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ConstructionAg
Favorite team: | Texas A&M |
Location: | Houston |
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Number of Posts: | 12 |
Registered on: | 6/24/2020 |
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re: Water Softener Installation Costs
Posted by ConstructionAg on 8/20/21 at 12:58 pm
What's "broken" on the one you have? There generally are not moving parts on a softener system with the exception of the electric head on the softener tank. The heads can be screwed off/on if it's as simple as that.
I bought a system from Springwell and did the install myself but with all the...
re: Admit Your Dumbest Homeowner Repair Mistakes
Posted by ConstructionAg on 8/5/21 at 1:47 pm
Garbage disposal went out. Replaced it with a new one. Didn't do dishes for a couple of days due eating out and also replacing piping with PEX in same general time frame. Starting doing dishes and dish washer would not drain water after completing a cycle. Fiddled with it a couple of days. Final...
re: Running power underground cost?
Posted by ConstructionAg on 7/31/21 at 7:33 pm
I'm having a backup generator installed here soon and Generator Supercenter (Houston) came out and quoted me. Our natural gas comes in on one side of the house and the electrical main on the other so I was either going to have to take gas or electrical to the location we put the generator. They qu...
re: Lighting wiring?
Posted by ConstructionAg on 3/16/21 at 1:59 pm
They have 3-way dimmers that you can dim from both switch locations. I have them installed in my house.
[link=(https://www.homedepot.com/p/Lutron-Maestro-LED-Dimmer-Switch-Kit-for-Dimmable-LED-Halogen-and-Incandescent-Bulbs-3-Way-or-Multi-Location-White-MACL-153M-RHW-WH/203486520)]Home Depot[/l...
re: Cost to cut pine trees from yard.
Posted by ConstructionAg on 2/22/21 at 12:53 pm
I'm in Houston and we had two pine trees removed and stump grinded about a month ago. They were right next to the house and in a neighborhood. Probably 60 year old trees so very good size. We used a fully insured company and it was $2,002.63 (including tax). They had both trees cut down to the s...
re: DIY PEX pipe installation and replacement of steel pipe
Posted by ConstructionAg on 11/16/20 at 11:50 am
I just got through doing a PEX (Uponor/expansion) re-pipe of my entire house, well...almost done, to replace the old galvanized steel pipe. There were times through the process where I was turning the main water supply on and off again since I kind of replaced it in phases to keep running water mos...
re: Roughly how much does a motorized gate cost in the BR area?
Posted by ConstructionAg on 8/7/20 at 8:54 am
I decided to do it all myself. I bought the posts, gate and side panels from amazinggates.com https://www.amazinggates.com/default.asp. They are still doing a 40% off sale on driveway gates. It cost me around $1.4K for a 10' gate and side panels. I bought the lift master gate arm online for a li...
re: Starter tools for woodworking?
Posted by ConstructionAg on 7/16/20 at 1:40 pm
Background:
I started woodworking about 12 years in a townhouse with no yard and a 2 car garage with one side used a shop and the other for parking, so space was very limited. We have since moved but still have a 2 car garage with 1 side being actively used to park in. Most of my woodworking has ...
re: Can I pour my concrete patio floor directly over dirt?
Posted by ConstructionAg on 7/9/20 at 12:40 am
Agree with just about everything stated above except I would add that it's probably a good idea to drill, sleeve and dowel into the existing slab so that if there is any movement, the new slab will move with the house slab....
re: Question for OT electricians (change light switch to duplex outlet) ETA: Image added
Posted by ConstructionAg on 7/1/20 at 2:04 pm
Let me start by telling you what I see. Pulled to the right of the box, I see a black and a white (discolored) 12/2 or 14/2 and pulled to the left of the box, I see a black, a red, and a white 12/3 or 14/3. I do not see a ground/bare copper wire anywhere in the photo.
You need to determine wh...
re: Boring a drainage pipe under a driveway
Posted by ConstructionAg on 6/24/20 at 5:01 pm
I can live with that. Thanks for having me. Love this board/site and hope I can contribute. ...
re: Boring a drainage pipe under a driveway
Posted by ConstructionAg on 6/24/20 at 4:31 pm
I don't know what drove me to finally create an account on TD and actually post something instead of lurk. Oh I remember, it's because I spent a weekend doing exactly what keakar, LSUtigermE, etc said to do with the water jet and PVC pipe.
It does work. I drove a 3/4" PVC pipe under a 9' wide dr...
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