b. If you don’t have a common wire, Ross recommends wiring the G wire into the common port instead. Most people don’t use the “fan only” mode, so while you’d give up control over the fan in the system, you’d gain constant power to the smart thermostat. You’ll also have to change the wire at the furnace from G to C. 5. Connect the thermostat to the baseplate. 6. Configure the thermostat following the manufacturer’s settings....
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Brad: Absolutely, awesome to be here Jenn: I thought we could start with you telling everybody a little bit about Fix This Build That and how you got started. Brad: Yeah, absolutely. So Fix This Build That is a website where I do woodworking and DIY projects and plans—Anything from Instagram, to social media, blog to YouTube. I’ve been growing the platform, and I just do a lot of projects to help beginners to intermediate woodworkers build something awesome....
A line of evergreen trees or shrubs can provide year-round seclusion even better than a fence, because there are no municipal restrictions on how high they can grow. (Towns usually require permits for a fence over 6 feet tall.) However, if there are power lines above your screen, you don’t want trees so big that they’ll grow into the wires. Also pay attention to their width at maturity; the spacing between trunks when you plant should equal mature width....
Top 3 Reasons Why Water Heaters Fail 1. Steel and water don’t mix The typical water heater in the U.S. is a gas-fired tank model consisting of a steel tank with a glass lining. While the glass serves to separate the water inside the tank from the steel, water will eventually make it through. When it does, the steel begins to oxidize (rust), leading to a breakdown of the materials in the tank....
What Can I Do With a Sloped Backyard? Install a retaining wall for a sloped backyard and you can carve out functional outdoor spaces where once there were only precarious slopes. To help you, we asked our experts for their inexpensive retaining wall ideas so you can choose which sturdy and stylish structure for leveling your landscape. What Is the Cheapest Type of Retaining Wall? The cheapest type of retaining wall is poured concrete....
These handsome barriers also make inviting spots to sit, and can increase usable yard space by terracing sloped properties, something that is increasingly important as flat home sites become ever more scarce in many regions. Along with sloped landscapes where water runoff causes hillside erosion, ideal locations for a retaining wall system include spots downhill from soil fault lines and where the downhill side of a foundation is losing supporting soil or its uphill side is under pressure from sliding soil....
In this episode: On the morning of November 8, 2018, the 27,000 residents of Paradise, California woke to an orange glow in the Eastern sky, but it wasn’t the sun. The worst wildfire in the state’s history was heading towards them. By sunset, 85 people would be dead and 14,000 homes, about 90%, would be completely destroyed. A year later, with the help of thousands of workers, Paradise is rebuilding. This Old House is there to find out why this happened, what can prevent future disasters, and to help....
In this episode: Kitchens are the focus of many home renovations. American kitchens used to be modest in size, but now the trend is to have an open well-lit kitchen, with enough space to cook with family and to entertain friends. In the 1901 Arlington Arts and Crafts project, the homeowners need to improve the layout of their kitchen to benefit their family’s lifestyle, so they meet with an experienced kitchen designer and cabinet builder in Maine....
In this episode: Construction work and television production started on the new project in Narragansett, RI, but Covid put a halt to TV and placed restrictions on building. Five months later, we pick up where we left off with our 1887 Queen Anne Victorian. Kevin O’Connor, Richard Trethewey and Tom Silva set the stage for the restoration efforts. The house has been standing prominently in Narragansett for over a century, but it’s a shadow of its former self....
But often it doesn’t work out that way. If a teenager takes a long shower, or a spouse settles in for a tub soak, there can be a long wait for that emptied tank to reheat. Then there are the nagging worries: Is it filled with energy-robbing sediment? Will it spring a leak? Both are reasonable concerns, as tanks generally fail in 8 to 12 years. Tankless Water Heater Installation: Is It Worth It?...
Wolverine (known for making durable work boots for more than 135 years) has joined forces with mikeroweWORKS and TOH’s Generation NEXT in efforts to raise awareness for the trades as an attractive career path. While originally visiting jobs sites and apprentice schools to thank those committed to the trades, this year Wolverine’s Project Bootstrap signed three up-and-coming trade workers from across the country to “Team Wolverine.” Meet Team Wolverine Nolee Anderson from Nashville, Tennessee is a trim carpenter and has received a mikeroweWORKS scholarship to work toward her goal of a career in the trades....
Top 10 Solar Generators Best For Small Items: Jackery Portable Power Station Explorer 240 Best Medium Output: Jackery Portable Power Station Explorer 500 Best Handle: ROCKPALS Portable Power Station Most Powerful: EF ECOFLOW Portable Power Station Best Outlet Covers: BLUETTI Portable Power Station Best For Camping: Goal Zero Yeti 500X Portable Power Station Most Charging Options: MAXOAK Portable Power Station Most Durable: ITEHIL Portable Power Station Fastest Charging: EF ECOFLOW RIVER Pro Portable Power Station Most Portable: Rainier Outdoor Power Equipment Portable Power Station...
It’s the annual battle of weekend warriors versus the leaves—and you know what’s at stake: not only is the debris an eyesore and a nuisance, especially if your leaves blow onto your neighbor’s clean lawn but if you stall, a mantle of snow might cover them and smother the grass. That means more work for you come spring. What Happens If You Don’t Pick Up Leaves? If you don’t pick up fallen leaves, they could end up harming the grass and killing the yard....
Most Secure: DEVAISE Vertical File Cabinet Most Stylish: BirdRock Home Rolling File Cabinet Best Lateral Cabinet: Sauder Heritage Hill Lateral File Best Combination Storage: Yaheetech Lateral File Cabinet Most Secure: DEVAISE Vertical File Cabinet Pros and Cons ✔ Features a removable organizing tray for pencils, paper clips, and other office essentials✔ Comes with two keys in case you lose one✔ Includes two locking wheels ✘ Has two drawers at the top, which are relatively small✘ Has a front wheel that’s smaller than the rest...
