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Had it on my garage floor for 7 years. Menards was discontinuing it so I bought 5 gallons of it real cheap. Gas eats it, brake fluid eats it, brake clean eats it. In the winter you tires will peel it up. For the money compared to epoxy, it's good, don't expect it to be bulletproof, buy...

Went thru this while installing a welder outlet in my garage. I installed a 4 prong, then changed the welder over to 4 prong. At least the house is to code and the welder doesn't know the difference.

you could block wall or pour concrete walls. A trencher is your friend here, dry ground and accurate trenching and you could use the dirt as the majority of your form, set anchors into the concrete as wall tie downs instead of drilling later. If you concrete, you can stub rebar into the...

Definately use visqueen/plastic under your slab. I heat my shop when I'm working in it to 55. You can feel the cold from the floor .

I used osb except shared walls got 5/8 drywall. I do enough rough work that drywall would get beat up, my shop is a shop, not an extension of the house, welding, grinding, shooting paint, tearing apart and rebuilding cars is the use. It is unheated except when I'm working, so bringing the...

It's worth the time to look at radiant floor heat. This requires an insulated slab and a frost wall on the slab to be most effective. If you trench the loops deep you may be able to get away with just running a pump to circulate, and use ground temp to keep the building above freezing. It will...

I've always used backed in walls behind drywall, I honestly can't say why, it's how I was taught to do while working for a builder, I would think un backed may sag down the wall over time if not secured with staples. you might consider blow in for the attic, if you buy enough bags the machine...

No need to tear it down, you can lift the garage, cut out 4 feet or so of the side that's sinking and pour cap slab over what's there, on the side that's sinking, put in a 2 foot or so below grade "frost wall" with a stone base to keep it from sinking again. You could do the same with a new...

Go as light as possible or plan on doubling you light fixtures, light color also helps when you drop parts

Ive got a Xylene based coating on my floor, dont remember the manuf. got it on clearance from menards and bought all they had. Brake fluid and gasoline turn it back to jelly, so any spills need to be wiped up right away. peel areas under tires during winter, dont know if its due to frozen...

Thanks for all the help with this, The 4 wire dryer outlet requirement for code and no neutral needed for welder threw me on this install.

MRB, Yes, thats what Ive been reading, the old style plug wont pass code anymore, my house was built in 2006. I bought a 3 pole 4 wire dryer outlet and installed it with the neutral to meet code. Home Depot has a Leviton cord end that will reconfigure for either 30 amp or 50 amp 3 pole 4...

Perfect, so I run the bare ground to the L shaped terminal on plug? Can I just cap off the neutral in the box on both ends?

Wired my building recently - 30 x 44. I ran the outlets at 4 foot height, set the boxes loose, ran the wire, sheeted my first row, tied the boxes down tight, much easier to sheet that way, notch your 2nd row of sheeting and set in place. With your 16" stem wall dont know if this will work...

Ran a 30 amp 10/3 romex circuit, welder data plate showed 26 amp requirement. Question - Hook up breaker box ( red and black hot, hooked to breaker, white neutral hooked to terminal bar in box, ground hooked to ground terminal) Plug - Ive got the 2 diagonal with L shaped 30 amp plug, NEED...