Recent content by elm_street

I saw this for the first time today. I think I saw it from around 14:30 until around 19:00 or so. I am about 60-70 miles from Toronto.

I finally got around to calling in today. I got asked if I could disconnect the wall controller and then try reconnecting it. I stated that I had tried that and the controller seemed to work for about 10 days before it stopped working again. I was put on hold for a couple of minutes and when...

I have a LM8500 in my detached garage that is about 2 months shy of 4 years old. You will never guess what happened a couple of weeks ago. I was doing some futzing around in the basement one Sunday afternoon and the wife was reading a book on the deck that has a view of the garage. She pokes...

Can you get to any of the wiring in the garage easily? If you can you could just add a second switch in the garage and either keep the switch in the house on all the time or maybe do some sort of 3 way switch setup but that would require another wire from the existing switch.

If there isn't any sunlight in the garage you probably want the lights on when someone is in there. I have an occupancy switch in my detached 15x26 garage. It is a Lutron "learning" one that you can either set it to come on anytime there is motion or only when it is too dark. It learns what...

I think it depends on where your torsion bar is. I have a 7' door and 8' 4.5" walls (8 foot studs plus one bottom plate and two top plates, each 2x4'4). The LM8500 seems to have about 4" above the center of the torsion bar and my torsion bar is mounted about 5" from the ceiling. You can...

Welcome to GJ. Did you get that in the KW area? I swear I saw that saw on Kijiji yesterday. Anyway, I don't get a good sense of what is supposed to go where from your pictures. When you picked it up was it fully assembled and functional?

It isn't just you. We seem to be getting more rain overall this year just west of you over here in the Waterloo Region and we have had some pretty heavy downpours as well. On the positive side the lawn and garden are doing well without watering them.

We pay property taxes in Canada too and the property taxes include a school board portion. We also have the assessment stuff on properties that is used to calculate taxes. For the three houses I have owned the tax assessment has always been at least 20% less than the market value, sometimes...

Try 5 gallon buckets of hot tar (thankfully not full, maybe 3 gallons in them). I did two summers of flat roofing in my youth and hauling tar and gravel basically defined my summer afternoons (mornings were tear-off of the old roof). I only had to haul the tar on small jobs, on big ones the...

And jd_1138 types faster than me (and seems to have some actual experience with hoa's :) )

" Home Owners Association " which if I understand correctly is a group of people from a neighbourhood that oversee and enforce a set of rules that are supposed to keep the neighbourhood looking nice.

HA! That is great!

Good points, Nowater, thanks. I'm thinking that my first priority is going to be getting the walls done but I know that in order to be really effective I need to get either the ceiling or the underside of the roof done as well. I have a storage area in the rafters that has a plywood floor that...

I'm thinking that for my case since the difference is only around $60 that the stone wool is the way to go mostly from the comfort standpoint (I can handle using an upgraded respirator when doing the work) although the fire, sound and water related advantages are good too.