Recent content by 3pedal

I bought a place with the building already there. It has 12' on center posts and double ply trusses. Still have headers for the garage doors, as they are 18' wide. The advantage to the wider spacing is more flexible positioning of my lift. With ~12 ' walls, I set up my 4 post to sometimes...

Another option, go to the truss manufacturer, and tell them what you want to do. They might be willing to run the load design and provide a "truss repair" or modification that you can do to the truss to make it designed for this. They do that from time to time. It is normally either for...

My first suggestion, consider 16 for walls. Two reasons. First if you ever want to put an rv in, you can. Ideally you put in a 14 foot tall door, but that is easier to add later than making the building taller. The 16 foot walls also make things like mezzanine easier and more comfortable...

I would have the truss manufacturer come take a look. Occasionally framers will put a truss in backward or something else can happen damaging the truss. They should be able to verify if there is an issue. If there is, they can work with their engineering team to repair the truss in place many...

I have been using a KwikLift for about 7 years or so. It is basically a supersized set of ramps. It gets the car up maybe 2 feet or so. After you drive on, you use a floor jack to lift the low side up and lock it in place. I am going to replace it with a 4 post shortly, as I do have the...

I just built one too, though mine isn't that accurate.

Make sure you are using structural screws. They make some for cabinets, and you can get them at the box stores. The majority of wood screws we all have are not considered structural. It has to do with the materials the screw is made out of. I believe most are too brittle, but I am not a...

Re: How to select a car for garage cat duty? I got a female kitten a few years ago. I know nothing about cats, but so far, she has worked out alright. She has never been in the house, but I do let her explore outside from time to time. Where I live, if she had free run of the outside, she...

I have been thinking about something similar. I am not putting under stairs, but want to keep the stuff cleaner but still ventilated. I am considering pegboard sides or the top with tight window screen covering the inside of the panels to keep **** and bugs out.

So far I've had a similar experience to you. The Cleary people we not very helpful. Morton was professional, but most expensive. The Steel Structures guys are down the road from me, so we went to their place. I think I met the guy you are talking about, but there were others there to fill in...

My last garage had a HotDog heater and was more segmented than yours. One heater worked well. You said you won't heat all the time. I thought the same when I installed mine but ended up always running it. Would keep it in the low 50s when so I could go out anytime I wanted to work. I could...

Looks nice. I like to put some things on peg board, and some in tool boxes. It depends on the use and location for me. You setup is an order of magnitude better than the second hand pegboard I am using. Just started putting it up in my dirty side. Hopefully I can get things as ordered as...

I know you can get a battery tender that can handle 4 batteries at a time, my buddy has one. I have one of their 2 battery units, seems to work well.

Looks like the speaker switch may be the way to go at this point. I was hoping for something similar to the switch that also amplified for the extra pairs of speakers, but this looks like a pretty affordable way to get things going.