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Hi, Our cat's litter box is in the basement. We keep a shoe in the door to keep it from closing but occasionally, the basement door closes and latches. The cat knows how to open the door if the latch isn't caught, so I tried to look for a mortise lock, set where the latch can be toggle to stay reces...

You know, the previous owner is the one who remodeled the kitchen below and he's an electrician. I'd pinged him about power lines a month ago or so and I'd mentioned sistering the joists WRT the power lines running through holes in the old joists and he said to just notch the sisters instead of redo...

My house was built in 1920. We're down to the studs in our second floor DIY bathroom remodel. I plan to sister the joists to level the floor for tile. It dips over an inch in the middle, and it squeaks in places. I have a problem however. I thought I would be able to install joists long enough to re...

Hi, I'm attempting to mitigate an occasional mouse problem. Our house has baseboard heat, with a boiler in the basement. Everywhere where there's a baseboard, it looks like previous owners removed quarter-round, as there's a gap between the wood floor and the bottom of the ~8" tall baseboards. Every...

Did you figure out an answer to this? I'm trying to figure out what to use to patch my parging in my basement, but moderators here and on stack exchange keep disapproving my posts and don't tell me how to ask the question the way they want it to be asked. So frustrated.

Question: What to use to patch a hole in a parged basement wall? Background: I repaired a drainage issue on the exterior of my home built in 1920 that was causing my basement to flood. The water had been getting in the basement through a hole that developed through the parging under the stairs. Sinc...

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They'll mix it up for you and even match the color of your existing Putty Lime Joint Mortar using pigment.