Q: A while back, you wrote a column about replacing a wood shake roof with asphalt shingles. You said it was necessary to install new plywood or OSB oriented strand board sheeting over the 1-by-4 skip...
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Q: Our 4-year-old home has developed a crack down the seam of one interior wall, across to the next and then down another seam. A drywall taper repaired the crack by retaping it and finishing the seam....
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Q: We have a new chimney on the side of our house. The old chimney runs three stories high and through the roof in the middle of the house. We need to dismantle it so that we can renovate and reclaim the...
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Q: Our house has a stucco exterior that needs to be painted for the fourth time in the past 20 years. In previous paint jobs, we have done much scraping, used primer coats and finish paints made especially...
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Q:We have late 1980s oak cabinets in our kitchen that are stained dark walnut. They look dated but are in good shape. When we moved in four years ago, there were outdated appliances and ugly tile. At that...
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We received several responses to our last column about earthquake insurance. Here's our final word on the subject. Many insurance agents and customers took exception with reader Karen Mead, who said...
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We received several responses to our last column about earthquake insurance. Here's our final word on the subject. Many insurance agents and customers took exception with reader Karen Mead, who said...
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Q:I live in a home built in 1979 and want to create a smoother surface on my walls. They were finished with a textured finish of long strokes of finishing mud, which I have heard called a skip-trough finish....
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Q: Our toilet wobbles, and I have been wondering how to fix it. We are also going to replace the vinyl floor in that bathroom with tile. How close should I lay the tile around the flange I had this done...
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Nothing rocks our readers' world like an earthquake column. Our discussion of the pros and cons of earthquake insurance "Is quake insurance a must in Bay Area," March 25 produced dozens of...
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Q: A couple of weeks ago you wrote about your brother Bryan redoing his kitchen. You said he spent the better part of four days priming and painting the cabinets and painting the walls and the ceiling...
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Q:I was recently offered earthquake insurance from my carrier. I live in Sebastopol. My thoughts are that it would make more sense to retrofit the house, as you mentioned in a recent article, rather than...
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Q:We have a small 1924 cottage in El Cerrito that continues to shift and settle, resulting in cracks in the walls. There is a minor slope of no more than 5 percent, and probably less. There is a high water...
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Q:Upstairs, in the wall between the bathroom and the master bedroom, there is a thumping noise throughout the night and it's driving my wife and me crazy. It sounds like a dripping noise initially,...
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Q:I just read your article about hanging pictures in plaster walls and it was helpful. I am really interested in hanging my hammock. I am in an old Chicago walkup and cannot locate any studs in the walls....
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