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Where are you located? I'd be surprised if we haven't met. It did make the front page of the Prescott Daily Courier last Tuesday. My dad is already looking into a metal replacement building, and searching for deals for tools on craigslist. Can't keep him down!

Thank you for this. I have advised my father to look into getting an adjuster. Currently the insurance company is trying to get out of paying for his '34 by calling his project a car, even though it has never been on a road, never ran, never had a VIN, been registered, etc. It has always only...

Wow, many thanks to everyone who has responded with support and advice. You can bet that I am going to take every possible precaution when I start to outfit my shop. Thank you. My dad was yelling at the fireman to save his car :) Naturally they were more concerned about the fire spreading to...

My dad is on the left, walking over the hose. I can only imagine him thinking at this point it wasn't going to be a total loss... The garage door on the left. He must have closed it after he got it out.

Wow, quite a lot of responses here. Thank you. To answer some questions, yes, the fire had something to do with the wood stove. Metal chimney. He used untreated wood from a trees. He started a small fire then went back inside the house to let it heat up a little. Something he has done most...

The unthinkable happened to my father over the weekend. His two story garage that we built with help from family and friends back in 1991 burnt to the ground. Other than the decades worth of accumulated and inherited automotive and woodworking tools was his project '34 Ford 'glass coupe that he...

Good advice, I'll give it a try. Thanks!

That's nifty, I really like that. Unfortunately I don't have an existing hole to repurpose, or any other reasonably easy place to drill a hole and put something like that. The kitchen is fairly new, but when they did it they really should have started over from scratch. It's pretty much a...

We have a winner! I flipped the switch on and the GFCI reset like it should when I pressed the button. Plugged the disposal in and it works like magic. It's an old house, 1939. Some areas have been updated, other areas like this... not quite all the way. Someday the kitchen will receive a...

But I want to change that. I'm mechanically inclined but electricity has always been one of those black magic things that I don't completely understand (especially when it comes to home/garage electrical). I've got a small electrical issue in the house that I want to tackle as a first step in...

Thank you... So far just cruising around the site I'm a little overwhelmed, now I know what it feels like when newcomers enter one of my favourite forums :) Can anyone recommend some threads with well thought out and organized two car garage spaces? I know about Jack Olsen's, that is what led me...

Hi all, I'm Zach and I live in beautiful Seattle. My girlfriend and I moved here last year and we just recently purchased a two car garage with an attached two bedroom home. We're both happy. :) I've been into old cars my whole life, also vintage bicycles more recently, and well anything old and...