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How much would it cost to re-grade my yard?
I will be moving to Stafford, Virginia and I am trying to find out how much it would cost me to re-grade the back yard so that the water from my neighboors yard does not run into my yard?
Room Addition Gone Wrong, Un-leveled Floors
We added on a room to our home. At the time we didn't have money to do it totally right. Half of the flooring is concrete and the rest is wood. The problem is that it's not leveled where the concrete floor and wood floor meet. Is there a way to get it leveled without tearing things out? Some type of cement product? It is a bedroom and the cement is on the ground floor of the house; the wood has crawl space under it.
Ballpark Cost for Full Kitchen Remodel in Boston
What would be the ballpark cost estimate for a 250 sq ft. full kitchen remodel, in midrange to highend, in Boston, Massachusetts?
Refinishing wood floors to create a rustic look
I am refinishing a wood floor and want to leave a little grain / rustic look to the wood, what grit of paper do I stop at? I am staining the wood with a white-wash type stain and finishing with a poly urethane. I am thinking that I can just use several coats of poly to coat the floor and protect it from splintering. Any advice?
Why would the studs in my walls be at 14″ from center?
I was hanging stuff in the garage, and could not find the studs. The first one was 12 inches from the corner, then 16, then 13 1/2, then 15, then 14, etc. I needed the stuff hung further down, so after a lot of small nail holes, I cut some sheet rock off of the bottom. I found a 2-by-4 stud, and the next was 14 1/2 inches away, and the next stud was a 4-by-4, not a 2-by-4. Any reason for this headache?
Enclosing a Porch as a Sunroom
The east-facing open side porch of our New Haven home is 6' x 12'. It's off the kitchen near the separate garage. We love sunrooms and want to enclose the porch with two insulated walls. There'd be three 4 x 6' windows, a window door, and floor and ceiling insulation and finishes. What is a rough cost?
Waterlogged Fence Posts in Corvallis, Ore.
The 18-year old wood fence sections around my lawn are sound but the posts, which are in cement, are rotting at the bases. What type of fence posts or supports would keep this from happening in the future? Should I reuse the sections?
Flooring for home dance practice
Our twins are starting their third year of tap dance lessons and beg us to remove the family room carpet and put in hard flooring. What's a tap-proof flooring material, and what will it cost to tear up 14 x 20' of carpet and install hard flooring?
Sunrooms for Solar Gain in Iowa
Is Cedar Rapids, Iowa's climate amenable to having sunrooms create solar gain during the winter? We have an unobstructed south-facing dining room, kitchen, and master bedroom and bath which could all open onto it. Total available length is about 50 feet. I assume passive solar is cheapest but don't know if it would work compared to some simple active solar design.
Is there such a thing as perma shield water proof sheet rock?
I've used Wonderboard, but this stuff they're showing me isn't green! I am a renter in a NYC apartment, built around 1960. I have had a leak from the apartment upstairs in my 1/2 bathroom and master bath which share a common wall. The leak comes through the ceiling in the 1/2 bath in kind of a square shape. In the master bath, the leak is only slightly apparent in the ceiling, but it did sound like a waterfall behind the medicine cabinet when this all started. It has unfortunately taken quite a long time to repair due to the upstairs' tenants reluctance to allow access and after 3 weeks, it's still leaking. Last week, the super thought he had fixed the leak by repairing grout around the shower, fixtures etc. upstairs. At the time, I politely suggested that the "Niagara" I heard was not due to a few leaks and I was correct, as the damn leak keeps leaking. Anyway, I am quite concerned about mold and mildew. He told me that the building used permashield wall board that was water proof. He actually took out the medicine cabinet in the master bath to illustrate that there were stains, but no mildew and no dampness. It was indeed dry to the touch, but this wasn't the green Wonderboard that I had used in my home when remodeling a bathroom. The principal leak is in the 1/2 bath and there is a huge mirror on the wall which he is reluctant to remove to show me the wall. The leak in the ceiling in the 1/2 bath by this time has leached against the mirrored wall. He is trying to assure me that there will be no mildew or mold because of the waterproof nature of the sheetrock and that mildew grows in warmth and low air circulation. (His boss also said that the air circulation in the building was tremendous and would inhibit mildew.) He simply wants to scrape and repaint the ceiling. I have grave doubts about this: when he thought the leak had been fixed and made the first repair, he applied compound to the ceiling and it bubbled immediately. He said it was due to the cement ceiling being cold; I said it was still wet and it was indeed. Ok, so do I now believe him about the mold and mildew and not insist on a visual inspection of the mirrrored wall, or simply lawyer up and withhold rent because one of my rooms has been unusable for 3 weeks? By the way, this is an expensive upper East side "luxury" apartment building.
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