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They sell all kinds of stuff at Home Depot, Lowes, and Menards that technically require a permit to install, or is simply not legal to install. For example, flexible water heater connectors are not...

Most grid tie solar inverters need a source of power to sync to. Even if you had a transfer switch to isolate your solar the panels won't produce any power. This is starting to change. The latest...

The rotors are so thin from new on my car that there is no resurfacing them. I doubt they are over 1/2" thick. They don't have the vents between the two sides like a lot of rotors. They are just a...

The local Menards had hundreds of pairs of eclipse glasses left early Monday afternoon. I checked the Menards website yesterday curious to see how many eclipse glasses were still in inventory and...

I have 96,000 miles on my car. I had to replace the rear pads for the first time around 86,000 miles because one of the rear calipers locked up. It turned out the pads had been wearing very uneven...

How properties are valued for property tax purposes varies from place to place. I know in Minnesota state law determines how properties are valued for property tax purposes. In Minnesota, the...

Tax forfeitures here in Minnesota generally take several years of missed payments before you lose the property. You certainly aren't out on the street for missing one payment.

I would think the covering is there to encapsulate the fiberglass. You don't often see loose fiberglass insulation unless it was something like a DIY job of insulating a water heater with unfaced...

It seems to be pretty common where I live that abandoned/unused fuel tanks have to be removed. The MN State Fair had a former DOT truck station onsite and the tanks were removed there. The State...

There are a BP and Speedway station across the street from each other that are often the same price, or less, then the Costco about eight miles away.

The local Costco stations don't have diesel,...

For a lot of folks a $12,000 transmission repair would be a financial disaster it could take years to recover from. They don't have the savings to pay cash for the repair and would likely have to...

The whole tanker thing is not that big a deal for me. I have a Costco membership, but I don't buy gas there all that often. The closest Costco is often more expensive than a pair of stations...

Where I live they split the city up into five sections and the assessor does visits to one section each year. I believe that includes interior inspections too, but you can decline the interior...

A former manager at my employer bought 4k laptops with 13" screens for everyone. The purchase was about six years ago and company employees skewed quite a bit older at the time. (A lot have retired...

I've appealed a few times, but my appeals were less than ten thousand dollars, not 50%. I won every time.

I don't think Minnesota technically allows any electrical work without a permit with one exception. My understanding is a contractor can remove and reinstall light fixtures and receptacles if they...

Furniture companies provide pictures of their products for items that cost less than 1% of that $90,000 table.

That $200 was probably parts and labor.

I am guessing your warranty was aftermarket, not from the dealer? Some independent repair shops refuse to deal with extended warranty companies because of the extra time they take to deal with. ...

It appears they will mandate blade brakes on table saws. I doubt they are requiring use of any specific technology such as Saw Stop. Government rarely specifies a specific vendor or technology. ...

Extended warranties are sort of like casinos. Overall, the house always wins. If every customer came out ahead on extended warranties the companies would go bankrupt. (Some extended companies have...

Some items are shown as stock on the website. The rest are custom order with a lead time of 48 weeks for wood furniture.

I'm not buying furniture without at least seeing a photo of it. In person would be better. Of course, if I was really buying a $90,000 table I would probably be flying out to the showroom to see...

Man, the Donald Judd furniture website leaves something to be desired. No actual pictures of the product. There are just basic line drawings of everything.

I had a forced air HVAC system installed in my house after I bought it. The round duct is all screwed at the joints and a brush on sealant was used to seal the joints. (The house had electric...