Why are electric baseboard heaters so noisy only in the dead of winter? [more inside]
posted by Eicats on Oct 6, 2009 - 4 answers

Can I use Yahoo Pipes to create a feed that contains a bunch of other feeds added by other people? [more inside]
posted by The Devil Tesla on Jul 9, 2009 - 9 answers

When our pool equipment runs, it triggers the sound of a leaky pipe in a wall adjacent to our hot water heater. By triggering the valve on the hot water heater when the water to the house is off, I can stop the noise. How can I fix this? [more inside]
posted by pokeedog on Feb 15, 2009 - 5 answers

Do I need to wrap my outdoor spigots to prevent freezing? [more inside]
posted by roaring beast on Dec 23, 2008 - 15 answers

Preventing my house's pipes from freezing while a few timezones away? [more inside]
posted by lisa g on Dec 12, 2008 - 14 answers

Can anyone fill me in on Coldstream Civic Week? [more inside]
posted by DickStock on Aug 30, 2008 - 1 answer

Has anyone used Yahoo's Pipes? [more inside]
posted by Foam Pants on Jul 28, 2008 - 9 answers

How can I use Yahoo Pipes to omit my username from my RSS feed? [more inside]
posted by deern the headlice on Jun 14, 2008 - 3 answers

Does anyone have any experience or advice on building a clothing/display rack out of pipes? [more inside]
posted by wolfsleepy on Jan 18, 2008 - 10 answers

I'd like to create a feed of all references to my web site (by searching for the domain name) on popular link farms such as reddit. [more inside]
posted by qvtqht on Jan 17, 2008 - 2 answers

Can anyone help me create an RSS feed, using Yahoo Pipes, from a list on an HTML page? [more inside]
posted by krisjohn on Jan 17, 2008 - 6 answers

Does anyone have any recommendations on where to buy herbal smoking pipes online? Advice on finding a piece for the adult professional in me? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jan 1, 2008 - 15 answers

Why does my upstairs shower run out of hot water long before the one downstairs? I only have one water heater... [more inside]
posted by tomwheeler on Dec 29, 2007 - 17 answers

Plugged Pipes - Is there a way to clean out the water pipes in my home without spending oodles of $s to replace them? [more inside]
posted by Juicylicious on Oct 5, 2007 - 13 answers

Looking for good Celtic music and I need your help… [more inside]
posted by birdlips on Aug 8, 2007 - 22 answers

Help me bend or buy my way into owning 4 U-shaped pipes! [more inside]
posted by washburn on Jun 5, 2007 - 13 answers

When buying exhaust flex pipes like these, to fit over an H-pipe with a diameter of 2.5", would you buy the flex pipes with the 2.5" outlet diameter or do you need something bigger? [more inside]
posted by Venadium on Jun 2, 2007 - 1 answer

Can I get an RSS feed of the User Friendly comic that includes only cartoons, and has them inline in the feed? [more inside]
posted by bkudria on Apr 8, 2007 - 2 answers

When Yahoo Pipes first came out, there was some muttering about how this would be handy for creating a feed for an individual author on a multi-author blog w/o feeds by author? But I can't seem to find anyone who's done it, or successfully do so myself. Any Pipes gurus on AskMe? [more inside]
posted by Chrysostom on Mar 9, 2007 - 8 answers

How do I ground copper water pipes to old iron water pipes? [more inside]
posted by kuujjuarapik on Sep 28, 2006 - 5 answers

So here's my dilemma. The pipe that brings water to our house freezes. It’s not four feet deep. We've lived here three years. It happened the first year, not the second year, and then again a few days ago. When it happens I have to go to the neighbors and fill two five gallon buckets and bring them into the house to meet our needs. Flush our toilets, clean our dishes, water our pets and plants, fill the humidifiers in our two babies' rooms, etc. Fifty gallons a day, at least. And that doesn’t include cleaning clothes. This continues until the ground thaws. Now the question. It seems the folks who lived here before us knew of this problem. No, it wasn’t in the disclosure. What they did was weld wires to the pipe, from the well and then at the house, and then hook those up to an arc welder. The current would melt the pipes and the water would flow again. So, yes, in the spring we’ll dig a very expensive new supply pipe, but in the mean time, I’d like advice about circuits.? A condition of the sale of the house required a new septic. The contractor who put in the septic broke the pipe from the well and then he repaired it with PVC. Will the arc welder method still work or would that end in catastrophe? Did he build a fuse? There's water in the pipe and ice is conductive, but how will the PVC respond?
posted by Toekneesan on Dec 30, 2005 - 30 answers

Cleaning a wooden pipe - two part question. What's the best way to make sure a wooden pipe that's been boiled doesn't get mouldy? And, if boiling a wooden pipe is stupid, what's a better way to clean out a few years' worth of carboninzed resin from a small airway? The first question is the more pressing one.
posted by poweredbybeard on Oct 15, 2005 - 10 answers

I just moved into a new house and am noticing my long hair is falling out much more quickly than before. We've checked on water quality (it's soft and no different than our previous home - just 2 miles away). What might be the reasons for this? [more inside]
posted by jojopizza on Jul 29, 2005 - 12 answers

I'm taking up (tobacco) pipe smoking. (No lectures, please.) I was wondering if anyone else here enjoys a good smoke now and then? If so, what are your favorite blends? Pipes? What should I look for in a tobacco pouch-- leather, vinyl? [more inside]
posted by keswick on Jul 2, 2004 - 16 answers