Recent content by jamesanderson

Not quite a fair answer - but I put a garage door behind the sliding barn door when I built my garage. The sliding barn door I liked for aesthetics purposes to mirror one that faces it but I did not want it to leak in (water) or out (heat). My contractor said that getting barn doors to seal is...

Wanted to relay my experience acid staining and coating my garage floor. Floor was about 90 days old when I started - and was 99% clean (a very few small oil leaks from an old British sports car...). 770 square foot (three cars). I did not want to do any mechanical abrasion on the new...

Exactly - the forklift was used just to offload the unit from the truck (I recall the unit weighs 1600lbs all in) and then i broke it down into the major components. I moved the columns using the engine crane - and then lifted them up to vertical with the crane, a well placed strap and a helper.

That looks like a great product - had not seen it mentioned before. Thanks.

Thanks for the link. Very helpful info - and an impressive job you did. Frankly reading the original article you posted gave me the idea for the approach - although i don't think I am going to be as bold as you in my color choice...

To be completely accurate you do need a fork lift to get the unit off the truck - my contractor from the garage project was still onsite when it came and he offloaded it into the garage for me. However, after that was done I used the engine lift for all lifting - and it was very effective. I...

Certainly not saying that buying a lift is a fully economically rational decision - its been on my bucket list for a while - and I had the chance to get one in a new garage I just built. Word to the wise - your spouse may well think that you’ve lost your mind buying an expensive hunk of steel...

I assumed they were the same - but the ones in the box had better diagrams, were better written, had been re-ordered to make more sense... I mentioned it because I had assumed the online ones would have been the most up to date available.

I would go for the best you can afford in car lifts. Raising 2 tonnes of steel above ones head is a scary thought in the first place - doing it on something one had “gone cheap on” just seems like a bad idea...

I just finished up installing a Bendpak 2 post asymmetrical lift (XP10 model) and I thought i would post a few things I learned from the exercise for the benefit of anyone else contemplating the same. Overall I have to say I found it to be a challenging - but quite satisfying project. It’s...

I’m looking to use an acid stain on a recently poured garage floor - to make it visually more interesting than gray...I will then coat with a sealer from one of the vendors on this site. My question is what brands have people used for acid stains - and do they have good or bad experiences to...