Recent content by keithwvd

These should give a better idea of the situation:

The soil level on the right side of the garage is 12-18" above the garage floor. The right wall was framed on 12" of concrete presumably to account for the higher grade, but it's not quite enough. The left side of the garage where the grade is well below garage floor level the wall is framed...

It's about 18" The garage wall is sitting on ~12" of concrete on this side only

The solution Kaizen recommended would be reasonable, I was referring to taking the entire yard down to below the siding. I'll add a sketch of the property to explain. One of the first things the inspector mentioned was that the siding was closer to grade than ideal. I didn't realize it was...

Thanks for all of the input! The lot I'm on is only about 50' wide on a fairly steep hill and the garage is tucked right in the back corner. The neighbor's property drops 18" to my yard, the yard drops 18" to the driveway and then the driveway drops 36" to the adjacent lot. Running some...

I have a ton of work to do on the house which outranks finishing the garage, but I need the garage to be functional in the winter to complete projects for the house. Before I can even think about insulating the walls I need to figure out how to get the soil below the siding. I tried digging a...

Thanks for all of the input. The panel in the house was upgraded in 2008. It's a 30 slot panel with plenty of room for new circuits. There was one knob and tube circuit in the house which was replaced before we moved in and I'm currently replacing the last of the 2 wire BX. I just bought a...

I bought a house in NJ built in 1920 with some "creative" handywork. Attached is a photo of the fuse box in the garage. I'm not sure what type of wire this is that runs underground about 25' from the house to the garage, but I'm assuming I shouldn't have terminal blocks like this with...

my second successful garage sale: box is Homak USA and vice is Yost mfg 103 I paid $12 for the box, the vice, the oil filter wrench, and the jack plus I found vice grips in the road yesterday!

I don't know why I constantly check these threads. Nothing is ever on sale at the lowes or home depot by me, the home depot "clearance" table has items marked down by legitimately $0.02-$0.15 and if you're lucky you can save two quarters on a $30 item

Why can't the metric ever go on sale! If I found them for even $100 I'd buy them in a heartbeat, these things are awesome. Unfortunately I use 10/13/15mm far more than all sae combined.

I'm trying not to spend any money on tools right now, but this was offered to me for $300. This is most of it. There's a few other miscellaneous items such as a USA craftsman ratchet and unknown brand impact driver set. The main items that sparked my interest were the snap on clutch alignment...

just came across this thread: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=159605 where an owner of the same model posted a picture, and it's an 8.5V AC power supply, but he also mentioned it will run off of a car battery

So at the shop we have an old Snap On WB240 balancer where you spin the wheel manually instead of having a motor. Somehow the adapter was lost to plug the thing in. An electrician rigged up a small transformer to go from 120V AC to 11.5V AC and it worked for a week and then stopped. I'm...

it was marked down to $42 by me a few weeks ago, I would like a 3/8 so maybe I'll go back and look again soon