Recent content by jds62f

Any thoughts on where to get the aluminum? big box store ok?

Indeed there are vents at the top of the roof. My amateur thinking was that my house also has vents at the top of the roof in addition to vented soffits, and the attic of a house is typically unfinished (thus similar should apply here)

Hi, GJ has never steered me wrong before, so here goes: 26x28 detached, unfinished garage. HIP roof. Soffit and fascia is in need of repair - 1x6 pine (fascia) and 3/8" non vented plywood (soffit) is bad. Paint is peeling off, in some areas soffit has started to detach, as is fascia. I took...

The breaker on the main that goes to the garage looks like this, so I assume it is 240v/40a Thanks for confirming the load calculations drive the breaker and branch loads, not strictly the incoming values of the breakers feeding this panel. Understood that those breakers at the main do...

Hi, I have an existing detached garage, with wiring, but done poorly. I'm at the onset of planning, and i got great answers last time so I'm hoping someone will be gracious again. NEC 2014 is what I'm looking at for my area. I am looking at replacing all of the branches coming from this...

Tis all those things. thank you!

I'm wading into an overhaul of how the electric is distributed in my 2.5 car detached garage. There's an old wall furnace in the garage from when we bought the place, that I turned off the natural gas to it a long time ago because I considered it to be a fire hazard (furnace is very old...

Sorry to bump an aging thread, but this is the most recent topic on torque/extensions (and I'm already signed up for GJ), but this concept makes no sense to me. If you put an extension on a torque wrench AT ANY ANGLE, you HAVE changed the length, haven't you? Torque should be measured from the...

if I'm going to add in the missing joists, any input on how I go about finding the "right" joist to do it with? I assume I can't pick up any old 2x6 and use it... I found some markings on the existing joists. Looks like: No 1 S-GRN HEM-FIR-W

I'm hoping to glean some information from people who know better than I. My garage is a 2.5 car garage, looks to have been built in the 60's. Its got a hip style roof, and when I look inside I wonder if what I'm seeing can be right. There area total of 4 joists. The builder used 22' 2x6...

I actually had the opposite experience some people here had. When I changed the timing belt on my civic it was not leaking as far as i could tell, and then shortly after doing the timing belt.... a leak developed (crank). Now a year later I'm going to replace the timing belt AGAIN, and this...

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Hopin the garage types can help me out. What would you call a bolt that looks like this? The page refers to it as an eye bolt but I'm not finding any other pages that have eye bolts with the eye no larger than the width of the bolt itself....

I tried the AF bucket peanut butter trap from this thread. One day, one mouse! This trap is going to be great as it gets colder.

To be honest, I'm not sure its a problem myself. I don't believe I've got a vapor barrier and I'm trying to think of all scenario's above 'possible' when thinking about how to do the repair