Recent content by brice017

Just built my house/garage. Make sure they insulate the entire garage by default. My builder sheet rocks the entire garage but only insulates the interior facing walls. $250 well spent. After insulation and before drywall, I went in and ran wires for garage door openers (wall switch/...

Any chance they are located in the mid Atlantic region? Putting the finishing touches on my garage and about to spend 4500 for a new one.

Does anyone make a completely wireless garage door system, including photo eyes sensor and interior wall station? Searching and finding nothing, but makes no sense why no one has ever produced such a system. My OCD is kicking in. Thanks!

Thanks. Turns out the online floorplan is old (online) and that the morning room is 2 ft longer and is flush with the rear of the house (he showed me more detailed construction drawing).

In the process of building a house with a national builder. They just poured the footers and the footers do not match the floorplan of the house. Is this typical construction or did they mess up? The picture is of the rear wall's footer. far corner is the morning room bumpout and should be...

Slid right off the wrecker with ease Used five 1/2 inch gas pipe and slowly slid lift off of wrecker onto the pipes, doing like the Egyptians did back in the day. Used two 36" pry bars to lift the lift to get the gas pipe out and wiggled the lift into it's final location. All my fears and...

Thanks for the ideas guys. Lift comes in 2 hours .... fingers crossed.

good idea ... tow truck driver should be able to place it onto wooden blocks when he drops it off. But, I still need some way of getting the lift off the pallet jack when I get it correctly positioned. I'm all of 130 when wet, as well as all my friends. It's a good 1000 lbs, probably more...

I've been lurking on this forum for a while now. Finally took the plunge and purchased a used low-rise commercial grade lift (price was a steal). Operational, couldn't be happier. I am having a roll-back tow truck pick it up and deliver it to my garage. first mistake - I have a 2 car garage...