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« Reply #1025 on: January 10, 2018, 09:02:24 AM »
usually handymen are divided into two categories:
-handymen that are handy with wood/carpentry
-handymen that are handy with cars/mechanical stuff

my handyman split is roughly 100/0 so i would never attempt to replace a radiator.

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« Reply #1026 on: January 10, 2018, 09:23:41 AM »
Go for it, probably just a few bolts and hose clamps
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« Reply #1027 on: January 10, 2018, 11:04:46 AM »
do it

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« Reply #1028 on: January 10, 2018, 12:14:18 PM »
Do it. Super pud.

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Re: handyman-ness
« Reply #1029 on: January 10, 2018, 12:26:41 PM »
usually handymen are divided into two categories:
-handymen that are handy with wood/carpentry
-handymen that are handy with cars/mechanical stuff

my handyman split is roughly 100/0 so i would never attempt to replace a radiator.

exact same

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« Reply #1030 on: January 10, 2018, 12:59:01 PM »
i did mine -after watching a you tube video
it was a manual transmission vehicle which is easier than an automatic because those run the fluid through the radiator

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« Reply #1031 on: January 10, 2018, 01:15:10 PM »
Blocked out 2 hours to replace bathroom faucet last weekend.  Took 7 hours and 3 trips to Lowe's.  Did not feel very handyman afterwards.  I did it though, I did it. 

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« Reply #1032 on: January 10, 2018, 01:18:27 PM »
Wow, what was the problem?
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« Reply #1033 on: January 10, 2018, 01:41:09 PM »
Well, after I hooked up the hot and cold lines to the new faucet I couldn't get it to stop leaking.  Had to end up using a ton of plumbers tape and some putty stuff which finally worked.  A big problem was that the water shut off valve on the line under the sink didn't work.  So my wife had to go downstairs every time I needed to test the connection and turn the water on/off to the whole house.  Also some other problems occurred that are probably really easy to fix, but hard for me, so I'd rather not mention them.

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« Reply #1034 on: January 10, 2018, 03:15:16 PM »
usually handymen are divided into two categories:
-handymen that are handy with wood/carpentry
-handymen that are handy with cars/mechanical stuff

my handyman split is roughly 100/0 so i would never attempt to replace a radiator.

exact same
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« Reply #1035 on: January 10, 2018, 04:40:38 PM »
Where does electrical/plumbing and home appliances fall into? 
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« Reply #1036 on: January 10, 2018, 04:48:49 PM »
Where does electrical/plumbing and home appliances fall into?

Probably the mechanical side.

I can do a lot of electrical stuff as long at it doesn't involve a lot of demo or running new wire. Car stuff I can do myself as long as it doesn't involve taking a part of lot of things to get to the broken part or if it could be dangerous doing wrong. So replacing a radiator I could probably do, it is basically a few hoses and w/e bolts holding it to the car and it's pretty accessible.  But I wouldn't do my AC compressor replacement. It is a pain to get to unless you jack the car up and I don't feel comfortable with compressed fluids.

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« Reply #1037 on: January 10, 2018, 04:57:51 PM »
Where does electrical/plumbing and home appliances fall into? 

i am like a 2.5/7 at plumbing. electrical stuff is lol nah

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« Reply #1038 on: January 10, 2018, 05:05:13 PM »
Wood - 7
Cars - 4
Electric - 6
Plumbing - 6
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« Reply #1039 on: January 10, 2018, 05:35:19 PM »
Wood - 3
Cars - 4
Electrical - 6.5
Plumbing - 2
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« Reply #1040 on: January 10, 2018, 05:55:23 PM »
Changing light bulbs -7
Unclogging garbage disposals - 6
Cleaning dryer vent - 7
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« Reply #1041 on: January 10, 2018, 06:11:21 PM »
Electrical - 6.5

in my house there are like 3 or 4 recepticles in the living room that only have juice when the basement light is turned on. what do i do?

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« Reply #1042 on: January 10, 2018, 06:15:50 PM »
House water pipes- 7
Yard work- 7
Chimney work- 7
Painting- 7
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Re: handyman-ness
« Reply #1043 on: January 10, 2018, 06:58:05 PM »
Plumbing, woof. The P trap under my kitchen sink rusted out back in December and started leaking. Seemed like a pretty easy fix, just buy a PVC replacement kit at home depot and boom.

