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    Cabinet Paint - What to use

    These are great recommendations especially the Sherman Williams products. I have been doing a lot of research before having to finish all of mine. Mine will be made out of all cabinet ply in garage. Spraying them with airless system.
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    Vinyl Siding Starter Strip Level Around Building

    The way we did mine was measure the lowest point on the building to the ground either being concrete etc to bottom of walls to cover up. Pull that measurement all the way around and pop a string line. The contractor that helped me said it was to ensure all the pieces will end up correctly and...
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    need advice; what paint to use on unfinished wood cabinets???

    Thanks for the advice custombuild. We are almost done building the cabinets for my garage and needs to start looking at painting.
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    How much wire goes into a new house?

    1500 home would take the way we wire roughly 3000' of 12/2 and at least one roll of 12/3 and 12/4 for HVL in every bathroom. Kitchens darn near are 6-7 circuits alone so depending on the panel location thats a lot of home runs! My 2800 sq ft home has about 5500' of wiring.... plenty of light...
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    Proctor Compaction Testing of Sub-Grade Material

    Ha, yes our specifications call for a check proctor (1 or 2 point curve) every 5 field densities and a sand cone density check every 10. Actual full proctor testing is performed every 1200-1500 cubic yards or visual material change. By the way you should never trust an aggregate source for...
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    Proctor Compaction Testing of Sub-Grade Material

    If you paid your structural engineer to do any analysis on geotechnical data than you should get a refund. Just because you have undiaturbed soil does not mean it is suitable for structural integrity or a certain load applied. There is a reason we do pile load tests and other analysis based on...
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    New garage - Must haves?

    When planning on mine I did a lot of reading here to get ideas and other searches. I have a 20x40 detached with 10ft ceilings which was there on property we just bought. The whole thing needed to be completely renovated so pretty much started from scratch. . I changed out my two crappy garage...
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