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AMERICAN CANYON — Host, Sarah Rutan: If you think your home has low water pressure, you may be confusing this for a simpler issue. Today we’re in American Canyon with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Lamine Elabed of LW Construction & Handyman Services to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Lamine Elabed: This tip is about low pressure coming out of a particular faucet in your home, most likely the bathroom or a kitchen faucet. Over time — there is an aerator, which is a thing that hooks into the end of the faucet — and it’s an aerator, which means it has a filter supposed to reduce the water output to 45%. It’s because when you’re brushing your teeth, for example, and the faucet is going full speed, it’s a lot of waste of water. This actually reduces the water by 45 or 50%. It’s like a filter, and this filter over time sometimes gets clogged with a lot of sediment from the utility company or from your hot water heater tank, and it gets clogged. And this actually reduces the flow of water even further and it’ll be like a trickle.

So, what you do, you remove this thing, unscrew it, and you run the water — if the water’s pressure is perfect, this means that you have to replace the filter in here. And you buy this stuff from any hardware store, you can buy five or six of them or one at a time, and you replace that and you’re back to normal.

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AMERICAN CANYON — Host, Sarah Rutan: Whether your garbage disposal is jammed or just smells bad, you’ll be glad to know there’s a simple solution. Today we’re in American Canyon with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Lamine Elabed of LW Construction & Handyman Services to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Lamine Elabed: I’m here today to give you a few tips regarding garbage disposal. It does get stuck sometimes, it doesn’t turn when you flip the switch. A lot of times all you need to do is reset the switch right here — you just push it once, remove it, and turn the power on again and it should be okay.

If that doesn’t happen, it’s still clogged, then you have this mechanical hex key right here, there’s an opening here at the bottom. You open — you turn the power off, of course, before you do that — and then you crank it left or right, and that should clear the food stuff that’s actually stuck in there.

A lot of times when you go on vacation, and you haven’t used it for a week, two weeks, whatever, and you come back and it stinks a little bit — to clean it a little bit, you fill up the sink with hot water and a little bit of vinegar, and then — you have this turned off of course — and then when you remove the plug to the sink, to the drain in the sink, and then you turn this one on, it will swirl all inside and clean the top as well as the bottom. That should do it. That’s it for the garbage disposal tip.

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AMERICAN CANYON — Host, Sarah Rutan: If you’ve lost power to your bathroom or kitchen, there’s likely a simple solution. Today we’re in American Canyon with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Lamine Elabed of LW Construction & Handyman Services to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Lamine Elabed: I wanted to show you today how to reset a GFI plug. These plugs are around your kitchen, either side of the sink, and your bathroom by the vanity, by the sink, always close to the water. Whether it’s outside, or the plug’s outside, it will have this GFI plug, whether it’s next to the jacuzzi — anyway, anywhere there is a wet area, you have this device. It’s a plug, and it has a switch. It can trigger — any hint of moisture, any hint of circuit touching a human, it will actually reset — basically trigger —  it trips, and shuts off the power, and this will actually save you from shocks, from electrical shocks.

So, when that happens there’s no power in here, and anything else chained to it will have no power, so you have to come in and push the button to reset it and the power is back on again if there is no problem. If there’s another problem, this thing will work again and you have to replace it, but 99% of the time it’s what it is. You need to reset the switch. There’s two switches, one to test and one to reset, and you’re done.

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AMERICAN CANYON — Host, Sarah Rutan: Resetting a tripped circuit breaker can be surprisingly tricky. Today we’re in American Canyon with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Lamine Elabed of LW Construction & Handyman Services to learn the proper technique.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Lamine Elabed: Today I wanted to show you how to reset a simple circuit breaker when it’s tripped. A lot of times it’s not completely off or not completely on, and a lot of times, especially the old circuit breaker, sometimes it’s in between and you won’t even see it, but the only thing you see is that you don’t have power someplace, no lights or something is not going on in your house. So, you have to go to the panel, you make sure that circuit is completely off, and wait a few seconds. And to turn it back on, you have to hit it really hard. You have to hear it and you have to give it a good jolt, and that should restore the power to your house, to the light or plug or something. That should do it, because to reset it, you cannot do it softly, you have to do it really hard from an off position and you have to wait a few seconds. If not, it’s never going to turn on, and looks like it’s broken. But a lot of times it’s not; it actually has to be hit really hard to restore the power.

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AMERICAN CANYON — Host, Sarah Rutan: Having smoke and carbon monoxide detectors in your home is crucial, but it also helps to understand how they function. Today we’re in American Canyon with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Lamine Elabed of LW Construction & Handyman Services to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Lamine Elabed: When you pull your remodel permits on city or county, one of the requirements is for them to check, they are expected to check smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors present at your home. And they always have to check that before they sign off on the permit. So, let’s talk about smoke detectors. Smoke detectors save your life, actually. Two-thirds of the deaths, you know, of fire are attributable to lack of a smoke detector or units without batteries. The new state requirement, actually, is for a 10-year life for the lithium battery. You don’t have to replace it. And you cannot access it, stamp of proof, for safety purposes.

We recommend that you use photoelectric units because they trigger the alert of the smoke and the fire before, a lot faster than the ionization units. And remember, the only, the lifespan of a smoke detector is about 8-to-10 years. If you look at the back unit, it has a manufacturer date. After that, you have to replace it. The carbon monoxide detector is a device that will actually detect gas that you cannot see and you cannot smell.

When it sounds, say it’s installed, and you have to grab it with you when it sounds and walk away with it. Take the kids, take the cat and the dog, and walk away, outside. And keep walking away till it stops beeping. The reason for that is the source could be your neighbor. It could be outside of the street, and you don’t know when it’s going to stop, since you cannot see it, you cannot smell it. That’s why it has to be installed where it can be accessed.

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