Welp, when I got the old one off I found out why that sink took forever to drain. The main drain pipe was almost completely full of a black tar like substance that was decades in the making. I cleaned out most of it with a butter knife and then ran draino through it twice, drains fine now.

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Re: handyman-ness
« Reply #1044 on: January 10, 2018, 07:02:42 PM »
Not looking forward to replacing this beast tho....

My main problem is I have no idea where the cord goes for when I replace it. Like, it just disappears into the back of the cabinet and I flip a magic switch by the sink to turn it on.


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« Reply #1045 on: January 10, 2018, 07:13:37 PM »
just use that cord and mount an outlet on the back of the cabinet there
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Re: handyman-ness
« Reply #1046 on: January 10, 2018, 08:00:15 PM »
just use that cord and mount an outlet on the back of the cabinet there

Would it be easier to just use the same cord and somehow splice it with the cord of the new garbage disposal?

Kind of nervous about installing my own electrical outlet underneath a sink where water could leak on it. (No idea what would happen but I imagine it wouldnt be good?)

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« Reply #1047 on: January 10, 2018, 08:17:40 PM »
Electrical - 6.5

in my house there are like 3 or 4 recepticles in the living room that only have juice when the basement light is turned on. what do i do?

That's not that uncommon, but it's more uncommon that that switch controls more than one outlet + a light. Let me browse the internet for some visual aids cause it's kinda hard to explain but my best guess would be that it's like a lamp outlet circuit that you see many times in living rooms or bedrooms where if you want to "turn on a lamp" without constantly flicking the switch on the lamp, you wire an outlet to a switch and leave the lamp "always on" and kill the power from the switch.
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« Reply #1048 on: January 10, 2018, 08:19:35 PM »
just use that cord and mount an outlet on the back of the cabinet there

Would it be easier to just use the same cord and somehow splice it with the cord of the new garbage disposal?

Kind of nervous about installing my own electrical outlet underneath a sink where water could leak on it. (No idea what would happen but I imagine it wouldnt be good?)

If it gets wet it's short and trip the breaker, or start a fire. That's worst case. If you do, install a GFCI outlet, it's what you by code have to install in kitchens. I would try to reuse the circuit there instead of trying to create a new outlet.
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« Reply #1049 on: January 10, 2018, 08:52:20 PM »
Electrical - 6.5

in my house there are like 3 or 4 recepticles in the living room that only have juice when the basement light is turned on. what do i do?

That's not that uncommon, but it's more uncommon that that switch controls more than one outlet + a light. Let me browse the internet for some visual aids cause it's kinda hard to explain but my best guess would be that it's like a lamp outlet circuit that you see many times in living rooms or bedrooms where if you want to "turn on a lamp" without constantly flicking the switch on the lamp, you wire an outlet to a switch and leave the lamp "always on" and kill the power from the switch.

OK, so there are lot of iterations possible of your circuit, and w/o seeing it it's going to be hard to pin down what your exact set up is. The switch could be set up like below, and let's just stick to the principle since I don't want to get too far off track, there are a few flavors on doing it, or the hardware of the switch could be a little different, etc.



So this is your basic light circuit, imagine in addition to the light, in parallel all those outlets are there. If you open up the switch, and pull it out (of course kill the circuit at the breaker box first) and there are more than 2 wires are any one screw, you are probably in luck and can fix this by going through, carefully, and figuring out which wire goes to the light, and which wire goes to the outlets. However, if there only like 1 wire on any screw, you're probably sunk, since you need to have the outlets and the light on separate hot wires from the switch to make the fix easy (I am assuming you want to be able to still turn the light on and off, but have the outlets always on).

Basically, if you have a separate wire running to the outlets, and to the light, you would move the hot wire to the outlet to the incoming hot, thus keeping them on the entire time. I'm actually guessing there is a good chance this is how this particular outlet is set up, with a separate hot for the light and the outlets, because it sounds like whoever owned your house before was really into like track lighting or lamps in your basement, and wanted them to all "come on" and "off" at the same time without having to go and turn each one separately. It is also possible though it was wired the less convenient way from the get go, and will need to break the outlets off from the light.

BTW, i had one of these switch/outlets in my living room, and just have a switch now that doesn't do anything, I'd rather just have the outlet always on (though, admittedly I am lazy and should just actually remove the switch and connect the wires with wire connectors, hopefully I get around to it or else whoever buys my house in the future will probably spend forever figuring out what that switch does.
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