Home Improvements

[Sgt PSN]

Behr paint is awful, you're right. 

And in case anyone here doesn't know...there is no such thing as primer and paint in the same bucket.  That's a gimmick.  If you hate painting so much that you want to skip using actual primer, then just don't paint.  Save your money and call in a pro.  Otherwise, you're just wasting your time and money.

Absolute troof.  Luckily for me, I found out the easy way......through a friend's misfortune of using it.  Some parts of his wall cracked and peeled within a couple days (although I think that might be because he didn't do a good job of cleaning the walls before painting) and then there were other parts where you could still see the original wall color underneath the paint.  And it's not like he was trying to cover a really dark wall with a light/bright color......was going from a medium shade of green to a dark beige/tan. 

[Tomahawk]

My furnace went out. The auto fan works, but when I turn it on it blows only cold air. When I switch the gas off then back on, it sounds like the fan or whatever to expel the extra gas is working, but I'm definitely not getting any visible flame.

I'm hoping it's just a sensor or at most the electric ignitor...definitely don't want to buy a new furnace

[reese125]

just had this problem. very easy to fix.

its your thermal flame sensor that has build up and is not allowing the flame to ignite. looks like this if its a newer model furnace. the older furnances have a thermocoupler.



turn gas and heat off....lift the furnace panel up, find the flame sensor thats hanging down over one of the blowers, unscrew it (should be one screw) and use either sand paper or a nail filer and brush the end of the metal rod good (better yet just brush the whole rod). screw it back on. turn gas back on, turn heat back on....magic.

[Tomahawk]

Holy shtein that worked....thanks for the tip

[SunMo]

it warms my hear to see helping out one another

[MMH]

Holy shtein that worked....thanks for the tip

Yeah, cause this would be a great night not to have a furnace.

[Seabiscuit36]

shtein, double post. 

[Tomahawk]

Holy shtein that worked....thanks for the tip

Yeah, cause this would be a great night not to have a furnace.

Better than now...a co-worker had his heat exchanger on his furnace go out and it's -5

[Seabiscuit36]

Need help wiring a ceiling fan.  I may be part retarded from a party last night, but i'm trying to wire a ceiling fan to an outlet with two switches.  The Left switch controls the Red wire, the Right switch controls the Black Wire.  Both become hot when i flip the switches obviously.  As always there is a standard ground wire, and then there is a White wire that doesn't have any juice on it. 

The ceiling fan itself has a Blue wire(for lights) a Black Wire (for the fan motor) and a white wire which i'm not sure what its for.  How do i wire this up so the left(red hot wire) controls the light, and the right switch controls the fan? 

[Diomedes]

I'd just connect wires until it worked.

I'm not an electrician.

[SD]

igy is the resident expert on the Wire

[ice grillin you]

the different colored wires are out there....its either play or get played....its that simple

[Seabiscuit36]

Figured it out, the DIO method worked fine. 

[Diomedes]

Of course it did, you're not gonna blow anything up.

Yay you.

[Seabiscuit36]

Thanks Dad