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Questions tagged [wet]

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Damp concrete floor in bedroom

Had water overflow into bedroom and closet. New laminate floor removed. Concrete floor has glue strips from another flooring that is sticky in some places. Will thoroughly clean with as little water as possible Q. When all cleaning is done and floor…
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Do GFCI protected devices need to be labeled as such, if they are protected from another location?

I'm doing a fairly substantial rewire of about half my house. In many places, like kitchen, bath, and outside/garage, I've replaced circuit breakers in my box with GFCI or dual function breakers. Now I have outlets in damp/wet locations that are…
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Approved weatherproof way of connecting SER into panel

I have a knockout in an outdoor electrical panel that is above the uninsulated portion of the panel. I need to run 4/0 SER wire into the panel. According to NEC 312.2, I need a wet listed fitting when working above the uninsulated portion of the…
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Is any amount of moisture normal on exterior sheathing?

I'm renovating a living room in my 1940 two-story home in Central, NY which involved adding insulation where there was previously none. Before the drywall goes up I decided to run some electrical wiring for future recessed lights. After pulling back…
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Wet sanding using 1200 grit on my brown table has created a white/dust-like cover

I worked on 2 projects for painting a wood table and a metal table, where wet sanding had worked perfectly on the metal table while it ruin the wood table, as follow:- I have a wood table which i painted using oil-based semi-gloss Jotun brown paint…
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Do I need to replace water damage or just let it dry out?

I had a water leak under my kitchen sink. It happened pretty slowly over the course of perhaps 8 weeks. The bottom of the cupboard was saturated and about 6 " up the sides of the same cupboard unit. Also, I have old wood floors and some of the…
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Rain Got To Untreated Wood Furniture Project - What to Do?

I've been building a bedframe from unfinished wood on my deck (due to lack of indoor workspace), and tarping it off at night to protect it. Apparently I did a poor job last night though, as the wind blew a corner of the tarp off, said corner taking…
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Electrical junction box under the sink gets wet

We just purchased a house and under the kitchen sink there is a metal junction box for the electricity to the disposal switch. It is on the bottom of the cabinet and it is covered in electrical tape. It is possible that it can get wet when the sink…
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Vinyl Flooring: Wet glue underneath and pink and black stains on top

I had vinyl flooring professionally laid 2 years ago. Now it is covered in black stains and a faint pink discolouration. We have the same flooring in two different rooms - in the kitchen (which is stained) and in the downstairs bathroom (not…
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Water on block foundation wall

I have water on the top 4 feet of my basement foundation wall. This goes around almost the entire perimeter of the basement. The bottom 4 feet of blocks are dry. Any ideas the cause? Can someone suggest a remediation method. FYI the entire wall…
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too much moisture in concrete slab

We had vinyl floor installed a year ago that is now coming up. The installer said he will replace with another floor as soon as we find out where the moisture is coming from. We had a plumber do tests and he found no leaks and the foundation…
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Drywall Next to Shower getting wet

I recently purchased a house that had some drywall damage next to the shower/tub. We could see there was a crack in the calking, figured we'd get that fixed and then fix the drywall, no issue. Well we did both, calking inside and outside of the…
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What could be causing this moisture issue at the bottom of the middle wall?

We're baffled by this. Can someone help us solve this mystery? In our mobile home, we recently (as in within the past few days) discovered some moisture behind the baseboard in the middle of an interior wall. The moisture is only in the middle…
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Can I use this old sink vent for new basement bathroom?

I am building a 3 piece bathroom + laundry in this old basement laundry room. The cast iron sink pictured drains to the floor and that vertical 1 1/4" copper pipe is a wet vent, I believe, as it is tied into that main 4" stack going across the…
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Will the vent arrangement for my bathtub pass inspection?

4 fixture bathroom - Florida inspector says all fixtures need to be wet vented in bathroom. I want to ask if the bathtub to the right with its own vent will work. I believe the inspector is wanting the bathtub on right to also be on a wet vent. If I…
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