Home Improvements

I am volunteering at Habitat for Humanity Nova Scotia, currently building a semi. A large union, commercial oriented electrical contractor has come on board supplying materials and labour. They are crea...

0 July 10, 2018

I need example of written contract with plumber. Job is in condominium therefore it has to specify warranty for labor, material and for how long. In case of damage, flood in my property and to other pro...

2 July 10, 2018

I have a closet that is about 12 feet long and has two doors, one on each side. I have a horizontal poll that goes accross with a wire shelf on top. I would like to rearrange the inside of the closet so I...

0 July 9, 2018

Hi All, I had a deck built in Winnipeg, MB. The plat form of the deck itself looked great but the one corner sank. Once the contractor heard of the problem, he immediately made arrangements to c...

4 July 9, 2018

Backyard patio heaves badly in winter. the one side of house is a shared hill going into backyard. There is slight swale going down hill, but want to slow down water problem at bottom to put in a floating d...

0 July 9, 2018

How much would it cost aprox. to finish a 10 by 10 bedroom. Drywall, tape and first coat of mud done. Toronto...

2 July 9, 2018

Existing serviced home located in Mississauga. Looking for companies or GCs that provide design/build services for new homes. Existing house to be demolished and new home built. I am currently looking at th...

4 July 9, 2018

Me and my co worker have been pricing most jobs at , material cost , plus an hourly rate for the 2 of us ( 70$ / hour ) So 35 dollars an hour each. Is this to high to ask for such jo...

6 July 6, 2018

Our house has a rigid sun tunnel installed, and when my dad took the diffuser plate off to clean it, the whole metal tube fell out. Now we can’t get it back in. What’s the best way to re-place it back i...

0 July 5, 2018

is 3 1/2 feet deep enough when building we are using 6/6 post...

4 July 6, 2018

There is a set of glass doors between my room and my roommate. It's not ideal, but it's San Francisco - what can you do! I do, however, need a way to cover the doors so we can't see ...

2 July 5, 2018

We recently bought a home with an old jacuzzi tub. It is wired to a 15 amp circuit breaker, but in between the circuit breaker and the tub is a 20 amp GFCI receptacle and a 20 amp timer switch. The gauge of...

4 July 9, 2018

We have contractors that have abandoned their work at our house. They won't communicate with us. How can we get our things back from them? They have some of the items we bought....

3 July 6, 2018

Old floor removed the subfloor is in good shape. Just looking at what labour should cost to install 600 square feet or if I should tackle it myself. ...

2 July 4, 2018

We hired a company to install 5 windows. After some back and forth where we changed the ratio of the transom over picture and transom over casement (email supported) we signed a contract and paid the d...

2 July 4, 2018

No mechanical needed, just an open concept basement....

7 July 7, 2018

We are in Ontario, Canada. The fence company that we hired changed a post that belonged to our neighbors and us. They did not ask us or the neighbors for permission. In doing so they put it back 7 cent...

2 July 3, 2018

I would like to add a whole house surge protector. The surge protector call for a double pole 20A breaker which as luck would have it I have no empty slots. What I do have at the very top of my panel is a dou...

2 July 3, 2018

how much to install fences, 10 panels and 11 posts, i can get the material myself i just need someone to take out the old one and install the new one, the panels are 6' tall and 8' long and ...

4 August 24, 2018

What's a reasonable cost to excavate and then pour a concrete floor, footings and foundation? Area is 12x16 - 8 feet deep. Access to the area is 43 inches wide. ...

0 July 2, 2018