Recent content by James-W

I don't keep any piece of wood less than 12 inches long. I cut them into smaller pieces and throw them into a heavy duty cardboard barrel and when it is full a friend of mine takes the small pieces of wood and burns them in his back yard. He has a burning pit and he has plastic chairs and he...

I may be out of line here, and if i am then I apologize. But I am thinking if I were you I would hire it done. You have spent a lot of time on this project and it seems to be a project that is not going quite the way you had planned it to go. At this late stage, I think I would bite the...

I get what you are saying, but I think this is sort of an apples and oranges thing. What I mean is, around here it is a low crime area and nobody has bars on their windows and/or doors. If I put bars on my garage window and on the door, would that not tend to signal I am trying to protect...

Like I said, I have heard that some people do that. I have not done it, but let's face it, a lot of people do crazy stuff in this world.

A few years ago I happened to stop at a friend's house when he was having his AC cleaned. The HVAC guy was using a real small electric pressure washer and it didn't seem to have a whole lot of pressure. However, it did squirt the water into the fins and "muddy" water was coming out, not sure...

I have heard that some people use a foaming oven cleaner, but I have not tried that and anyway I doubt that is what you are talking about. You can use a pressure washer if it isn't very powerful and will bend the fins.

I usually clean my central air condenser unit each Spring, but since we have had a cold and wet Spring I had not done it as of yet. But Sunday I decided that it was time to get it cleaned up and I got out the shop vac and garden house along with some 409 in a spray bottle. I removed the heavy...

If the electric motor slows down, you have a problem. If it slows down it will overheat and eventually burn out. Apparently that particular pump requires a 3HP motor (or larger) to run it.

My guess is the refrigerator problem you have is the compressor is starting to die. The common noise that you hear is when the compressor starts it is quite loud and then quiets down after maybe 10 seconds or so,

I know a guy who has a Drill Doctor. He sharpened one of my drill bits and it worked reasonably OK I guess. Not like when it was new, but not too bad. I have taken some dull drill bits to a guy who sharpens dull items as a part time job, he uses a Tormek to sharpen stuff. The drill bits come...

I have one window in the garage, but it is there so I can put in a window air-conditioner for those really hot and humid days of Summer. If it is a nice day and I am working in the garage, I can always open the overhead door for fresh air and extra light.

I am a bit confused, please help me understand. How is the water getting into the garage? You say you wash motorcycles in the garage. Is the water coming from the motorcycling washing, or is the water leaking into the garage from the outside? If the water is from washing motorcycles, you...

When I built my 24X36X8 garage I wanted to have storage space upstairs. This was back in 2012 and the trusses cost me $250 each at that time. The price you were quoted sounds way too much money to me, but then again, EVERYTHING is VERY high priced these days. So depending on where you live...

That's not a bad idea, it is always best to be sure there is power available at the outlet. But in this case if the outlet were dead the refrigerator inside light bulb wouldn't be working and because there is no light he would know right away there was no power at the outlet. Also, he didn't...

The defrost timer may be stuck in the defrost mode. If it is, the refrigerator will not cool because the compressor will not turn on until the defrost timer takes the refrigerator out of the defrost cycle. If the compressor is running but still no cooling, it is likely you have a sealed system...