I moved into a new place and noticed the 2F subpanel has the neutral and ground strip bonded. Work was done by local licensed contractors 12 years ago. No one has probably even checked until now. It’s a simple 240V breaker split into 120V breakers. I’m assuming this is wrong. Should I just remove the ground wire connecting them? Main panel is bonded. Everything else looks clean and legit.| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
The brand of the range hood is Forno Arezzo 44. We like the hood, but the remote is cheap looking and doesn’t work well. It’s a dual fan exhaust and it looks like there’s a black green white red and orange wire coming off each fan. Would appreciate if anyone could help me out with wiring the fans directly to the switch or knob and maybe they know of the correct knob to use. Thanks in advance.| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I was getting ready to put new gutters up, but found this under the white aluminum cover. I was expecting to see a fascia board, not these two boards. Could someone point me in the right direction on how to fix?| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I bought this product hoping that it would allow me to set the distance from the door to the frame after it is installed. However, it looks like it's something non standard, and that another piece is necessary in the frame. Do you know this system ? There are no moving parts in the product in the picture.| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I just finished doing the bulk of the demo in our bathroom after having all of our drains redone and am in the process of putting everything back together. We want to install six inch white square wall tiles halfway up the walls, and were hoping to leave the shower the way it is for now, both cause the tile we would want is backordered, and just for budget reasons (those new drains were not cheap). Previously there was a vanity close to where the bathtub was, and after pulling this out I disc...| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I found a bottle of dish detergent from years ago. It appears discoloured. I checked online to see whether it works as toilet bowl cleaner. I found that it might help in unclogging toilets, but there is warning against using it regularly for toilets because it's bad for gaskets and seals. However, the warning often (not always) pertains to using dish detergent in the water reservoir tank. So it is unclear whether the warning applies to using dish detergent in the toilet bowl. What do plumbers...| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I cook food in a small, badly ventilated room with a natural gas stove for 1-3 hours per day. Someone warned about carbon monoxide poisoning. Googling reveals that most modern burners would typically produce 0 to 50ppm with a tendency to a lower bound in that range. How reliable is this data assuming that burner consumes a "regular" natural gas commonly used in the US? Is there actually a concern in using natural gas burners e.g. in a small room? Is there such a concern for gas furnaces most ...| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I will be building a new house and plan to have 400A electric utility service split into two 200A main load centers. One of those load centers will be tied to a whole house generator via an automatic transfer switch. (I will be feeding essential circuits into load center B which is backed up by generator, and then non-essential circuits into load center A which is not backed up.) I have three questions on wiring: I know that for a sub-panel, you do not bond the ground to the neutral, but you ...| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
Splitting service to a new power meter. I just cut the wires coming out of the meter box and now the grounding cable is 2' short of the grounding rod. Must the ground wire be continuous from the p...| Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I moved into a new place and noticed the 2F subpanel has the neutral and ground strip bonded. Work was done by local licensed contractors 12 years ago. No one has probably even checked until now. It’s a simple 220V breaker split into 110V breakers. I’m assuming this is wrong. Should I just remove the ground wire connecting them and sleep better at night? Main panel is bonded. Everything else looks clean and legit.| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
The brand of the range hood is Forno Arezzo 44. We like the hood, but the remote is cheap looking and doesn’t work well. It’s a dual fan exhaust and it looks like there’s a black green white red and orange wire coming off each fan. Would appreciate if anyone could help me out with wiring the fans directly to the switch or knob and maybe they know of the correct knob to use. Thanks in advance.| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I have seen periscope dryer vents to get the dryer closer to the wall, and magvent to minimize the vent path, but is there a product or solution that combines the two? My issue is my dryer goes around a small corner, so the periscope vents I've seen would solve my desire to move the dryer closer to the wall but wouldn't work around that angle. And then the magvent would solve the angle issue, but still have a large hose that prevents the dryer from being pushed closer to the wall. It is a sma...| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I was getting ready to put new gutters up, but found this under the white aluminum cover. I was expecting to see a fascia board, not these two boards. Could someone point me in the right direction on how to fix? Thanks in advance. These are the pictures| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I have a 3-way switch that controls a ceiling fan in my Living Room. It controls both the light and the fan at the same time. I control the light and fan speed with the chains coming off the ceiling fan. From the ceiling I have a hot black, a hot red, a neutral white and of course the ground. From the current ceiling fan / light I have a white, black, blue and the ground. I bought a Harbor Breeze universal remote model #0745358 and want to use that now instead of always pulling the chains. On...| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
We just moved in and tried to replace a Honeywell Thermostat with the Nest Learning Thermostat Gen 3. Looks like the heat function is only blowing cool air, so we think we wired things incorrectly,...| Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I am thinking of adding an outdoor kitchen (small appliances, hood exhaust, no fridge or major appliances), workshop (typical bench tools that I have in my garage now), and 3 kW solar system. The workshop and outdoor kitchen would be two separate structures (about 8'x10' each) about 20 feet apart in backyard. The solar panel will be ground mounted just beyond the kitchen and workshop. Currently, I have a 100 Amp main panel with 200 Amp service meter (San Diego, CA). This panel has been suffic...| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
My home has soffit vents on the front, south-west facing side, intaking air for a gable roof with a ridge vent at the top. However, the back, north-east facing side has no intake for the back slope of the gable. A reputable local roofer suggested a "vented drip edge" solution to intake air on that side, but I'm not totally sold. I'm doing some repairs to the roof deck on this side, and I noticed that the fascia is designed with something like a channel behind the gutter, below the sub-fascia ...| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
My carport roof has begun to sag. From what I understand, the original framing was built very deficient for the size of the structure. Any ideas on ways to improve the framing and structural integrity to eliminate the roof sag and prolong the life of the carport? The photo is looking up at the carport roof from below. You can see there are 4 posts and a center post all placed in concrete. All support beams are only 2x6. Carport dimensions are 16x16. Sagging is in the middle of the carport. It...| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
During Covid I had this shower redone. The tile guy and the plumber were not on the same page when it came to the drain and I've lived with it like this for years. What's the best way to correct this and have a functional drain with cover? Thanks in advance for your help.| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
We moved into a house in Oregon 3 months ago and were plagued by sewer smells both inside and outside one side of the house. We found in the crawl space an approximately 12 foot horizontal section of 2" ABS vent pipe had broken off. This was right below the area where we noticed the worst of the smells. On one side it came through a brick wall from a bathroom and toilet on the opposite side of the wall. It was completely sheared of at a coupling about a foot from the wall. From that break, th...| Recent Questions - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
The 1-1/2" copper waste pipe than runs from our kitchen just up and cracked two days ago along its length, and for no apparent reason. The crack is in a section of pipe that runs vertically through...| Home Improvement Stack Exchange
I'm building a pergola over a paver patio. The pergola will dimension 11'x 11.5' on center of post with 6x6 posts (4 posts), tied together with sandwiched 2x12 beams. I've laid out footer locations...| Home Improvement Stack Exchange