what did you do around the house today?

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Save you some time and money and remember when they start buzzing in a year or two call Leviton Canada and tell them they are all buzzing. They will send out replacements at no charge.

I like having them, but their quality is shit. I've replaced the main bathroom one 3 times in the past 5 years.

[RX_EVOLV]

So there are low spots in my single attached garage that cause water to puddle up after the snow melts off the car. Is it an easy DIY fix come summer time or do I need to hire professionals to re-cement / re-grade the floor.

[Swank]

Here's a bit of info I came across a while ago:
https://www.kompareit.com/homeandgar...e-raising.html

[raceman6135]

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<1STWORLD>

So, if anyone is considering putting lever handles on their doors with the square base (the part that the handle goes into and rests against the door itself), be aware that the bases can shift and end up not being level. And when they get out of being level, it looks quite horrible. At least if they were 45 degree you'd have a diamond but even being a few degrees out just looks "off" and random. Besides that, when they shift they tend to take paint with it which looks even worse.

So this past weekend I went around to about half the doors in my sub-1-year-old house and leveled all the bases. Pretty simple - loosen the 2 screws, level, tighten. But I'm really wondering why they shift in the first place. Are the screws stretching? Are they loosening? What exactly is happening will determine my permanent fix. If they are just backing out, then locktite should solve that. But if they are stretching (seems unlikely given the limited tension) then it would call for a different fix, like eliminating the base's ability to turn in some manner.

I WILL get to the bottom of this calamity.

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I've found that it's usually the temperature and humidity change that affects newly-installed door handles on wooden doors.

I replaced every single handset in my house and garage when I bought it (got rid of worn-out brass junk) and my interior wooden door handles required snugging up after a year or so, but the hardware installed on the metal doors (front and rear of the house, man-door in the garage, and fire door on my utility room in the basement) were still tight.

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So there are low spots in my single attached garage that cause water to puddle up after the snow melts off the car. Is it an easy DIY fix come summer time or do I need to hire professionals to re-cement / re-grade the floor.

It really depends on why its pooling. Is this a new pad the was placed poorly causing a bird bath? If so you can add material but it can look a little off.
If the slab has sunk or heaved creating a pool that can be fixed with slab jacking. I'd go with Poly for a number of reasons. Most companies are around $750 minimum and depending on how far its dropped it can go up quickly.

[BerserkerCatSplat]

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I like having them, but their quality is shit. I've replaced the main bathroom one 3 times in the past 5 years.

Yeah the Leviton timers have a terrible rep for noisy relays. I went with the Woods timers instead, not quite as good-looking as the Levitons but at least they're dead silent.

[90_Shelby]

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So there are low spots in my single attached garage that cause water to puddle up after the snow melts off the car. Is it an easy DIY fix come summer time or do I need to hire professionals to re-cement / re-grade the floor.

Drill a hole in the lowest spot so it drains.

[Dirty_SOHC]

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Drill a hole in the lowest spot so it drains.

How big of a hole?

[ExtraSlow]

[90_Shelby]

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How big of a hole?

I drilled about x5 3/8" holes ~2-3" apart.

[Maxt]

Setup the threader, converting my gas service to 2 psi with drop down regulators so I can down size the pipe run out to my new garage, running 3/4" at 2psig instead of 1 1/2" at 7"wc. Pretty big run, about 175 feet in total, ran 60' of black through the house.

[Maxt]

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I like having them, but their quality is shit. I've replaced the main bathroom one 3 times in the past 5 years.

How about the decora remote wifi switches, ever try them? I F'd around with it for about 2 hours the other night, it will not communicate, doesn't reset like the instructions say, the app can't find it... Its like their instructions are written for a totally different product...

[RX_EVOLV]

Well woke up to water dripping through one of my my ceiling lights in the living room. Almost a drop every two seconds. Turns out one of the vents on the roof is completely frozen over and snow melting in. There's like 20 inches of snow on the roof so spent the last 90 mins shoveling snow off the roof. Still need to somehow break the ice.

[TomcoPDR]

Trying to play nice guy today, filling up these dips.

[firebane]

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Well woke up to water dripping through one of my my ceiling lights in the living room. Almost a drop every two seconds. Turns out one of the vents on the roof is completely frozen over and snow melting in. There's like 20 inches of snow on the roof so spent the last 90 mins shoveling snow off the roof. Still need to somehow break the ice.

North side of my roof is pulling down the troughs. Will be going out with garden hose and hot water this weekend

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Trying to play nice guy today, filling up these dips.

Really with this warm weather, you're just hiding the ruts, lol.

[TomcoPDR]

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Really with this warm weather, you're just hiding the ruts, lol.

Think I made it worse. More slushy now

[ExtraSlow]

Had to pull some plumber out of the snow kitty corner to my place. Nearly got him out just pushing. Decides to save my back and use a tow strap.

[stealth]

Has anyone here ran a water line from their basement to the garage? Looked online and couldn't find anything.

Looks like I can run the line from the water header in the basement, through basement joists into the garage.

[nzwasp]

For what purpose? are you putting a sink in there.