Topics: Reroofing, what to do about skylight leaks; Cleaning a clothes dryer duct; cleaning air exchanger ducts; Sanding floors while living in a condo, controlling dust; Landscaping slopes to the foundation, can he cover the bricks with soil, creating an intercept drain in the landscaping; Lights flickering during a heat wave in Ontario; Strange brick weeping holes at the second floor level; All about air spaces in walls.

Topics: What is the best way to finish a basement from the outside while fixing foundation cracks and installing a new perimeter drain – Air Gap Membrane – insulation; How to find someone to fix a chimney; Controlling Ants in the house; Flex ducts coming off in the walls of a forced air furnace; Which driveway sealer to use; Support posts for a balcony on a condo hanging free from the balcony above; Oil tank in garage is 20 years old – must it be replaced?

Topics: Making old computers quiet again -- UltraSoft magic; Mice in basement; Heat pump dying and oil furnace is old – all electric – Dual Energy – Tri-Energy; Slight oil smell from long removed oil tank – Oil Lift will get rid of the oil and the smell; Using composite decking; Sealing asphalt driveway; Is it reasonable to still buy sliding windows; Cleaning up a line of mould.

Topics: TekSill water flow spacer for basement walls – minimize the consequences of any water spill in a basement – a new Montreal invention; Choosing a skylight – Pyramid with vent or dome; Musty smell at a cottage – the HRV air changer; When is the new deck stain I have talked about coming – Jon’s Homework; When do I know I need to change a hot water tank; Cracks in the brick mortar; How to purify household air next to extreme highway pollution; Can I get an air exchanger for an apartment – yes.

Topics : Building codes now free for everyone; Porcelain repair of an old sink; Removing silicone caulking – Re-Mov; Removing parquet flooring; Will tile adhesive stick to a concrete floor covered in epoxy; Rebuilding a bedroom in a basement, walls, insulation, flooring; What material to use to re-roof a flat roof – membranes vs asphalt; Refinishing a floor in a furnace room – get down to bare concrete.

Cement falling off of a roof of a cold room – use a primer -- force thick concrete mix tightly overhead and close off with wood to let it set --  insulating a cold room; Uncontrolled heat in an apartment building – need social pressure of many occupants with the same problem for the administration to fix a group problem; Cleaning walls and ceilings stained with cigarette smoke: clean with TSP – Dish soap well rinsed; Oil Lift for cleaning strength and safety for hands; Sound coming from a toilet valve; Building a new basement washroom – comfort tub with air or water jets; Clean-up after new roof leaked – re-seal the vapour barrier with “blue vapour barrier tape”; Connecting an ABC floor drain to a cast iron drain; Getting references for roofing contractors.

Topics : Cesar has been killed 10 feet away from the children he was playing with -- leading to reflections on the danger of electric cars that make no warning noises on residential streets – reconciling freedom to drive with the security of children on residential streets; How to reduce radon levels after receiving the results of a radon test – there is a lot on radon on this site – the general understanding of radon – the total construction details of radon preparation or remediation;  How to stop water from coming through a tongue & groove balcony; How to avoid floor cracks with floors on a condo concrete slab -- Engineered flooring; How to know if you need to line or repair a chimney; Keeping squirrels from nesting under the balcony.

Topics : Choosing the material for recovering a flat roof; Looking for good decking materials – Kebony is an excellent alternative to exotic hardwoods; Vent through the roof for the bathroom – check out the Ventilation-Maximum roof exhaust hood; Noise in the house from the plumbing in the winter – freezing of the plumbing stack and solutions; The corner of a second floor balcony is rooting under the railings – BCS penetrating epoxy to the rescue; How to restore the smell of a cedar panel in a closet; More on wood decking materials; Dryer has a burnt smell – Magnetic exhaust connector – Lint Alert; Fiberglass panel balcony rotting.

Topics : Static electricity; Replacing kitchen back splash; Can I put the heat pump on the roof; Changing the lead water pipe; In duplex changed to all electric and one went very expensive, not the other; How to put engineered flooring on concrete; Does the ceiling/attic temperature difference affect ice on the roof; Tracing water on the floor in a lower garage.

Topics: Soil dropping around foundation; Deck staining on treated wood; Industry overview of residential flat roof coverings; Cooking smell goes directly to master bedroom – updating the range hood; Can I nail hardwood onto an OSB floor; What size gas supply tube is required for a propane fire place; Installing de-icing cables; What is a good deck stain; Tracing strange water entry.