u/Boring-Caramel8023

Gotta love home owning. The boot under my air handler isnt even attached to the main duct. I just sealed both sides with hvac tape. But the other sides are against joist and the duct is fixed 2inches below the floor board. I attempted using half inch tubing and injecting duct mastic, but it just made a mess and didnt work. Was thinking maybe hvac company can lower it somehow but prob cant since all my electrical and water lines directly beneath it. I strongly feel they have to seal it from above by removing flooring or take out the whole air handler to get it. I think my last resorts would be to spray foam the sides and hope it dont expand inside it, or put the fiber glass up around it like how it was and just hope it slows it down, or just try seal it at the joist and hope all the hot air leaking out in that little space dosent rot the wood around it somehow.

So i removed my bathroom vanity and noticed this vent and whoever put this house together in 2004 used hvac tape to bridge the gap between the floor and this duct. As you can also see the alignment of plywood dont match the duct. Anyhow. I need to patch this hole. Hvac guy who was here kinda pissed me off. I half assed it and threw a piece of metal scrap on top , smaller than the hole cause it was all i had and i taped it temporary to not have wasted ac till he arrived. He tells me , it just needs more tape. I told him numerous times how i want it done and he just ends up taping more. I am just going to redo it. Please tell me the proper way.

How i assume to do it the right way:

Clean surface really well. Apply enough tape to cover hole. I am going to go with a galvanize flat scrap of roofing thats a inch large around edges of the hole, all i have. I think i will bend the metal sheet down the side of the duct an inch since theirs no meat on the edge. What do you think? I am going to use half inch sheet metal screws to secure it perimeter of sheet metal. Then ill paint it with mastic duct sealant. Sealant isnt going to be touching the tape in anyway just in case the tape peels and mastic isnt compromised.Anything else i need to add? Or should i skip the screws and just use a whole roll of hvac tape?

The plywood on top is only 2 to 3 inches above it so once i repair this hole , in the plywood , i wont be able to fix it again.

Old photo but we have a drop in step into the pool. How should i create a gate that dosent sag and will be removeable later on without drilling too many holes in the deck. Have a baby on the way and want it to safe.

Should i trim to a single main branch now or wait till dormancy? AI says no. One of them have a single fig on it.

I want to do the end of axe like this without glue. I dont know anything about leatherwork. Wasted money on lambskin leather 2 sets of 25in. I had a hard time finding a good source for thin leather in long strands (5to 6 ft). Also didnt want to glue it on either, mainly for decoration, whats thise pins he used to hold that leather on?

I want to braid the bottom handle like this

https://youtu.be/QQ2s1RQLkPk?si=Jw1TXsMLGS7feOEC

I assume in the video he probably use 5 to 6ft but not sure where to purchase it. Dont need a whole hide. What is the needle called he used to braid with?

This is a Belmac apple tree. Suppose to be highly resistant to fireblight. Is this fireblight? Lost 70% of my apple buds. AI says to cut 12 inch below effected area. If i did that nothing would be left. Each year i always have some issue with these apple trees , had them for 4 years and barely getting any apples. Be lucky to get 5 or 6 apples from them.

So I had these green giants for like 5 years now. I spaced them close enough so thatll prob grow 10 to 15ft tall and hopefully stop. Had a bagwarm incident or something last year and lost all the folliage on some parts of the tree and lost a few branches. I circled the spots that bother me. Bottom left of one tree basically gone and i wonder if new branches or folliage ever gonna grow there or should i just restart with another tree. Another tree of mine is the same on both bottoms but not as bad. And the 3rd tree i had a lot of yellow leaves that crumbled off in the middle of it and its just empty branches there. Will that get folliage back.? I give it recommended fertilizer, compost and pine mulch, growth feels so slow. Im tempted to get rid of em all and just put fruit trees or something