Recent content by doubloon

One nice looking lift. I like the use of unistruts. Would you mind sharing the estimated cost of materials in your investment?

I would like to see the out of date and unmaintained sticky in the flooring section replaced with a simple run down of popular flooring options and links to active/recommended vendors. I don't see a problem with site sponsors identified and listed first. I do think replacing the poorly...

From what I've read many people on this site consider etching to be an inferior route. People seem to think renting a diamond grinder gives better results but you have to be willing to live with the possible swirl marks from the grinder.

springs seem to be rated by the weight of the door and priced accordingly I have extension springs not torsion and I have always replaced my own buying them at the local hardware store for about $15 each I had trouble finding one once which was when I called the garage door company and got a...

I was quoted $200+ a while back for a spring replacement but the guy thought I had the single torsion type spring and not the pair of extension springs. They charge more to replace single torsion than extension pairs. Some places won't even sell you the single torsion to replace yourself for...

This is what I have in my garage now, white peg board from HD. It's been on the walls for 15+ years and the only problem I've had is sometimes the little plastic hook retainers break when I pull tools off the wall. I looked at the metal wall control stuff for the new garage but it's hard for me...

Old sayings go with old ways, things change. In the 1700s when those sayings were coined you couldn't just hop in the buggy and go to the local WalMart to pick up a new pump. It was a several day lead time minimum to get anything replaced when those sayings were first popularized. We live in a...

All this, no one right answer. Sometimes it's more cost effective to replace the problem part/tool/equipment. Plus there's a big difference between your own personal hobby workshop and a production workshop. Hobby guys get a certain sense of pride/validation from running a shop in tip-top...

The video is a great summary of options. I think a link to this video and a few links to flooring and material suppliers active in this forum would be an excellent replacement for the current flooring sticky with all the outdated information and broken links. The information available at All...

cool, the row and column features are nice

New here researching floors as well, concentrating mostly on the practical and I've gotten good info from members and searching. If I were looking for the "wow factor" I would go full terrazzo, that's what epoxy chip appears to try to imitate anyway. Or do epoxy chip with different colors from...

Thanks

tag for epoxy floor options I don't have any answers but I want to follow this thread for all the same reasons. The flooring sticky is dated with broken links so I'm not sure if more up to date information isn't available somewhere else on the forum.

Sounds useful, I joined today mainly to research flooring options. This site is a great resource so far but this thread appears to have lived past its useful life. The original list in the first post looks like it was created back around 2006 and most of the links are busted, I'm thinking...