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I live in a semi-detached house where the first-floor bathroom is directly above the furnace in the basement. Both the...

I recently bought a very old house. I am concerned that some of the insulation wrapped around the pipes leading...

I have a water heating system in my 10-year-old house. Can I heat the garage floor by installing hot-water pipes...

I have a layer of insulation with a vapor barrier in my attic. I want to add another layer of...

The insulation in my basement runs only 75 cm (30 in.) down. I plan to finish the basement, which means...

I have an old brick house that has been stripped of all walls except the outside brick wall and the...

The previous owners of our 80-year-old house had put insulation in the attic. Leaky shingles on the roof and a...

A year ago I built a detached garage next to my house, with a cement floor and 2x6 construction walls....

I installed an addition to my house this past summer using rigid foam panels. The end result is that where...

How can I get rid of the dirty marks around my floor registers without getting carried away with fancy furnace...

My house was built in 1954 with brick exterior walls and plaster interior walls. The house is extremely cold in...

I clean the electronic air filter for my furnace regularly in the dishwasher, but it never seems to work as...

I installed a new furnace in my town house last year. Since then I have noticed that cooking odors and...

I want to use a wood stove as a primary heat source. Which stove gets the most heat out of...

My husband and I are going to buy a new house. We have not yet decided what kind of heating...

I am thinking about buying a house that is heated with a propane heating system. If I do buy the...

I live in a four-story split-level house. On the third floor the family room, office, and bathroom have wood ceilings...

We moved into a house where the floors are covered in varnish, shellac, or varathane. We do not know which...

I have some parquet floors that are covered with wax. I want to remove the wax and varnish the wood....

The hardwood floors on the ground floor of my house squeak when anyone walks across them. The underside of the...

I have vinyl flooring in my kitchen that is about seven years old. There are two large pieces with a...

I moved into a house whose previous owners had installed wall-to-wall carpeting. I want to keep the carpeting, but there...

There is some wall-to-wall carpeting on the basement floor of my house. The carpeting is glued to the concrete floor...

I removed a dirty old carpet that was left on the basement floor by the previous owners of my house....

I have wall-to-wall carpeting on both the first and second floors of my house. The carpeting is light in color,...

I moved into a new house where there are tiny pinholes in the grout between the tiles around the bathtub....

We have a stand-up shower stall in our basement, and would like to enlarge the shower space to run the...

I want to install a grab bar on the wall along my bathtub. Behind the ceramic tiles are steel studs....

I want to install ceramic tiles on the concrete floor in my basement. Right now the concrete floor is coated...