Recent content by james_98188

No offense taken, at this point I was just seeking out a rough order of magnitude.

Thanks all, for the great information. Yes, I've checked the setbacks and, if I take out the shrubs along the north property line, it should fit.

Seattle. Probably not too different than SoCal.

Hello, can anyone here from personal experience tell me about what it would cost to widen an attached one car garage to a two car garage? It'd follow the roofline of the house, so no major redesigning of the general house shape. So, just moving one wall outward. I was thinking $10k - $20k...

I've heard the same thing about J-Bolts, but haven't had the best luck with wedge anchors either - maybe my concrete quality isn't the best. I"ve heard (and will be trying) epoxy anchors (Hilti) to replace some failed anchor wedges. They're supposed to be much stronger. Does anybody know if...

The photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/16521220@N04/8690685374/in/photostream

My scheme for mounting my air compressor is as shown in the photo. The idea was to let the thing's vibrations be isolated from the concrete hence the vibration pad - and then it occurred to me that if it was vibrating against the bolt through the attaching nut, that would defeat the purpose -...

Yes, of course there are different strengths of threaded rods - just as there are different strengths of bolts. Different alloys and, I imagine, heat treats. There's the soft metal hardware that you can get at your neighborhood hardware store that you could easily twist the head off with hand...

My garage probably isn't high enough to justify a lift installation, but it's still a tempting idea. The thing is, the idea of a two post lift seems a little unsettling to me, as I doubt the load would ever be ideally balanced. I've a mid-engined sports car, and the process for removing the...

Great thread, I'm in a similar situation. I used a number of 5/8th inch stainless anchor wedges from Boltdepot.com to pull down the sill boards down tight against the concrete pad I had installed for the shed Tuffshed crappily installed. Their installation had large gaps left betwen the sill...

Two questions: 1) Will your brother be visiting Seattle any time soon, and, if so, 2) What kind of beer does he like?

So you just slip it under a couple of the feet and have at it? I DO have a hand truck rated for 700 lbs, so that might work almost as well. It hasn't gotten away from you by angling it a little too far?

Yeah, that looks like the the 80 gallon version of my 60 gallon IR. I copied your photo and blew it up to try seeing exactly what you were living the compressor from - and it looks like on one side you hooked a hole on that side of the saddle. Same thing on the other side? It DOES look like...

I'm kind of coming back to this as everything else is starting to sound like it's making the job more complicated than it needs to be. It's been really easy to walk the compressor around on the shed's concrete floor - so maybe for getting the pads under the feet (or later, getting the...

How heavy is your compressor???