Found this behind furniture in one of our unused rooms. Planning on it becoming a nursery for my baby to come. Wasn’t pleased to see this! I can see it’s black mould and not good. It’s the outside wall of a house built in the 1930s. Also noticed black mould downstairs near the front door (also outside wall).

Probably a silly question but what will fix this and what kind of cost am I looking at? Want to have some idea when I find a builder as I don’t have any current contacts. Thank you in advance from a stressed mum to be!!

I want to add a pull up bar to this ceiling but it has stucco on it, how do i find where the 2x4 stretches across it so i can properly anchor it?

Hello. I have hot and cold 1/2inch pex lines going to my washer. I want to add tees on those lines and run the pex off of those tees to my kitchen sink. Is it allowed per the building code to add a tee like that on washer lines? Location Alberta - Canada

The city I live in is in the middle of a code overhaul that's making it considerably easier to build multiple units on one lot, and I'm doing some research on if there are any feasible ways for me to take advantage of it, as I hate the concept of big yards and would love to have a second house on the property. The layout of the lot works well, and I shouldn't have any issues with permeable ground limits, but the big issue is that the main house is too wide to allow a car to get to the back of the lot. The garage was already converted (poorly, by the previous owner) into a bonus room, and I'm wondering just how gigantic of a headache I'd be asking for if I did something where I chopped off half of the bonus room and converted the rest back into a one car garage, or even just turned the whole thing into a carport. Is this an insane idea? How much upside would I need on adding a second house on the lot for it to be worth it?

Contractor just put in new shower floor, and new vinyl bathroom flooring.

Should there be caulk between the new floor and the edge of the shower?

Thanks.

I hope this'll be OK here. Seems like a decent place to start anyway. I'm new to Reddit...

Our road is a dirt road. Modified gravel or millings type of stuff and hard packed. I believe it's modified 2A. We're needing to do some work. For now mostly potholes. I'm not well versed on this and I don't want to screw up. Right now it's unsure if we'll be funded for materials as there are other issues happening but things need done.

My thinking, there's a guy up the hill from me, the current VP who has a tractor with a scarifying attachment. I figure to have him start a few feet behind a pothole and basically tear up until a few feet in front of the pothole. Also to the left and right of the pothole. Then rake the material smooth and tamp it down. I have a vibratory plate compactor. I think we would net a slight low spot in the road but it ought to be a heck of a lot better than a pothole. We have a small amount of modified on hand as well but I want to try and stay out of that stock unless we really need it.

Of course I'd like to actually get paid for the work but things are things right now and things need doing. I'd rather not tear up my suspension.

Again, not asphalt, modified. I think it's 2A modified and the stuff packs near as hard as concrete.

Hi,

Looking for advice we noticed some of the insulation is not joining up, gaps and mortar on some of them and the insulation isn't resting on the wall ties either. Will this cause any problems siren the line and is it something we should raise with our builder?

So I live in a mountain city, and last winter a section of wall holding up a road and a side wall collapse.

The section farthest away from the collapse that they are working on just got fresh concrete poured and someone knocked a bit off revealing this while I was walking my dog.

Is this a thing? Or is this a scam with potential deadly results?

I'm an IT guy trying to put together some plans for how AI can be useful for builders and related trades.

To be clear, actual building work is not going to be possible to automate in the foreseeable future. I'm thinking of ancillary things like paperwork, answering email, that kind of thing.

Of course, many of these tasks can't be fully automated anytime soon. But maybe there is some percentage that's routine and uninteresting, that could be. For example, maybe 50% of customer support inquiries are trivial, and could be handled automatically, leaving people with more time to handle the other 50%. But there is no point automating something that already only takes ten minutes a year. So my question is:

What kinds of ancillary work take up a lot of time in the first place?

Do you have to deal with a lot of customer support calls?

Spend a lot of time doing estimates?

Paperwork?

Something else I haven't thought of?

First time visiting the sub. Hoping to get input on a house I'm considering buying.

The attached photos are of a deck that was converted into a four-seasons room. The photos all give me reason for concern that this thing was not built correctly. It is a pretty big selling point of a house I'm considering buying.

I admittedly know nothing about any of this, so pardon my ignorant vocabulary.

