Recent content by akjose

I definitely catch what you’re throwing down with fixing it now. I am running out of time with weather right now but should be able to hit it up on Tuesday and cut the studs. Thankfully my dad noticed the error or I may have trusses in the air right now. He assumed I knew wha I was doing when...

I assumed my slab was more perfect than it was. I knew there was a high center but I thought my forms were better than they were. We used screed stakes in the middle in but still wasn’t perfect. It was my first time pouring concrete and not too bad considering. Finish is awesome. All that said...

no inspector here. Thanks, this is the route I was thinking with cutting off. I'll have to get at it this evening when the sun goes down. I think if i shimmed the left side it would be too much shimming but I'll see what it checks out at. I could probably use some lags to cinch down some...

Long time lurker from years ago. Currently working on a 24x18 garage. I have the walls up and ready for trusses to go on. I discovered that my concrete forms must have been a little high in the back right corner. From the image, it looks like my back wall is about 1.5" too high on the right...

I ended up taking the 7500w back and getting a 5kw heater that doesn’t use the control board. It is in another thread on here that I can link to later. I think it is in the heating section. The 5k version doesn’t have a contactor, or a board. I added a 24v/240v contactor in place of the...

I really like these lights maxima style. They have a junction box and the light is very thin. Has a small low voltage wiring that goes from junction box transformer to the light. I put these in my basement and they are bright. They now have a 25’ extension cord for the low voltage side and...

This wiring does work. The W1 and w2 wires only put out 8v when heat is off and 28v when heat is on. You can select either in the ecobee settings. Ecobee thought it was a boiler set up since I only had the Rc and c wire hooked up. C does not go to ground, it must be to common back to the...

Does yours have a fan speed option. I thought there was only 1 knob or does it control both? I think this will work, and i plan on working on it some this weekend. I am not 100% that the contactor will work using the W wire for heat call. I believe the fan on this model does not run after...

I am curious why you can’t use the packard contactor and 24v transformer in place of the factory relay. Why have the contractor only for the heat circuit. 1 stab of the contactor or main can go to the board What voltage is the heat1 wire coming to/from the board? From what I can gather the...

The specs you are looking for would be the "foot candles on" and "foot candles off" value. I'll let you google what a foot candle is. Grainger sells alot of industrial conduit or stem mount units and you can see all the specs on those (at least to get an idea on how much they vary). At my...

Do the AFCI/GCFI outlets that are available now count the same as the breaker? Could the OP replace his breakers with standard breakers and use a GFCI, AFCI, or combo outlets at the first one in line and still be code compliant or does the code specify a breaker? I understand the AFCI aspect...

kuba, very interested in this write up. I am wanting to use an external wifi thermostat to control the heat and set up to not run when noone is home (such as ecobee or the like). Also, I would think there would be a way to use the existing front panel wiring to go to go to an external...

Bunker garage is the name

Wouldn't it smarter to sell them wisely and split more money? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would honestly go with these instead: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Lithonia-Lighting-Mini-Strip-2-Light-White-Fluorescent-Utility-Light-MNS5-2-28-LP/100654408 4' T5 and it comes with 2 bulbs. I would stack double them up end to end. They are much brighter than the T8.