collin park

Dear Dad, Last night, Carol called to me from the bathroom: “Our heat pump water heater isn’t heating!” Yep, we had one of those insta...

Like the person in this doityourself.com post , I had a problem where the oven stopped heating after being put through a cleaning cycle. ...

We've had this cooktop since we re-did the kitchen in 2008. A few months back it developed a crack. Recently, the front right burner...

So I noticed that the flatware wasn't getting clean in the dishwasher, and the cups weren't looking so nice either. Things were ...

Streaming video to our computers, or even audio, was problematic at our house. It had been some months (don't remember how many mont...

The really interesting-looking email appeared in my inbox today. It urges me to click on (some ".nl" link) to find out why na...

Short version: Accident leads to astonishing discovery: Aussie shampoo cleaned up stains on our old bathtub that scrubbing never did. Detail...

The photo at left was taken from my attic. That's the inside of a 9"-diameter vent; I can't tell what sort of wasp or hor...

Buy a water heater installation kit, you know, the package with two water hoses (one cold, one hot) and a gas supply hose, and pipe-thr...

This is kinda elementary, but I did it wrong last time; this way is better. First, I'll show you a picture of the setup: each end h...

Three weeks back , our dishwasher wasn't draining. It looked about like the picture you see at right. I was glad at that time that ...

After googling, and particularly after reading this post I decided to take a look at the pump. Here's what I did: Turned off power...

We have one of these -- installed in 2008. It's a pretty nice appliance, easy to use. It has a vent fan that blows steam (etc) fro...

Early Thursday morning, the lovely Carol and I drove to the Sequoia "Y" -- taking two cars (boo!) because we had different pla...

When we re-did the kitchen in 2008, the lovely Carol chose a fancy faucet with three levers (for hot water, cold tap water, and filtere...

One of the kids' read-aloud books was called something like "Daddy's Busy Day" -- I'm sure that's wrong -- but ...

We bought a Whirlpool cooktop for last year's kitchen remodel. Our cooktop, the GJC3634RP03, has a white surface, which means a lot...