Derek Walczak is a licensed general contractor located in Ipswich, MA. Together with his wife and business partner, Lisa, Derek owns and operates Walczak Design and Build, a design-build collaborative ...

How do single-pole wall switches work, and how can they fail? Read on for all the details. Speaking of misbehaving power toggles, a few weeks back (as I’m writing this in mid-December), the kitchen ...

Is a garbage disposal really necessary? If you don’t have one, or have one you rarely use, you know it’s not that difficult to live without. Perhaps this should go without saying, but when you don’t ...

So my current in-sink-erator has stopped working. Flip the switch and it makes a quiet hum, but no turning. I stuck my hand down there (when it's off, of course) and was able to turn the plate the ...