r/DIY

This tail pipe broke off my old kitchen sink (> 25 years old I would say).

Normally, I would be able to fix this easily. However, in this sink, the strainer protrusion seems to be a part of the sink... the threaded metal part at the top of the tail pipe seems to have sheared off. I am unable to find a way to connect a new tail pipe to this.

The nut type thing attached near the strainer rotates, but does not want to come out... Trying to remove it with a plier makes the entire sink bottom shake, not sure if there is a trick to remove it, if it does need removed anyways.

What would be the best way to fix this?

So I was literally 44 years old before I found this out recently.

There’s the white vinegar you get at the grocery store for cooking and minor cleaning and doing laundry, and then there’s the 30% DO NOT GET THIS SHIT ON YOUR SKIN vinegar at the hardware store for cleaning things like mold off grout.

All my life I’d been told ‘just use vinegar to clean mold and mildew’ and it generally didn’t do jack squat. I usually bought cleaning supplies from regular retail spots rather than big box home improvement places, and regular retail chains def did not carry the strong stuff.

I’ve got a gutter that drains over cement that always gets skungy, and even bleach was a short term fix at best. 30% strips it down and keeps it gone, and I’ve stripped rust off a couple dozen tools with the same little jar I soak things in - caution it will also strip off shiny metallic coatings.

Can’t believe none of the “just use vinegar” I’d ever read advice didn’t specify.

Is this news to anyone else or am I Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber realizing we landed on the moon?

I am replacing a carpeted bedroom with laminate floor. I've reached a doorway that opens into a bathroom and I don't know how to proceed. The threshold has a big square engineered stone. When the bedroom was carpeted the top of the carpet was about even with the top of the stone, but with the laminate floor in place it will be just under 1" lower. I've been looking at transition pieces in the home improvement stores and online vendors, and I've yet to see anything advertised to make up that much height difference - the biggest ones I've seen top out at 20mm/0.8". To complicate things further, the stone spans most of the depth of the door frame, so anything too long is going to have its sides exposed rather than being wholly contained within the depth of the door frame.

I've considered removing the engineered stone entirely, but the instructions I've read online about that are daunting and I'm afraid there's a good chance of damaging the tile underneath, and then my one room DIY project is turning into a two room one.

Does anyone have any recommended products or techniques that would let me transition from the stone to the laminate flooring in a reasonably aesthetic way so I can keep this project moving? Thanks in advance!