Recent content by markietas

I have a 40x72 shop. Due to my shop being a converted chicken house, the eve height is only 7ft on the sides. This means the only place I can really have doors is in the center of the short end of the building. I cannot express how much it ***** to not have garage doors along the long side of...

Not to mention that lift capacity is assuming the leverage point of a bucket, not forks. My backhoe has a rated capacity over 4000lbs but it won't lift an actual pallet anywhere close to that.

There is a big difference between keeping a driveway just above freezing and getting the slab to a comfortable temperature for a person.

OP I think you are overestimating the cost / difficulty of trenching between the buildings. This is something you and your brother can easily do yourself in a single day with a cheap trencher rental. 50' is nothing, I've done 350 in a day by myself. The wire / conduit cost will be completely...

Well the outdoor unit is usually where most of the cost is (compressor, valves, control circuit, ECT..) Unfortunately your indoor unit on its own isn't getting you that far ahead. And ductwork is expensive, not to mention the few benefits of a high velocity system don't really help at all in a...

For anyone curious you can dim 0-10v fixtures with a simple potentiometer (usually 10k ohms), you can even put a ton of them in parallel and do it with just one or do each fixture individually. You also do not need to use regular wire for the dimmer wires, I use cat5 (make sure you are...

I'm a big proponent of getting your workspace thermally comfortable as soon as possible, but there is an order of operations here. You skipped about 5 steps that should have happened before the mini split install. At each of these steps you should be thinking of how you are going to air seal...

I've gotten 2/0 from them and it came the same way, slightly annoying but I didn't have any issues once I straightened it out. Can't really expect a high level of attention to detail from the cheapest but still actually copper wire on Amazon/ eBay. It's unlikely very many strands are broken...

Senville is a good option since you don't need the diy type. You are likely not staying under $1k and I know people pull size recommendations out of their but all the time but we don't have enough information to really do that.

Well the other day I ordered 90 60# bags (I'm sure my back will thank me later). Picked up the Ryobi 5 cubic foot mixer, it was cheaper than HF and had a better weight capacity, also seems pretty well made. Definitely worth $79 home delivery fee, I had the driver bring the 2 pallets all the...

Yup, I'm not even completely done insulating my 40x72 building and I have an 18k mini split that keeps it above 60f when it's about 25f outside. I leave it on all day / night if I'm working a few days in a row ofc. It would take forever recover to that temp from below freezing. For anyone...

I do feel compelled to mention the vast vast majority of people with engineering degrees, who are employed as engineers, do not, and have no reason to posess a PE license. Like the several thousand engineers involved in designing an iPhone, for example.

You can definitely get high quality electronic locks for a business. Any modern office building has them. But they are definitely not marketed as "smart". And of course whether they are worth it is a different discussion, that I don't have a strong opinion about. Keywords would be "commercial...

Seems reasonable then, I'm sure that's probably on purpose to prevent the commingling. I have ordered multipacks of stuff that just showed up with a different or no brand on the package ( that's not applicable to what we're talking about here ) but I just wanted to mention that for others...

I want to point out for anyone not aware about Amazon: Amazon uses a co-mingled inventory system where parts of the same manufacturer and part number get combined together in inventory even if they're from different vendors. What this means is you can still get knock off items even if you're...