I just had a huge silver maple removed in my backyard, got about a 4'-4.5' diameter stump left that has to go. Already spent quite a bit on having the tree removed. What are my best options for removing it myself? Dont really want to rent a stump grinder, have a chainsaw so I could try and cut it into smaller pieces. Pretty green too so I dont think burning it out will work for a bit. Just looking for advice to do this solo/without heavy equipment

Hi all! I've been asked to install a steel memorial plaque into a sandstone block. Could someone please give me the best advice how to secure this without damaging the sandstone. I'm in the UK for product advice 👍 I have already googled it but am still unsure

I was given this beautiful Turkish marble table by my grandma who moved into an assisted care facility earlier this year. I was loading it into my car on my own and it broke in half. It is a pretty jagged break and there is a large piece that chipped off, fell on the ground and broke into a million pieces.

I am hoping to repair this table and still use it. I called a local (Los Angeles) stone restoration company and was quoted $800-$1200 ballpark to properly fix it.

I cannot pay that much so I'm looking for another solution on what to do here.

What would you do with this piece now that it is in this state?

It matches another table I already have perfectly and goes with my living room so well, I'd hate to have to toss it out.

Thanks!!!

can teflon lubricant be sprayed on walls to make them non stick? for example if you had a pest problem and said pests were unable to stick to teflon? is this a solution? would it compromise the paint job? this is more for indoor use so reapplying wont be an issue but outdoor as well would it work? thanks!

ive done searches on reddit and google and havent found anything. i saw a few mentions of teflon coated wallpaper but cant find any in amazon or best buy nor can i find it locally (not usofa or canada or europe)

Laying laminate in my sitting room and hallway. I've reached the door to the hall and having trouble getting past the doorway.

https://i.imgur.com/jelJhBa.jpeg

Using two scrap pieces to show. B will be the last piece in the sitting room and because of the door frame I can't tilt it so it locks into place with A. From what I've read and watched the thing to do it shave off the lip on A so B can instead slide in and glue it. That's fine but I now have the exact same issue with C. I don't want to go shaving the lip off B also, it feels like the wrong thing to do as it's the only thing connecting the sitting room to the hall plus it being done just behind also.

Videos I've watched about this seem to use thin and flimsy laminate and they just whack and bend the pieces until they go together but there's very little give in the stuff I have so that's not possible. Any tricks to get around this?

Looking at buying a second hand induction cooker to replace my hotplate cooker i currently have. What brands should i avoid TIA

We have some high points underneath our laminate tile causing the whole assembly to bow and wobble when walking on it - there's a bunch of air between the tiles and the floor beneath it outside the high points.

How we got here - our builder wanted to save money on self-leveling compound, so instead of covering the whole floor he spot-treated it at multiple levels of the process. That, combined with a mediocre floor-heat install, left us with a few high points that are causing the whole floor to wobble at certain spots. The issue isn't that the floor itself is uneven, it's what was done to try to level it that ended up causing issues.

We are thinking of just pulling up the laminate tiles and doing a layer of self-leveling compound on the entire floor to bring it all to the level of the high points. The counter is already about 1/2 in. higher than standard so that won't be an issue. The under-floor heat is already installed, hence why we can't just grind. I'm just worried we'll have another issue with the leveler, though this will be the first time we're using it as intended over the whole floor.

Any other ideas?

The full assembly:

Top: Cork-backed laminate tiles

Self-leveling spot-treatment poured around a few high points

Thinset

Floor heat

Thinset

Self-leveling spot-treatment poured into low points

Cement board

Bottom: wood subfloor