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I can truly say I hate my pot lights as they are. They look great but they burn out all the time and they take a medium base bulb which are really hard to find. Last night my husband and I bought a Philips Ambient LED R20 Indoor Flood bulb as an experiment. It works great and I think it could really make us fall in love with our pot lights again. However, the LED bulbs are not compatible with the current cap on the lights. The bulb is too chubby for the inner ring, but not big enough to sit in the outer shell without the inner ring. Is it possible to buy just a new cap without buying the can hardware? How else could we adapt our current hardware for these new bulbs?

I have a bathroom sink that has a plug that works with plunger behind the facet. My 4 year old decided to stuff toilet paper down the sink and now it's plugged up. So far as I can tell there is no easy way to get the plug out. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I should go about clearing the pipe? Plumbing is not my strong point when it comes to home maintance.

I feel so silly for asking this but it's a new house and I've never had to do this before. We have halogen pot lights all down our hallway and several of the bulbs have gone. There is an outer ring that sits flat to the ceiling and doesn't seem inclined to budge. Then there is an inner ring that pivots and finally the bulb which is flush to the inter ring.

If so will it dim the light? If not, is there another solution for energy efficient light control?

My new kitchen has birch cabinets, a slate floors and counter top and green glass back splash. Currently the walls are white but I'd like to warm them up a little. Any suggestions for colours I could look at?

My new family room has two walls with exposed brick. I'd like to be able to hang some art on those walls but I don't want to damage the brick.

I have a room in my basement with linoleum over concrete floor. The linoleum is really badly damaged and I'd like to remove it. What is required to do this? Are there specific tools I'll need? Are there solvents needed?