Recent content by Boomer343

Insurance companies prefer gas fire places over wood burners with corresponding rates . You may want to advise your company of the change in use.

I've all but quit using thinset for jobs like this. Some quick grab PL and a couple dabs of clear silicone caulking. Put up many square feet of the dry pack slate and no issues from any of it. Cut 9 inches out of a brick hearth that looked out of place after the bookcases were removed. Had to...

Besides using the evaporust for rust I have found it is excellent for pulling out old fuel residues from the motorcycle carbs and tanks I restore. Carbs like clean fluid or will discolor. I also use evaporust to clean camshafts of oil, pistons of carbon, valves of carbon etc. It takes time but...

From the Office of Dewey, Srewum and Howe, Purveyors of Fine Pole Barns Dear Mr CVC MAN, Thank you for your inquiry about the naughty wood and the multitude of pictures showing the same from the recent build of our company's pole barn for you. While we can assure you that the naughty wood is...

Sorry I misread as only being 2 years old but then see that's when you moved in. Call a concrete polishing company. They may have some ideas.

That's just a poor concrete mix and job. My garage has seen lots of salt/freezing and after 30 years shows less concrete spalling. You may have issues with a top coat having anything to properly bond to.

That's not how a wood basement is built. Built a house for myself in the 70's that had no concrete just wood and it's still standing and occupied. Built others that had concrete footings, wood walls then a concrete floor.

What adhesive? Very few are qualified to be structural. If you are driving into old fir etc I would be predrilling. I have drilled the new wood before installing as the old shoulders really dislike overhead work.

I helped a fellow that had his garage flooded with silty river water. He had lots of volunteers working on his house but needed his tools cleaned. That river silt is nasty stuff and of course filled with organic material. I used my small ultra sonic to clean the tools after rinsing them in a...

Based on the job that was done on the drywall and based on my experience trying to fix old drywall I would be pulling the drywall and starting fresh. I doubt there is proper blocking or electrical and it would also be a good time to redo the layout if need be. Good luck with it.

I would say that the way you are trying to do the drain with the 1 1/2 and the vent isn't going to pass a code inspection. With that in mind I would either just wet vent it or put in an AAV using the 1 1/2 ABS.

On retrofits you quite often end up with a mixture of home runs and branch. With today's low flow fixtures the small drop in volume isn't an issue as has been pointed out. You can do home runs to high demand or larger diameter to second floors then branch off. Use a hair dryer to straighten...

Well the primary goal is to lift my cars. In a 20 x 22 garage that holds 2 cars, 2 to 3 motorcycles and storage racks there isn't room for a dedicated MC lift. Oh and one corner of the garage is cut off at a 45 degree angle. I know there is a top piece available to cover the two lifts side by...

So I'm looking to purchase a set of these, Quickjack BL-5000. I'm also thinking about a way to stack them and use them as a MC lift. Currently that would be for my 70's CB350's and occasionally my 03 BMW RT1150. I know there would be some fab work involved but for those of you that have these...

Being 5 or 6 feet off the ground adds a lot of time to a deck build. If you don't have much experience it probably isn't the best project deck to learn on. Couple things I like to do is put the joists on 12" centers. Last one I did the owner had a service come in that augers in a steel support...