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Hey everyone. I have a 2 year old detached garage here in SE Iowa. 32'X28'x10'. Completely drywalled 6" insulated walls, with 6" of blown in insulation above. It has one 16' garage door, one walk in door and 2 small windows. Would 50-60k btu's heat it well enough? I would rather have too much...

Mine is a 2013 Ford F150 and it has the Car2U. Funny that ford used both in the 2013 production year.

Is yours the Homelink or Car2u buttons?

Hey everyone, I have a 2013 Ford F150 that has the Car2u opener buttons on the visor. Similar to Homelink, but different. It would not work out of the box so I bought the Car2u repeater that says would make the opener and Car2u compatible. But it still wont program to work using all the right...

I definitely plan on it being lightweight storage. Most likely it wont be much more than 4 sheets of OSB. Not storage all the way across the attic area. Just wanted to figure something out with the drwallers starting in a day or two.

Hey everyone, I have a question that will probably be so easy to answer that I will be embarrassed. I have very limited carpentry skills or time, so I had a garage built for me. 28' X 34'. Now that it is finished being built I was ready to start insulating and drywall with a little bit of...

That makes sense. Don't know how I got that idea in my head. I thought I read it somewhere. I would then go with a 4" tile along the backside and then down the side with two downspouts emptying into that. Then it would be a steeper shot down to the street. But with a heavy rain and lots of...

It is about 100 feet from the street to the back of the garage. If I go with oversize gutters and downspouts, would 5" tile be large enough to handle the runoff from the roof? I still need to check with the city, but I believe it has to dump before it reaches the sidewalk. Here is a picture...

Hey everyone. I have a 1000 sq.ft., 34'X28' garage 90% built on a floating slab here in Iowa. It is a detached garage built in my backyard. The yard has a bit of a slope from the back to the front of my lot. My contractor/friend, (I know, should have never went that route), has been pretty...

My concrete was poured last November and is still very clean. It's floated pretty smooth. Would an acid etch be good enough, or would it need to be ground down?

Hey everyone, My garage is being built now, about 70% complete. It is 28' X 34', about 950 sq ft. I wanted a good quality epoxy floor for about $400, but the more research I do it looks like it will be quite a bit more than that for what I want, and my square footage. Ideally I want a 100%...

I have heard for a long time, but had a local contractor tell me that you can build up to your property line with written agreement from your neighbors. The city has certain stipulations for this along with printing it in the local newspaper (don't know why), but is there a written contract...

Hey everyone, I have a couple questions here. I want to start by saying I haven't built this garage yet but hope to have it up and wired by November. I'm just having the property surveyed right now so I don't run into any issues with the local building inspector. So right now I'm just in the...

Ok, thanks Hiball. I'll have to get at that tommorrow.

I took the plug out of the left side and pulled out a longer cone shaped spring. I didn't have a magnetic pointer so i magnetized an awl i had in my toolbox. I couldn't pull anything else up. This jack has never been apart before. Back together again it wont hold my weight. Same as before...