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  1. Landscaping & Lawn Care
    Getting 212’ of 6’x8’ white full privacy vinyl fencing installed. A general contractor is installing it, but told me to pick and purchase the fence. He wasn’t familiar with brands. I’m torn between brands and they all seem similar in wall thickness, features (all have steel reinforced bottoms)...
  2. Roofing/Siding
    All, what is the proper to transition vinyl siding on gable ends to flat patio ceiling? should I use a starter strip, j bead. Not sure what the best way to do this is.
  3. Roofing/Siding
    Do you guys have any advice for how to patch this spot on the vinyl outside corner. Had to cut it out for the joist hanger.
  4. Roofing/Siding
    Help!!! Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. just put down shingles and need to put flashing around the following vinyl corner to waterproof it. Let me know what should be done.
  5. Roofing/Siding
    All I am building a 12x28 patio cover over my existing slab. Footings have been poured, inspected, and passed. It’s time to start framing. This is almost identical to what I want to build. My concern is at the end of the porch where my soffit/roof will extend past the corner of my vinyl...
  6. Painting
    Hi, We got a bunch of paint on the inside frame of our vinyl windows, anyone know anyway to remove it without damaging the vinyl? I've gone through some threads on this but most of them were very old and didn't have any real great solutions. Just thought I'd ask again in case anything new has...
  7. Flooring
    Hi all, I’m removing old vinyl sheet flooring and will be using schluter-ditra over the plywood subfloor to install 24” x 24” glazed vitrified tiles. The home was built in the mid 80s, and the floor adhesive has been so hard to get up. Been using a heat gun and a scraper and lots of sweat, but...
  8. Building & Construction
    Anyone have experience with these types of PVC vinyl fencing? What is unacceptable to me are the scratches and the incorrect bracing. Also it just looks somewhat sloppy. The cuts aren’t straight and the gaps are large. Am I within reason to rake them over the coals?
  9. Roofing/Siding
    Was quoted $520 for pressure washing the exterior (vinyl siding) but thinking this could be one of those jobs we do ourselves. I have absolutely no experience pressure washing a house so is it difficult? And what would I need? If the tools to buy/rent would cost similar to the cost of hiring...
  10. Flooring
    this tile is driving me nuts. as per the photos it appears to be some type of vinyl laid over the original (?) porcelain hex tile. in a perfect world that vinyl would be easy and (more importantly) safe to remove and the porcelain underneath in good condition. my gut tells me neither of these...
  11. Building & Construction
    I am wondering if anyone might have some suggestions on solving this drainage issue with our vinyl deck. We used to have 2 separate decks but upon rebuild we have them joined with a narrow walkway. There was previously a downspout where the new walkway currently is. Initially, we were going to...
  12. Roofing/Siding
    Hi all, I've been having issues with my roof deck leaking water into the ceiling below (master bathroom). For this particular issue, I've used the hose test to narrow down the area where an inside corner (perpendicular) of two vinyl siding's meet (see pic). I'm not experienced enough on my...
  13. Landscaping & Lawn Care
    Go easy on me as I'm a new homeowner and equally new to home repair! our front yard has an underscalloped vinyl fence. One of the pickets' peaks is cracked off (no idea how), and borders our neighbor's driveway. I don't like this eye sore for our neighbors and ourselves and would really like...
  14. Carpentry
    Hi, My kitchen has a new wall oven in place of the old one. When we installed the original one it came with some molding which we glued on around the outside giving it a covered look. 15 years later the oven broke and the molding, some kind of laminate or vinyl that came with our cabinets from...
  15. Flooring
    Loose laying vinyl sheet flooring in our basement directly over concrete pad. Basement flooded a bit recently and water got all underneath the flooring (we've got 3 bedrooms down there), meaning we had to get all furniture out so we could get flooring up so it could dry...total pain. I want to...
  16. Flooring
    Hello. I am planning to lay Grip Strip Flooring in my bathroom and then carry it through to my connected Bedroom. However there is a pretty decent downwards slope leading into the bedroom from the bathroom. How can I even it out or make a slope that would be suitable for laying vinyl plank along...
  17. General DIY Discussions
    Sorry, I don't know where else to post this thread. So, the seats to the VW beetle I have were stored out of the car for years. Rodents nested in the bottom seat and of course, it got nasty. I've removed the seat cover (upholstery) and cleaned it some with a small upholstery cleaning machine...
  18. Roofing/Siding
    We got a shed custom built by a local contractor. The shed was built on a concrete pad. The issue we are currently dealing with is related to the improper installation of the vinyl siding. The bottom strip of vinyl siding was not installed low enough to protect the sheathing against water (or...
  19. Painting
    I posted in another thread about wood crystal sculptures. I haven't yet been able to find the exact sculptures I was looking for but I noticed that many of the wooden crystal sculptures are painted and show the grain through the paint. I believe I have seen others that use vinyl film that gives...
  20. Roofing/Siding
    I recently had to remove vinyl siding underneath some windows in the front of my house, the wood under the corners of the windows is rotted. When I look at how the window was trimmed out using J channel, I see that there is no place for the water to go when it runs down the side of the windows...
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