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Questions tagged [locating]

Questions about how to find some existing component in your house. For questions about where something can or should be put, see the 'placement' tag.

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How do I find the water main entry point to my house?

My house has no apparent main water line shut off valve. Usually one would find a shut off valve right near where the water main entered the house structure. At my current house I have never been able to determine where the water main entry point is…
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How do I locate studs in my wall?

First, I'm not the handiest of men, but can usually figure this sort of thing out. I just moved into an apartment in Manhattan and we're wanting to mount shelves, desks, and televisions to the wall to make use of our vertical space. Classic of…
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Locating electrical conduit under walkway

I am installing a home EVSE charging station. From the circuit breaker box, there are unused conduits that lead to a lamp fixture location near the end of the driveway. I have located the panel end of this conduit, and would like to tap off the…
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How do I locate a dryer exhaust vent?

I live in an older duplex. I just recently attempted to clean out the dryer vent/duct for the downstairs unit and failed because I could not find where my dryer vent is outside. Is it possible that my dryer vent and the upstairs dryer vents are…
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How do I find the studs on my ceiling through 4.5" of polyiso?

I am starting to install polyiso on the interior of my slanted cathedral roof assembly and am having trouble finding the studs through the 4.5" of polyiso that I have. Things working against me: not all studs are perfectly 16" OC. The ceiling deck…
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How do I find the master unit for an intercom?

I have a 4-wire (I think) intercom/doorbell system in the my house with 3 indoor stations (Pacific Electronic 3404) and one outdoor station. My transformer is in the (finished) basement on the west wall of the house; the intercom stations are…
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How to locate In-wall speaker cables (behind dry wall)

I moved into my new house about a year ago and discovered a wall plate that has 4 pairs of speaker wires stuffed in there. According to the labels on the ends of the wires, there are speakers for our patio, family room, living room, and kitchen. The…
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Trouble locating the lateral sewer line to house

I am having trouble locating the lateral sewer line to my house. So far I have tried all of the following: Have looked for 'S' marking on the sidewalk concrete - not legible/wiped out, no cleanouts near the front of the property.. Had had two…
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Would a shed at the side of my house expose it to a risk of damp?

We're looking to maximise some garden/patio space by relocating our bike storage to a new shed at the side of our property. (See attached picture- apologies for the amateur editing!) The shed will sit close to the side wall of our house, and will…
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Device to help find my buried well

So, I am in need of something that will help me find my buried well cap. Basically I want to attach something small to the end of a steel line and then track with the phone through the ground. I've seen a number of things which seem close but my…
Highland Dragon
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find other end of ethernet cable

My house is wired for Cat5e. In each room there is a blank socket with a cat5e cable behind it. I presume they all terminate in a common location. I've looked in all the usual and unusual locations where they might terminate but I can't find…
user195166
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Finding ground lines for geothermal heating (no tracer lines)

Moved into a house with a pre-existing geothermal heating. Short version: previous holding company went out of business and has no documents on the house. The builder also went out of business a decade ago. The geothermal lines are in the…
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Locate plug on a mystery breaker - unable to find by conventional means

I've got a nearly full panel in my detatched garage and I've verified all lebeled breakers. However, there's a breaker labeled 'projector plug' that seems to power nothing. There is attatched romex. After testing every plug I could find with that…
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Locating a "future use" run from a switch box

When we had an outbuilding built, the electrician put in a box with a run from the breaker panel and another empty (i.e. completely disconnected) run from the box up the wall because we didn't know if we were going to want a single light over a…
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What can I do if 811 shows up late?

I called 811 to ask them to mark my utility lines on a Monday and told them I'd be doing work that Friday. They didn't show up until the Monday after I planned to work. What should I do? What recourse do I have?
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