Someone on a blog recommended using sheet metal screws rather than wood screws because they are not tapered. Sheet metal screws are - as the name suggests - are meant for SHEET METAL, not to go through drywall, wood and into wood. The fact that they don't taper has nothing to do with their holding capacity, and everything to do with the fact they are designed to go through thin metal, not into wood. Yes, drill pilot holes, centered on the studs. Use standard wood screws, or deck screws, size 8 or 10, logn enough to go through the rail, through your drywall and about 2 inches into the studs ... 3 or 3.5 inch should be about long enough.

Thanks, chas045. My husband mentioned both those things this evening. He thinks if he makes the hole slightly larger, the screw head would seat farther into it just enough to allow the header to slide in. If it weren't for the screw heads, the header with the brackets fit inside the window frame with barely ⅛" clearance on the sides, which unfortunately, with the screws on both sides of the header need just a smidgen over that (like 1/32 to maybe 1/16). I've not tried adding photos to Garden web in years, much less since it became Houzz. I'll try later. Thanks for the replies! Tracey

So I am going to disagree a bit. My main piece of advice - Don't assume that what you believe is true just because you believe it. Something isn't bad just because you think it is bad, and something isn't right just because you believe it is right. You are building a home, it is going to be a great home or a terrible home because of the knowledge and actions of professionals, and not because of what you believe. Many many years ago I had a plumbing license, I am not an expert in plumbing by any means, but from the time I was 13 years old, I spent summers and weekends working for my dad's plumbing company. There is not nearly enough information to answer your question in any meaningful way. Waste plumbing running horizontally sloped isn't a problem at all. I assure you that there are many spots that plumbing runs through a horizontal slope for stretches much much longer than 7 or 8 feet. Additionally, PVC running 8' through a wall is not necessarily going to harm anything in the wall at all. Nothing. The typical master bath today will have wall runs longer than 8', even through 2x4 walls. If you want to post a floorplan and describe where the pipes are and their diameter, I can give you more advice. Generally, putting a toilet or tub/shower outlet in the wrong place is a problem, while putting sinks in the wrong place is usually not a problem, putting the stack in the wrong place might be a problem and it might not be a problem at all. The plumber probably COULD have dug this up, fixed it in the ground, patched the slab and gotten on with it What you are describing may do more harm than good. Every plumber, who has been doing this for more than a few months, will have quickie sawed through a slab. Sawing through an uncured concrete slab isn't even a lot of work, so there is little reason to believe that either party were avoiding this if it was the best solution. Lots of plumbers don't like a lot couplings and joints in a concrete slab in 1.5" or 2" pipe. A clog in the slab is costly. As for the mistake. Mistakes get made in builds, it just happens. A good builder will protect the homeowner from the mistakes. However, he is not going to call you every time a mistake that is easily correctable gets made. In the scope of things this just isn't necessarily a very big mistake. With some more information I could give you an opinion. If you are that concerned pay a plumber to come look at the house and give his opinion or post actual pictures of the mistake and the floorplan.

I have an Electrolux counter depth refrigerator. I wasn't sure if I was going to like counter depth. I absolutely now like it so much better! I really don't feel like I've lost any space everything that gets shoved to the back is now organized and nice and neat inside my refrigerator. Especially if you have another refrigerator. My refrigerator is very pretty but I am not happy with the ice maker lever. For an expensive refrigerator the lever is made out of silver material that is not stainless steel and it gets all scratched up! I'm a little OCD with scratching and marks ad I don't like the way the scratches look on the outside of the refrigerato!. Alll of my appliances are Electrolux