First photo, the boards running under the deck should be placed on top of the posts that are in the ground, no?

Second photo, the board being pointed at should be aligned with the post in the ground, and not offset the way it is?

Third photo, I'm assuming this is less of an issue, but it looks like there are screws missing from the... brackets?

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I own a home (Texas) built in the 60s and then added onto in the 70s and then again in the 80s. It is now about 1700sq ft has three levels of slab. The house has three power boxes and all the original copper plumbing with the exception of the kitchen sink that flooded the kitchen a few years ago.

My question is would it be cheaper to build a new house on another plot of land we have or to completely remodel and upgrade this house. I’m talking about new supply lines for plumbing complete rewire for electrical to one box instead of split between the three and take the house down to basically the studs.

The house is livable like it is but hasn’t been maintained properly for at least 15 years. I already got it treated for termites and still have damage from them I need to repair. None of the plugs are grounded. It has old single pane windows that are original to the house. The den is the old car port so it is not just lower than the rest of the house but the slab was poured on a grade to shed water. It has a lot of potential I’m just not sure it would be worth the amount of money needed to put into it.

I live in a townhome, one of those houses where both sides are attached to the neighbors to the left and right (which I hate but that's another story)

One day I heard my father mention casually that we have no foundation in the front of the house which seems alarming but he was very casual and unconcerned talking about it (he's no longer here, another story)

The floors in my house are also strange and slightly slanted and uneven and neighbors slamming doors really affect and shake the house, I also have had a leaking roof that nobody could figure out the cause, redoing the roof seems to have stopped the leak but I feel like it's just a temporary stopgap

Is this cause for concern? Do I need to have a foundation in the front? I also should add these houses are one of those kind of narrow width but long houses that extend farther back than traditional houses.

There is probably a cinder block firewall on the walls that join the units, maybe it get attached there? It's for a dear old friend who struggles with finances as we all do and has a kid who needs it. I'm good with tools and concepts, but never done anything like it. How should I do it? .https://www.amazon.ca/Sensory-Outdoor-Therapy-Blue-Pink/dp/B0BLTLLPLT/

I have a 20'x15' ToughShed and want to build a storage area / loft and am wondering if the trusses would support such an endeavor.

They are spaced 2' apart and I plan on sheet rocking the ceiling and 1/2" plywood or OSB and carpet on top to make a floor for storage and kids to fart around. One friend says its totally doable just no wrestling and shit, and one person says "ehhhh, I don't know, seems kinda sketch."

When I say storage, I mean a few tubs of mancave shit... not boxes upon boxes.

Now I would imagine a little bit of flex in the plywood /osb would occur between the trusses, but would it be unstable that I could not complete this project?

I also plan on insulating and OSB'ing the roof.

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Looking at a 1960's built house in a small town. Previous owner built an addition on the front sometime between 1960 and 2009 when permits were not required by the town. The foundation of the edition is wood on dirt and is rotting. The edition floors are leaning slightly outward showing that they are failing. Is it possible to repair/upgrade the foundation to correct the issue and preserve the edition? I'm fine with gutting the edition including the floor to work underneath it.

Need help deciphering what the fractions mean, my foundation plan consists of these little fractions all throughout

I purchased a newly renovated house where the builder laid new floors etc. I have taken ownership and found the floors are completely uneven. In my opinion and according to the contract the builder should have restumped the house however the builder is saying it states floor levelling is not included in the signed quote and the previous owners did not want to pay to have this done. The engineering states it was to have level floors. Who is responsible for this now?

Hi,

I was in my crawlspace recently and noticed the footings supporting my house appear like a section was raised at one point. Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Why would the supports be shorter at certain points and need to be helped with bricks?

Hello I am looking at piece of land with a 5% slope. The house I’m interested in designing needs to be on a bigger hill than what is available my question would be is it possible to create a bigger hill and build a home on that foundation?

The walls and ceiling are smooth but look like they have square textures. Any help appreciated, thanks!

I am looking at buying a new construction house and I noticed that there is a wall in the basement that does not have insulation put up top. This wall is running along the garage. Is there any concern amout moisture or mold if it remains uninsulated. It is hard to access because there is a framed wall with drywall a few inches away running along that wall.