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  Bleach for black mold?

  I know that bleach will make the area appear clean but it won’t kill the mold. So I’m thinking about using hydrogen peroxide to kill the mold, but I read that bleach and hydrogen peroxide shouldn’t be mixed. Can I spray one first and then the other after? Or would it cause the same reaction as mixing them together? 

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  Would anybody with plumbing experience be able to tell from this photo, which water valve would be hot and cold?

  Would anybody with plumbing experience be able to tell from this photo which water valve would be hot and cold?

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  Will a leaking septic tank, or leach field contaminate ground water?

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  What would you do if your water meter trickled  1/100th of a cu. ft every 20-30 seconds but you couldnt find a leak anywhere under the house?

  or in the walls. Pier and beam. Do I have to pay a plumber to find it? How do they find it if it's not visible anywhere? Without special equipment of some sort, do they suggest being paid thousands of dollars to start digging up the yard, all the way from the curb, under the house to the back of the house, looking for a leak underground? It's galvanized pipe that doesn't even come up out of the ground until the back of the house cause that's where the kitchen and bath are. House is 102 yrs old. Galvanized pipe with two leaks so far after the arctic blast but I fixed those. No water sounds or visible leaks now anywhere. The whole system needs to be ripped out and replaced with PVC or PEX, but I don't really want to invest more in the house. I'm afraid to even ask how much it would cost to do that. 

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  Toilet tank empties by itself slowly, doesn't leak into bowl, and bowl holds water fine. I have to tap the level gage to fill tank and flush?

  I'll go to flush my toilet (there is water in the bowl) and realize the tank is empty. I tap or touch the water level adjuster and water fills the tank and I flush. After I flush the tank fills again. If I stay and watch the tanks water level very slowly goes down. The water that is leaving the tank does not go into the bowl and the tank doesn't refill after this slow leak happens. Any ideas? 

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  Can I make Hot Coco in my hot water heater?

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  That's how willy wonka does it.

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  Do you think anti freeze got in my well?

  Almost a year ago, my truck leaked some anti freeze in my gravel driveway. I dug out a few inches, and properly dispose of it. I thought I got it all, but today it was raining, and I saw a little bit in the puddle I dug out. I have a well maybe 100 feet away. Its elevated lower then the anti freeze spot, but the land stops up a little bit, then stops down to the well, so I don't think it could run off down to the well. Could it travel 100 feet underground to the well water?  I checked my well several months ago, and a little bit  of the water had a rainbow sheen to it, but I think that was bevsue there was a leaf that fell in, and the oil from the leaf made it the water look shinny. Idk. Should I be worried about the anti freeze reaching the well?

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  my computer made one single long beep, what does that mean?

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  The type of beep your computer makes when starting up is meant to explain your computer's status. One long, continuous beep generally means that there is a hardware problem – often memory related – that can prevent your computer from starting up at all.

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  Would I be a bad person if I didn't pay to have my moms septic tank emptied?

   Pretty sure it needs to be emptied. My mom thinks it doesn't. She said I could pay to have it done though. If it's Leaking, im pretty sure it could contaminate the ground water. And maybe effect the neighbors too. Would I be a bad person if I didn't have it emptied?

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  Big Lots has a couch I like but I question the quality.  It is $399. and I wonder if I should go elsewhere and pay more?

  There are no children or pets and it would only have light use.  Has anyone on here had upholstered furniture from Big Lots?

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  Where can I buy a toilet that's environment friendly and recycles the water back ?

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  You do not want to reuse toilet water that has had excrement in it. It’s potentially dangerous and could lead to disease.

  What I have seen, ( I think they are mainly in Japan), is a hand wash basin on top of the cistern. The water you wash your hands with, then goes into the cistern instead of down the drain. That water can be used to flush the toilet. 

  It also saves space in a small bathroom.

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  Is it okay to bury banana peel underground? Or can this cause a problem?

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  How many neighbors should I tell that we have coliform in our well?

  We recently found out we have coliform in our well. I told our emediate neighbors, but thats it. Im pretty sure our septic tank needs to be pumped, and im afraid thats why there is coliform in our well. We were told that it probably happened naturally, but im afraid its the septic tank. 

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  Will an indoor/outdoor extension cord work as a pipe wrap to thaw ice in pipes?

  Electricity creates heat. Would there be enough heat created by using a indoor/outdoor extension cord wrapped around pipes to begin to thaw ice out inside my pipes? 

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  3 way lamp says If you install any single watt bulb in a 3-way lamp there is a possibility of bulb malfunction leading to danger of fire.?

  How would using a single watt bulb in a 3 way be a risk of fire?

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  light won't turn off with wall switch ?

  I try turning off the light with the switch it's not working. How can I fix it

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  How do you repair a dry-only vacuum cleaner if you accidentally sucked up lots of water?

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  How to wire a smart thermostat? Dual Transformer system? R , Rc, W , Y , G. No C wire?

  Is this system considered a Dual Transformer system? According to Nest since there is a R and RC cable it must be a dual transformer. But they were unsure and I don't know what that means! I don't have a C wire. Trying to figure out which smart thermostat is best suited for such a setup and hook it up without tearing up much or pulling new wires!

  Hope the picture makes sense. I currently have a Honeywell Thermostat with the following wires hooked up.

  R, RC, G, Y , W. No jumpers. I have a FirstCO Air Hnadler, Burnham Heat, and AC unit outside the house. Current Thermostat: Honeywell TH6220D1002 FirstCo Air Handler: 30MBX-3HW 120V-1PH-60HZ

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   Would it be better to replace current furnace with another electric instead of switching to gas since they want to phase gas out by 2035?

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  Why does my refrigerator still have a red glow on the change the filter sign when we changed it last week?

  We bought a new filter for our fridge amd replaces our old filter that was underneath the fridge with new one, but the red flash is still there. 

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