Recent content by Adam R

In my situation, the epoxy and urethane were applied a few days apart. My floor was 28 years old, it hadn't rained in Colorado for weeks prior, humidity was in the 20's and temps were in the upper 60's. And again, the underlying epoxy has been fine. As for epoxy not being chemical or stain...

I've done 3 garage floors over the years and this latest one was a little bit of a PITA. For the first two, I used Sherwin William HS 1000 with great results. Both times I put down 2 layers of epoxy and the floors turned out great. One was in Virginia and second was here in Colorado. My...

I put down a couple of inches of millings on our 700 foot driveway earlier this summer. I hand spread and raked it as flat I could. Over the summer it compacted and looks a lot like real asphalt. In this past month, I had 500 yards of dirt delivered in tandem dump trucks. The driveway looks...

I mis-spoke about the door size. They are 7' tall by 8' wide. There is nothing above the garage except trusses, but I've put some flooring up there to make it useable attic storage, but nothing overly heavy. I had a garage door contractor out today that seemed pretty knowledgeable. He...

We bought a place that has 3 - 7' x 7' garage doors. The floor to ceiling drywall measurement is 10' 1.5". My thought is to make one door an 8' x 8' door and combine the other two doors into an 18' x 8' single door. The garage is open span so structurally, the wall with the doors in it has a...

I only use anti-sieze on bolts that I intend to remove at some point in the future....My 8oz jar is getting pretty low these days. It has only lasted 25 years. Time to get another, and probably my last, bottle of the stuff.

Been using anti-sieze on the lugs for 35+ years and a million+ miles without issues. However, do not put anti-sieze on the lug nut mating surfaces. I did some testing a while back and discovered that clamping forces can go up by a factor of 3x which will lead to yielded lugs or broken lugs or I...

JB Weld can work in pinch, or for quite some time in my experience. I used a combination of JB Weld and fiberglass drywall repair mesh and built it up like a fiberglass repair. Scuff up the repair area and clean the plastic really well. It actually held for well over a year, but eventually...

Set up a shop vac by their entrance and then grab a lawn chair and a beer. Cheap and very satisfying entertainment. 30 minutes later the nest will be empty and bees inside the shop vac are so battered that they can no longer fly. Put them in a plastic sack with some insect killer and it's...

Having done a dozen or so DITY moves myself, I like using Penske trucks and have had to fly back and grab a second truck as I've added weight and mass over my career. I'm over my allotted weight limit and do not trust movers to transport any goods that I really like, like my shop tools and...

I have a very simple spreadsheet with 3 columns on it that includes date, mileage, and maintenance performed. The sheets are cut down and are glued to the back pages of the owners manual which I keep in the glove box of each vehicle in my fleet. In the case of my wife's vehicle, I can see...

Not all 8 lug truck wheels are the same. Ford and Dodge are indeed different depending on the year.

After 15 moves in the past 23 years, I prefer the Penske truck solution and I move 80% of my stuff on my own. I'll let the movers move the big bulky stuff that I don't really care about like couches, chairs, tables, beds, etc. Tools, things that go bang, other valuables etc, are not items I...

Speaking from personal experience, there is a significant amount of euphoria when it comes to buying your first home. Everything, or most everything, will look acceptable, if not perfect. Although I've done plenty of construction and building over the years, I did not have a lot of time to...

Do you get extra credit for doing 10 or more of the silly things above at some point in your life? I don't like to waste time or movement so I'll always turn on a drill press and insert the bit with my right hand and grab the chuck with my left to quickly get the chuck to close down on the bit...