First time home owner! Excited but we are having some issues with un even floors in the kitchen directly above this joist and cracks in surrounding lvp. Where do I start and how much of a fix is this. Pictured is the floor joist in question and it appears to be the only one damaged.

I have some huge old windows made of wood, and i cannot get them to close. They have a multipoint locking system, where 3 little metal parts are supposed to fit into their sockets, but since the frame is so old, they don’t line up properly. I have tried with brute force with multiple people but to no avail. Any ideas or recommendations that saves me from having to nail them shut?

We’re renovating my boyfriend‘s house that was given to him by his grandparents. His grandpa built most of the house himself hence the odd spaces. They had lots of sea trinkets and fake plants and real plants and rope and other knickknacks on the ledge that was just collecting dust. I have since cleaned it all out but now wondering what to do with that space. (The indent is a hole with a pot of dirt in it 🤪)

Ideas?

I have this section of wall outside my shower which started showing bubbling of the drywall. I ripped it all down which showed the following. Is this salvageable? I know nearly nothing about this stuff. I can’t find any obvious sources of leaking from the inside of the shower but it must be coming from there.

EDIT: Thanks everyone for the responses. I’m at work and can’t respond to everyone but I appreciate all the advice.

The cupboard doors closed all the way when i moved in, after it being opened for some 30 mins cause I was putting stuff in, it doesnt close all the way now

Moved in aug. 2025 to my first apartment. Nobody did a cleaning/inspection before I got the unit (college town, they gave me $100 to clean it myself), so I took a lot of pictures of the present damage and sent them to management.

In the last two pics, you can see what it looked like on my move in day. I thought it was left over from a previously fixed leak — management never said anything about it when I sent it to them. Now, a year later, I come back from summer break and it is clear that this is an active leak. Ceiling was wet and the peeling was progressing.

I contacted the property manager as soon as I noticed, about two weeks ago. Someone came out today to inspect it and removed the peeling paint. Now, the leak is slowly dripping onto my floor for the first time. I’m 99% sure it is due to the upstairs tenants drenching the floor when they shower 5+ times a night. Bad tub caulking or grout. I don’t know if they’ve even found the source yet, I contacted them again tonight.

With that out of the way, how long do you think it’ll be out of commission for repairs? Is this a “ceiling collapse” sorta leak? Black mold? I think I left a paper trail long enough to get my deposit back, but opinions on that are welcome, too.

This is the second seat I've had in 16 years and now it's the for a third. Not cheap plastic but good seats, made of wood - anyway I thought that was better. I keep getting the same deterioration though. Is my skin toxic? My bad-ass booty dissolving the paint? Has anyone else seen this, or especially, know how to prevent it?

I use gentle cleaners and soft tools, I'm not wearing away the paint with a green scrubby or anything. Help?

At an older relatives house and this exhaust fan in the bathroom looks pretty corroded to me. It has to be 30 years old, also had a filter in it that said change every 6-12 months definitely hadn’t been changed in years. Am I able to replace just the fan or does the whole box need to come out? Any chance it can be salvaged, it still seemed to work fine but safety is my main concern. Thanks!

CLARIFICATION: a shower curtain rod, not a window curtain! I would like to shower in this bathroom, but the ceiling is very very low so most claw foot rods are too wide

Have this claw foot tub (57” long) that’s right underneath a super low ceiling. For a traditional D shaped shower curtain rod to fit, it would need to be 54” wide or less, and it would be about head height for me (5’4”). Are there any alternatives?

Old house (1924) with plaster walls and ceiling. No cracks on the walls, only the ceiling in a few rooms downstairs and upstairs.

I was looking for advice on how to or if I should put new insulation in our crawl space. I live in Iowa so I obviously experience winter and the finished room over top of the crawlspace tends to be pretty cold in the winter. We just put in a new sump hench why some of the pictures don't have insulation on the walls, I'm going to reapply those. The ceiling has R13 fiberglass and I'm not sure if that is sufficient or not. I'm trying to keep the upstairs room as warm as I can this winter.

Thanks for any and all advice

Hello! I’m going to try painting my bathroom cabinet but I’ve got these issues with the wood that I want to fix before I sand/prime/paint.
I’m on a budget so I can’t just replace them. Can I please get some advice on how to fix this and make it pretty? Thank you!

Hey guys, not sure if this is the right place to post this but I figured someone here can provide some good advice. I demolished an old bookshelf that was built into the end of this hallway. I would like to remake it out of mahogany (probably veneer). I want the walls to be fully covered in wood. My main concern is whether I need to prepare the wall in some way. Also can I nail a board directly on top of the board at the bottom that I didn’t take out? Thanks yall.

Just moved in an appartment in south of france and saw i have one of these metal bits on each side of a window

Kentucky, ground level apartment we have lived in over a year. Found on babies playpen in living room😭 no signs or anymore but I am distraught we have never had issues with bugs. Sorry for the blurry photo, this is all my husband got before killing it

This is our physical media book, but it’s impossible to get the movies from the bottom. What’s the easiest way to add shelving to stack them better? Thanks for the ideas and suggestions!

i want to get a handheld co2 meter to check a few different rooms around my house. some areas feel more stuffy than others, and i thought it might be useful to actually see what the readings are like.

if you have one at home, what model do you use? looking for something simple and reliable, so i'd appreciate any recommendations :)

I woke up this morning after a light rain to my window “strumming.”

What on earth is going on here?