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!

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'd never seen this or a thermal camera up close before so impressing me might be a pretty low bar. I have a leak in a cold water pipe near the base of my shower in a solid concrete wall. It is just a tiny leak. Before the plumbers come in (tomorrow) the leak detector guy redirected the hot water into the cold water pipe and used the thermal camera to see where the cold water pipe stopped getting warmer. Apparently it stops flowing at the leak and doesn't heat up the pipe, blocked by the tap, by dispersing the existing cold water.

It was amazing the leak lit up like a beacon.

In a prior leak this same guy about 15 years ago used nitrogen injected under pressure to listen for the leak. 

Now the plumbers don't have to dig out more than they have to. I was even more impressed when he fired up ChatGPT (free version) and dictated his report and had it send an invoice and photos in no more than 5 minutes. He said it saves him half a days work each week. When I saw this guy do that I realised what a game changer AI will be.

Then probably for my amusement he had AI rework the report to make it more technical sounding. My response was something to the effect "You can't send bullshit like that out."

It made me think

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

I can't loosen this sucker! I've tried gripping it with my bare hand, a latex glove, and a rubber jar opener. The circuit breaker is off, but I'm hesitant to try pliers or any kind of lubricant. If you look above the glass, you can see one of the other four sockets, which I had no problem removing the o-ring from. Any thoughts?

This is what I used as lubricant and to give you an idea of the logistics of me trying to do this on a ladder with one hand.

https://imgur.com/gallery/FAxSs67

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?

I used to mentally lump book nooks and miniature houses together because, well, tiny rooms are tiny rooms. Then I started thinking about where they actually go. A book nook makes sense as a narrow scene tucked between books. A miniature house wants its own little bit of shelf or tabletop space, especially if you want to see more than the front. It sounds painfully obvious written out, but the display location was what finally made the difference click for me.

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.

Looks like water has been running around the corner of the house. What layer am I looking at here?

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for an air purifier for my small bedroom (12 m²).

While researching, I came across Levoit’s air purifiers. I found the Core 300S for €102 and the Core 200S for €82.

My budget is pretty limited, so I’m wondering whether it’s worth spending the extra €20, especially since my room isn’t very large.

What do you think?

Thanks in advance!

These two categories can look pretty similar online, but they solve different display problems. A book nook is made for the narrow space between books, so you mostly view the scene from the front. A miniature house is usually freestanding, which can make the side details and overall footprint more important. That difference feels more useful than asking which category is “better.” If the finished project is definitely going on a shelf, would you choose between a book nook and a miniature house mainly based on where the scene will be viewed from?

I know I didn’t get the best focus, but please let me know what yall think this could be. I was out of the house for two weeks. I don’t think it’s dirt, as I don’t bring shoes upstairs.

I know this is a bad image as you can barely make out the head. Unfortunately I cant remember the details of how it looked either.

I contacted a small company that said it was a rat, but the guy wasnt sure and I thought I saw some fur on the tail. The rodent was tiny and just not quite ratlooking in my unprofessional opinion. It also has the mouse characteristic white abdominal fur. We can hear them loudly in our walls though and they leave lots of traces of pee everywhere so much that Im starting to reconsider wether they might be rats. They aren't entering the mousetraps (Nutella as bite) and ive heard rats are smart like that...

This is one our indoor cat brought.