded in it. Was this for safety?

2007-02-04 11:33:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

An evaporator fan was replaced about a year ago because of this problem. Now it is not freezing again. The evaporator fan stays on constantly now. Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong?

2007-02-04 11:30:05 · 9 answers · asked by Doreen A 2

2007-02-04 11:27:07 · 2 answers · asked by Shelby anna 4

It's about six months old. I noticed about a month ago that there was an odd musty smell throughout the first floor of the house that is permeating from the garbage disposal. The disposal does have a cap which I never really used, I just put it under the sink until it started smelling recently.

How can I correct and prevent this nasty odor? Thank you.

2007-02-04 10:23:01 · 8 answers · asked by ineeddonothing 4

When the flue and the doors are open we do not receive any heat in the house.

2007-02-04 10:18:43 · 6 answers · asked by mdjdk 1

anyone got a clue i would really like to know the reason?

2007-02-04 10:17:17 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have my deeds that show the Council own the boundary, they let it to a charity trust( a car park for a local village hall), and the deeds are silent on maintenance. They admit ownership but say there is no budget to repair it. My garden is now wide open to a car park, and I feel very insecure and a lack of privacy. How can I ensure they take on their responsibility by actually mending/replacing it. They say they will look into it......

2007-02-04 10:16:03 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-04 09:35:34 · 3 answers · asked by j.mcgregor1@btinternet.com 1

I am curious about how often people usually keep their carpeting in their house. I know some people keep their carpet until it has a few stains and some people keep their carpet until it has spots all over, 'traffic lines', etc.

How long do people usually keep their carpet before they replace it? How many years would you figure?

2007-02-04 09:26:29 · 4 answers · asked by q_and_a000 2

I have five water sinks in my house. All the faucets work but the cold one in the kitchen.

2007-02-04 08:41:15 · 5 answers · asked by Rick & Dawn 1

What can I put on the dry wall before I put paint over it?

2007-02-04 08:30:39 · 3 answers · asked by Ray P 2

My dryer is electric and I don't know how to tell if the electrical plug fuse is blown, I just know the dryer is not drying my clothes.
What would the electric plug fuse that's blown look?

2007-02-04 08:12:56 · 9 answers · asked by ladysportster06 1

The cold water pipes in my master bath seem to be frozen. The bathroom sits above an unheated (but insulated) 2 car garage. This is a new house and our first winter in it. The temp last night got down in the single digits and the windchill was sub zero. Is there anything I can do to get them working - the pipes are in the floor and wall where I can't get to them.

2007-02-04 08:12:36 · 2 answers · asked by janeenie 1

2007-02-04 07:52:43 · 6 answers · asked by Angela 1

My dogs chewed the bathroom cabinet on the corner and I live in an apartment. I don't want to have to pay for it when we move out. How would I be able to fix it to look like it hadn't been chewed?

2007-02-04 07:46:19 · 11 answers · asked by hype_32s 2

It is a York Diamond 80 and after the pilots light, instead of coming on, it most of the time just has a loud humming noise. When it does come on it only lasts for few minutes and whirrs off.

2007-02-04 07:22:00 · 7 answers · asked by Linda W 2

2007-02-04 07:17:36 · 1 answers · asked by rosebud 1

for the past two nights our fire alarms have been giving us false alarms and waking us up in the middle of the night at times like 3:25 am and 1:00 am. We have a firex smoke detector. the model is the 5000. Do you know why the smoke detectors are waking us up and giving false alarms? and how to stop it?

2007-02-04 07:13:14 · 7 answers · asked by iLY 2

We live in a hot, humid climate. The water pours off roof valley. We are looking for gutters, and didn't know what kind to get to carry off large amount of rain water.

2007-02-04 07:04:14 · 7 answers · asked by lighteningjack 1

Currently, I turn my heat to 58 degrees when I am at work and turn it on high a cpuple hours before I get home. Is this ineffecient from a cost stanpoint. Would it be better to have it on all day?

2007-02-04 06:59:13 · 9 answers · asked by Paulie Potts 1

The seal is fixed to the sliding door that moves and not the static door?? hope this makes sense?

2007-02-04 06:55:02 · 7 answers · asked by STEVE B 2

I recently cleaned my furnace & after connecting all wires & turning on I realized I had connected 2 wires wrong, fixed them & furnace still doesn't work. NO POWER, NO GAS, NOTHING. There is a red light that blinks 3 times. What does this mean. There is no code chart, that I can find. Can someone please HELP? I have 3 kids & it's COLD!!!

2007-02-04 06:41:38 · 17 answers · asked by Michelle S 1

The radiators on my system are about 30 years old & the bolier about 18 years old. I want to fit a combi boiler but have been told due to the age of my old system & I have to have new pipework & radiators, a complete new system. The engineer told me not to flush out the system as the combi boiler would break within a year. I have another engineer coming out who says flushing out the system is fine but I may need some of the radiators replacing but not the pipework. Who do I believe?

2007-02-04 06:39:39 · 7 answers · asked by jan P 1

I live in an apartment building and have already told the leasing office. The manager said he had the water tested and nothing came back out of the ordinary. Then he said he put tablets in the water to make it fresh...or something like that. But now the smell is back and worse then ever! Could they be running me around with answers? What can the problem be and what should I do about it?

2007-02-04 06:32:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

What causes this? Is it poor installation or the window itself?

2007-02-04 06:28:09 · 6 answers · asked by auto.jerry 2

Initialy, when both the hot water and central heating were both selected on, the hot water would heat up but the central heating would not come on until I moved the actuator from auto to manual. Called a plumber who changed the actuator (£110). Now when both the hot water and central heating are both selected the central heating comes on but the hot water will not heat up unless I turn the central heating off. Changed the thermostat but no difference. Checked all the wiring from the pump, actuator and thermostat which appear to be OK. The Plumber has given up and I'm on my own! The heating system is fairly new, the house was only built 4 years ago! Any thoughts?

2007-02-04 06:06:26 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I suspect people will laugh but I'm not sure what that air thing in the kitchen is called. You know the thing you turn on right above the stove; it sucks all the steam and humid. I need to know what it's called. Thanks =)

2007-02-04 05:55:59 · 21 answers · asked by A 2