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I hate to come across as a Nervous Nellie but I can't stress enough the importance of a hand rail for the stairs and rubberized or those grippy stair treads for your stairway. I only came to this realization myself after having slipped and fallen down the 5 stairs leading down into my garage...

Unless you make your living lifting several cars a day up into the air to make repairs I don't know why anyone would spend more than what Greg Smith charges for their Atlas lift. If you have the cash to impress your friends then by all means spend it on something very very similar, painted a...

Unless you make your living lifting several cars a day up into the air to make repairs I don't know why anyone would spend more than what Greg Smith charges for their Atlas lift. If you have the cash to impress your friends then by all means spend it on something very very similar, painted a...

sounds like your seals are blown.

Tommy Silva of This Old House uses PVC so I will use PVC.

Anyone besides me think that the author of the original post meant to say PVC and not MDF? I'd use PVC all day everyday for exterior trim.

French Cleat....they are terrific.

We had a neighbor that used the clear shelf paper from the grocery store. Worked great and looked nice too!

I've had a Greg Smith 4 post lift for some three years now. I use it mostly for storage. The one thing that I would suggest is that you have a dedicated 30 Amp outlet for the lift. The lift works great.

I think that you are looking for a LiftMaster door lift.

Catheter.

This is going to sound awful but my wife works at a high school with a rat problem due to ongoing construction and they use several battery operated zap traps. Those and the glue traps have greatly reduced the rat population. A word of caution about the glue traps...picking up a glue trap...

Maybe a barrel of Damp-Rid?

Any animal that uses its nose to find stuff hates mothballs. Even snakes hate mothballs. Mothballs will chase all vermin, and sometimes loved ones, away.