Recent content by 99PanozAIV

My garage floor developed a few cracks and a "hollow" sound in one location. There is a local guy here who has a "slab-jacking" business which injects concrete under high pressure into the sub floor space. Mine took about 3 cubic yards in a regular two car garage. The only sign it's been done...

Anyone notice the growth of this conglomerate? It is the result of the merger of Cooper Industries and Danaher's mechanics tools group and is separate from Danaher now, as an independent company. They carry the Sata brand which is, I think, the only mechanics tools in China with a lifetime...

Yeah, we're pretty far along in that. We thought about self contracting, even bought a how to book. Both of us though, just starting retirment, are pretty much career burnouts. I'm just not sure we're up to it. That's one of the reasons we want to down size, even just upkeep on this place is...

We've been looking at new places in Frederick county, just to see what money will buy; they all have fire sprinkler systems. We've had drawings done by local architect and cost estimates done by construction management guy that was recommended, separately, by both architect and wife's real...

We're in New Market, Frederick County, about 10 minutes from Frederick city. The property we bought is up Rt. 15 only about 10 minutes from downtown Frederick, with a Thurmont post office address.

My first post here. I'm not sure how active I'll be here...just looking for ideas. We are starting retirement and want to down size. We bought a nice 5 acre piece of property but are now finding that it will cost us almost as much to build a smaller place as what our larger place is worth if we...