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Advice Needed for leaning CMU Perimeter Wall
Property: Mid-50s home, Los Angeles County.
Issue: Rear perimeter CMU wall (wholly owned) leaning 12–14° into the neighbor's yard.
Potential Factors:
A stump from a mature Schefflera in the right corner. A 35-year-old orange tree (1' from rear wall, 10' from side wall). A former large tree on the neighbor's side (right corner). Questions:...

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Are you a porch person?
I love porches, especially old-fashioned front porches. I do appreciate the ones near or under trees.

And tin roofs are the best, to my way of thinking. What are your favorite porches, and are you a porch person?

Here are a few for inspiration. Show off your porches, or porches you like.


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Prep work for front walk pavers: How much of this clay/shale should I dig out before putting down process stone?
I am planning to put down pavers for my front sidewalk. Going through the usual steps of process stone, concrete sand, pavers, polymeric sand, etc.

I have dug up and removed all the cracked asphalt that was there previously.

I have a number of questions as I dig out the area 6-9 inches below grade. As I dig down, I am finding that there is a lot of stone of var...

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Sewage smell in bathroom
Hey friend, text me today about a sewage smell in his bathroom. I have not seen it yet, but will look at it Monday.

He has a three level condominium and the smell would be on the first floor bathroom. This is ground level in bathroom has just a sink and commode. There are no floor drains on that level except for one in the area where his mechanicals are. He has run wate...

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This week's project.... leaky water valve
It's just another leaky water valve like to many others in this old house. I've fixed several already but this is a different one. I've done sinks and toilet water supply line valves but not quite sure about this kind. Should I just replace the entire faucet or can I easily replace the rubber seals? It is the faucet on the left that is leaking.

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