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  0 Thread: Matching up a door
Post: RE: Matching up a door
KC Wrote: (10-22-2020, 03:43 PM) -- Yes.  I ordered it from the supplier the builder used, which was not a BORG.  I needed to put a doggie door in the replacement.  When we sell the new owner can kee...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 11 3,210 10-22-2020, 05:07 PM
  0 Thread: Matching up a door
Post: RE: Matching up a door
fixtureman Wrote: (10-22-2020, 12:49 PM) -- I use a story pole and mark my doors that way.   If I am hanging new doors I have a door jig and boring jig.  I did hang hundreds of doors over the years. ...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 11 3,210 10-22-2020, 03:06 PM
  0 Thread: Matching up a door
Post: RE: Matching up a door
rwe2156 Wrote: (10-22-2020, 09:55 AM) -- How about measure the existing door? -- The existing door is gone, along with the hardware due to prior owner
 bsheffer Home Improvement 11 3,210 10-22-2020, 03:00 PM
  0 Thread: Matching up a door
Post: RE: Matching up a door
KC Wrote: (10-22-2020, 04:49 AM) -- Doors on my house didn't match anything at the BORG(s)... hinge spacing was different.  I tracked down one of the trades guys that worked with the builder and foun...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 11 3,210 10-22-2020, 06:40 AM
  0 Thread: Matching up a door
Post: Matching up a door
What is the chance of buying a prehung cheap wood slab interior door/frame(32x80) and being able to take the door portion only, with the hinges  and being able to put it in an installed 10 year old in...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 11 3,210 10-21-2020, 10:42 PM
  0 Thread: Hedge trimmers
Post: RE: Hedge trimmers
Pretty sure I bought it at a local dealer and yes, they are a little pricey but it will last a lifetime
 bsheffer Home Improvement 11 6,828 07-20-2018, 07:03 AM
  0 Thread: Toilet tanks breaking- how often
Post: Toilet tanks breaking- how often
I have a condo that is about two years old and has been occupied by my parents forever. Ie, no rukus parties or carrying on!!! Over the past two years, two of the three tanks on the toilets have crack...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 19 9,032 07-20-2018, 06:52 AM
  0 Thread: 80 gallon water tanks now have integrated heat pumps
Post: 80 gallon water tanks now have integrated heat pum...
Again, I must have been asleep at the switch.....I need to replace an 80 gallon water heater. Talking to one guy at Home Depot, anything bigger than 50 gallon for residential now has an integrated hea...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 14 7,340 06-22-2018, 10:12 AM
  0 Thread: Hedge trimmers
Post: RE: Hedge trimmers
JTTHECLOCKMAN Wrote: (06-21-2018, 11:46 PM) -- Looking for a good electric hedge trimmer. Anyone better than another??? -- I researched this issue a while back and if I remember, the answer is a ma...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 11 6,828 06-22-2018, 10:06 AM
  0 Thread: paving costs in the mid-atlantic area
Post: RE: paving costs in the mid-atlantic area
Thanks for the info. Looks like I am in the neighborhood
 bsheffer Home Improvement 4 2,922 04-16-2018, 08:38 PM
  0 Thread: paving costs in the mid-atlantic area
Post: paving costs in the mid-atlantic area
I have an area that is about 16000 sq feet behind one of my buildings. It was paved many years ago and is completely trashed?  Just as a reference point, about 1/2 of it is questionable as to if it wa...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 4 2,922 04-16-2018, 04:53 PM
  0 Thread: Wiring a speed controller into an outlet
Post: RE: Wiring a speed controller into an outlet
JTTHECLOCKMAN Wrote: (11-27-2017, 09:06 PM) -- Why not just get a VS fan controller and plug into outlet and plug fan into it. unplug when done using. www.amazon.com/Lighthouse-Hydro-Variable-Spee...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 5 3,920 11-28-2017, 10:36 AM
  0 Thread: Wiring a speed controller into an outlet
Post: Wiring a speed controller into an outlet
Is there any reason why I cannot wire a speed controller into a 110 outlet?? The application is such that I want to configure an air exhaust fan into a window with a piece of lexan but I need to be ab...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 5 3,920 11-27-2017, 04:11 PM
  0 Thread: synthetic deck gapping
Post: synthetic deck gapping
I am thinking about replacing decking on a lakehouse property. The current wooden deck is failing and needs to go. One of the things I noticed on existing decking is that the spacing between the board...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 5 3,269 06-26-2017, 08:59 AM
  0 Thread: replacing a full glass double walk out basement door
Post: replacing a full glass double walk out basement do...
Hello, I have an approximate 25 year old walk out 12-lite per door/double door in a walk out basement that will need to be replaced shortly.. It looks like there are two options in that basically I ca...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 3 2,813 03-20-2017, 08:24 AM
  0 Thread: Insulating a house
Post: Insulating a house
Hello, has anyone ever dealt this companies who go around with technology and try to sell you on the idea of air leakage and profess to fix it. In a cold weather mountain location, my neighbor was app...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 9 4,782 01-11-2017, 08:11 AM
  0 Thread: T8 Fluorescent fixtures have personality!!
Post: RE: T8 Fluorescent fixtures have personality!!
as.....this is a low priority fix but I will get to it and report back.
 bsheffer Home Improvement 10 6,515 12-05-2016, 11:59 AM
  0 Thread: T8 Fluorescent fixtures have personality!!
Post: RE: T8 Fluorescent fixtures have personality!!
and there is a gang box that I can eventually get into. Do you think my bulb explanation is worth even trying?? It was a stretch. My understanding is that the ballast provides an initial 'high volt...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 10 6,515 12-02-2016, 10:08 AM
  0 Thread: T8 Fluorescent fixtures have personality!!
Post: RE: T8 Fluorescent fixtures have personality!!
Not cold at all as it is actually an office environment.
 bsheffer Home Improvement 10 6,515 12-02-2016, 09:46 AM
  0 Thread: T8 Fluorescent fixtures have personality!!
Post: T8 Fluorescent fixtures have personality!!
Single pole switch controlling two T8 fixturers that were installed 5 years ago and working fine. Over the past two weeks, Sometime when you turn the switch "on" no lights come on. turn the switch off...
 bsheffer Home Improvement 10 6,515 12-02-2016, 09:09 AM

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