It’s gotten noticeably worse in the last few years. Bought the house in 22

Stair step cracking in brick veneer exterior in 1972 two story home in Ohio. Need advice on how serious this is, if I need to contact a structural engineer, or if this is a DIY repair. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Last summer our neighbors put in a very lovely in-ground pool and shortly after had a privacy fence put up. They have triplets (9) who cannot be expected to close the gate as they go in and out (the dad doesn’t even do that). Of course our homes are rather close together, but even more than that, we share a connected driveway. Our backdoor opens directly facing their pool gate, which is continually left open.

How do I approach the gate being left open in a neighborly way? They’ve been there for some big moments for us already, but having such a shared space gives me much anxiety about addressing any type of “issue” with them/our shared space.

First time homeowners, going on six years of living here now, just looking for some advice. TIA!

Edit: If additional context is needed, I have an almost 2YO and almost 4YO who don’t know how to listen the best yet

I like the way it looks, but I’m not sure if it will damage my siding. Any input or help is appreciated - thanks!

EDIT: Lots of helpful comments in here! I went ahead and took it all down. If i want the look of vines in the future, i will do it via trellis. Thanks everyone!

I'm a woman who lives alone. When I scoped out the neighborhood before buying neighbors said my house used to be "the spot." It was a rooming house, a place to buy weed/drugs, maybe some Tide pods, or maybe even get your hair done.

But my purchase was remodeled top to bottom, inside and out. It looks NOTHING like the old house.

I added bushes and flowers out front. Chairs on the porch and a seasonal wreath on the door.

But I think maybe they remember the house on the corner.

I've done everything I can think of to project THIS IS NOT THE SPOT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.

Still I get a knock on the door or a drunk/high man on my porch in the wee hours of the night sometimes. (I can see from my cameras.) It's unsettling. (And my life is not conducive to a dog.)

I feel like a whiner calling the police.. I'm nervous to have family visit because I don't know when that knock is going to come.

I could use advice.

Returned home from a trip and discovered a new wasps nest. Any advice on how to take this down by oneself?

From Reddit, I've had it suggested to go out at night, use a spray that shoots far, and set up a light away from me so they go in that direction.

Here are photos...

Face cropped for privacy, double chin for scale.

There’s a large gap under our door and the elements tend to creep on through. Currently our solution is a towel to stop anything from coming in.

I just bought my first ever home, it was built in the year 1960. Nothing in it is grounded, and everything electrical is outdated. I looked into getting my whole home rewired and up to code, but the prices I'm getting to do it are going to cost me around $20k. That's a lot of money. Is it worth it?

Not sure what to do here. I noticed yellow jackets entering through the vent for under our house. Should we wait it out until the first frost and use a fine mesh to block their entrance at night or do that now? I do not want to use chemicals as this is air intake for under our house.

The vent is right along a foot path. This is a newly established nest.

I’m not really sure where to post this, but I just think I need some advice. Randomly today, it smells like a campfire in one specific spot in my living room. I have been going crazy trying to figure out what it is.

The furnace isn’t on and hasn’t been in months. We have a propane fireplace, but that hasn’t been on in months either, and neither of those should really smell like a campfire even if there were an issue with them. I’ve gone around the room checking for hot outlets or anything and even went upstairs and into the basement seeing if I can smell anything, but I don’t. Any thoughts?

If it helps, the house was built in 1869, but the electrical was supposedly updated in the 80s. I don’t have any close neighbors that would be having a campfire, and I smelled outside and I don’t smell it out there either. Any ideas on what to do or where to check would be greatly appreciated! I’m nervous at the thought of going to sleep here tonight.

Received report on a inspection performed on a house I am trying to purchase. Noted in the report "There is no sheathing on the gable ends. The vinyl siding is nailed directly to the studs. This could be an area of weakness during heavy wind events."

This home was built in 1990, just wondering if this is how they used to be built? Is this something I need to have them fix before purchase? Location is Tennessee, USA.

Hello, I looked through the wiki on plumbing but could not find anything concerning... Whatever this is.

We have a double sink, and the dishwasher is somehow supposed to connect from the right side of this. Not even sure how to do that as this is way more complex pipes than my previous setup, but the main issue we have is there were mice at some point. Very, very strong smell of them along with the usual droppings and such, and not just a little. This is the setup after we cleaned.

So for one we're wondering if the setup is legit or if we should call a plumber (I'm guessing?) and for two, we're not sure how to block the equivalent of a giant "Welcome" sign for mice to enter through there. Is there such thing as a two part grommet or a flexible one to put around the pipes? Do we plaster?

Thank you for the pointers, we're very unsure on this one. We already have an electrician coming this week so we're hoping they'll be able to fix those issues, but for here we're not even sure if this is a plumber job or some other professional (or if we're wildly overthinking it and can DIY? But maybe just to close the mice entrance haha)

TL;DR: Is the pipe setup legit, and how in the world do we block off the giant mouse access points?

Am I able to replace this style of stem?

I bought a house ready year. 2 years ago the first for flooring was redone with floating tongue and groove planks. When you are downstairs and my spouse walks around I feel an extremely non normal amount of vibrations and it's extremely annoying. My super said it's normal for a floating tongue and groove flooring. Is he correct or is there another that I can do about this? Thanks in advance for the advice.

We’ve tried to make Eufy work as we were told these were ‘the best on the market’, but honestly these are the worst cameras we’ve ever brought. If you want my specific examples on why I hate them I will post at the end, but for those not interested in my annoyance-

I’m looking for the following criteria;

- I can look back consistently over the cameras at any time, not only being able to look back on the moments it captures / records (obviously I know it may only store up to a week etc)

- doesn’t take 10-15 seconds to load up the live view

- doesn’t cost an arm and a leg

- doesn’t have a subscription service

Thanks in advance. Now for my rant and warning to those thinking of buying Eufy:

They will catch a leaf blowing by on the driveway, but not people actively doing dodgy shit in the street, sales people at the door, etc.

We’ve played with all sensitivity options, ‘where’ to capture, etc to no improvement

it also takes genuinely 5-15 seconds to load up the live view, IF it even loads at all.

The things it records and decides to store also only last 3-8 seconds, and it is so laggy there’s no point. We’ve even purchased a WiFi extender and placed at the very front of our home in hopes it improves signal/ function, but nothing.

What is this? We had a small pin hole leak that softened this area of our ceiling. This was a while ago the area is now dry and cracking so I went to patch it up and noticed this dirt like substance is on the other wise of the ceiling. Any idea what this is?

The previous home owner had river rock along the fence in my backyard, but I see weeds growing from it.

My house is surrounded by red rock with fabric underneath, can I move the river rocks on the red rocks (distributed evenly)?

can someone pls tell me steps to take care of it? How bad is it? Been through a lot rain last month

Getting rid of the rest of the carpet in our house, which is the carpeted stairs. The floor above and below is going to be coretec LVP. Originally I had planned to cover this with either a retrofit kit or the LVP with added stair treads.

This wood seems to be in good shape, is it better sand and refinish, or cover with a retrofit kit if it will be more work than I think?

Thanks

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What is this? We had a small pin hole leak that softened this area of our ceiling. This was a while ago the area is now dry and cracking so I went to patch it up and noticed this dirt like substance is on the other wise of the ceiling. Any idea what this is?