Recent content by blackbriar51

DEnd, Thank-you! That was an excellent post, now i'm starting to finally get a good picture on this after all the years gone by. Tomorrow i am going to try to submit a drawing with all the actual room sizes etc and see if there may be some good suggestions as far as the mini-split systems go...

This house would not have passed code today or in 1969 if there was not a dividing fire wall from floor to roof dividing living space from garage space. It is defined as 1/2" sheet rock barrier and a solid core 2 hour rated fire door. Every garage out here in the P.N.W. with a furnace, it's...

Thats some really great advice guys, much of what i had never thought about, however some of the draw backs are this house was built in 1969 in a low income sub-division outside Seattle,Washington. It can get down to zero but rare, generally it stays in the higher thirties and rarely snows...

That's pressing the boundaries of "Six Sigma ODDS" , but i have seen some logic defying circumstances that makes us think fearfully in that direction, but then that's why compressed air cylinders also have a copper pressure burst disc located in the base of their on/off valve, just in-case.

I understand this, perhaps my wording, wanting to turn a specific light off with a switch, say to change out a lightbulb Through a photoelectric eye The photoelectric eye is controlling the circuit, not a 3-way, the only way the outdoor lights would be energized is through the activated...

Could someone please help me with the wiring of this circuit? I posted a diagram of what i need. I understand basic wiring etc.. I'm just not sure how to tie it all together in an efficient manner. What i want to achieve is for the single photo-eye to turn the lights off and on at dusk and...

Put a kitty-kat door in your office door and use a free standing unit with a 4" dryer duct to vent off into the warehouse. Tell your employees to be careful when opening the door and that too, you can establish a door stop so that it only opens so far. Buy your own "garage sale" door, fit the...

Hi Fellas, Hoping someone can help me here with some good decisions. Getting closer to 60 yrs. I believe i will probably winter it out here until the end but one never knows. I am slowly remodeling and moving different house features around to make life more comfortable and more roomy inclusive...

Lowry, If your door is a torsion unit you can mount the opener off to one stile and it should work fine, but if it is a stretch spring unit forget it. You would probably have to turn the reverse sensitivity all the way down in order for it to work. List what size door it is in width and height...

Lowry, Best to have pictures when you are describing something like this , but i believe i understand what you are saying here. What we used to do is build a "T" bar or Draw Bar. Using a piece of Flex-Angle or commonly referred to as pre-punch, span the horizontal length of your top door...

I am a retired professional garage door installer of over twenty years in the trade. I would recommend Liftmaster , though they are made in Mexico, Liftmaster also made Sears from what i remember, which basically the internals are identical in many of them. I've been out of the trade for about...