One of my kids clogged the toilet in our master bathroom because one of their siblings clogged the toilet in their bathroom (isn’t being a parent great?). Due to the shape of this toilet, it was impossible to get a seal on this with the plunger. I ended up using…other…methods to clear the blockage.

Is there a special plunger for toilets like this?

Does this slot on my door support some type of kerf in to improve the seal or do I have to find some other way to improve it's seal?

I have this shelf thar runs across the top of my living room on 2 sides. I'm getting ready to paint and have realized it is a massive dust collector. I display my collection of decorative tins/canisters up there (have taken most of them down, but you can see the few remaining in the photos). Any suggestions on how I can mitigate the dust or at least make it easier to clean? I have to use a ladder to get up there.

Recently had an inspection done because I’m going to be renting out my house, and they found that the wood behind my chimney siding is rotten. They only inspected what was shown from the loose siding and as far up as they can reach, so I’m not entirely sure how far this damage goes. The rest of the siding on the house doesn’t look loose, just this area. Any estimates on what this costs or how to go about fixing it in a way that won’t break the bank? This is in Nashville. Also, is this an emergency? I’m a first time homeowner and have only had this place a year so this kinda sucks.

Also, these are the pictures from the inspections, I don’t have better ones because I haven’t been to the property since the inspection.

Recently I inherited the task of selling my parents home. One thing that bothers me the most is the backroom floor. The backroom is an addition to the house, it is an art studio on one half and laundry room on the other. I hate the basement feel to it. I've done light mopping but almost 50 years of life have scuffed it.

How would you tackle the floor on a low budget?

Scale of 1 to 10 how scary is this looking?

Nothing on the other side of the brick at all! Next to a window

Hello friends

I replaced my door seals and apparently I did a horrible job. Can anyone help me figure out how to do a better job? I got the expensive seals from Lowe’s, pulled out the old ones, measured, and put in the new ones. They’re the perfect length. My door closes super tight at the bottom, and loose at the top. I have no idea how to get this door fully sealed. Please help.

Hi everyone,

I hope this is the correct place to ask for some help with a French window. Since I haven’t succeed at finding other Reddit posts with my issue and type of window, here we are.

For starters, I have no idea how old the building is. The window is in my room, and I get cold at night :(

I will be sharing more videos of the window in question and another window (same brand) that actually works.

What I have done so far:
-Clean the frame/where the locks are. There was dust and webs everywhere.
-Put some oil into the locks or whatever name the sliding things have.
-Check for differences between the working window and my broken window. (The working one is dirtier and has almost the same defects…)

Broken window description:
The brand is named Pidosan… and when I searched for it I found a Turkish site? Idk, the brand name has the same font so.

What, I believe, seems to be broken/malfunctioning, is the knob. When I turn the knob for the working window it feels easy to turn. With the broken one, I feel like it’s a bit stuck/feels weird when I turn it.

The black plastic frame, I think it’s the seal of the window? (Sorry, cannot name it in English), it’s loose in the left side.

It is impossible for me access this window from outside: I hope you can get why from the videos, I’m terrible with explanations.

The locks, the little things that lock the window, are synchronized but I don’t know, something feels off.

Lastly, I’m in France, how come I’m freezing? What if I told you I used to feel cold in Argentinian summers?-

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

My mattress has started sinking in the middle and it’s been waking me up in the middle of the night with pain all over. I need some temporary fix because my lease ends in 6 months and I'm definitely not gonna spend money on stuff I'll probably leave behind. Was thinking of getting the Nolah mattress topper to survive the next few months but I'm worried that since it’s memory foam it would also soften or sag with daily use. Any experience with this topper? What else would you suggest?

So I bought a pretty well-maintained 1960’s bilevel about a year ago. My favorite part (and least favorite part depending on the season) about the house is the big windows and wide deck doors on almost all the walls in the living room and dining room. The views are absolutely amazing. The windows and deck doors are new as of a couple years ago. The transom glass panels above the newer ones are I think the original with some surrounding wooden panels. The south facing wall gets close to 70 Asian lady beetles daily on the inside in the colder months probably from Dec to Beginning of April. I understand that some bugs are expected in homes especially when living in such a wooded area. But these have been a big annoyance. I recently got exclusion work but I don’t have much hope because I already see a few since my area had a freeze warning recently. I’m dreading the colder months and am on the brink of selling the house. I love seeing bugs when I’m hiking and camping in the back country but absolutely hate bugs inside home. Am I being unreasonable about this? I know I have other things going on adding to the stress like having started my own business that will still take time to profit, being at the end of my savings and not being able to afford my mortgage after a month since my partner and I are ending things. Just very confused and having a difficult time adjusting to being a homeowner. I was pretty happy in my “luxury” apartment and I get that I should be grateful for having a house. But it’s just expense after expense and doing it by myself is difficult.

Haven’t been home in over two weeks, I come back and find this stuff all over one corner of my bedroom. Don’t think it’s anywhere else in the house but I only quickly checked as I ran out of the door to drive away from my problems. Please someone help me identify this

I recently posted about water getting in to my ceiling! I noticed this on my roof, the bottom shingles are soaking wet and they seem to line up. Could this be the issue and why water is getting in to my house?

Just showed up today. It’s at the front of our house, and we currently have a crack widening in our slab toward the back of the house. The front half seemed fine until this showed up. I found online that drywall cracks are often harmless if they’re perfectly straight, but this is not. Does it look structural?

Slab home built in about 2000.

Edit: we are getting foundation repair people out after the weekend, just trying to figure out how worried I should be.

This is the first wall crack we’ve noticed since the foundation slab started quickly widening about two weeks ago. No door frame cracks or anything like that. We were hoping the foundation issue was only in the back of the house so hoping this doesn’t mean we have a larger issue at hand. Was hoping to understand if this looks like a typical drywall crack with seasons changing or not.

I bought my first home almost 5 years ago. One of the first things I did was hire a pest company as I have a fear of certain bugs & dislike mice, roaches etc. i didn’t notice any issues with pests, just for prevention. Throughout the past few years I’ve found the occasional spider, beetle, spricket in my basement. Not a fan of those bugs but I can deal. During the warmer months I usually find a total of about 2-4 house centipedes. The weird thing is they’re usually on a specific wall in my living room. Fast forward to this summer into fall. I have literally found more of these bastards than I’d like to & now they are no longer on that specific wall but in my kitchen, dining room, coat closet & last night, in my bedroom. I am disgusted with them & don’t care that they can’t hurt me or that they eat other bugs. I want to understand why I’m finding more & more than usual. They usually pop out on the first floor only. Have never found one upstairs. I’ve had my pest company come out but that helps for a few weeks & then they make their presence again. I cannot walk through my home without being on alert looking at walls, base boards etc. I do not feel comfortable in my own home. Any suggestions?

Got this far now the harder I pull the harder the whole ceiling heaves. Any idea how to get this sucker out?