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There are a couple options. 1. Staple up or unfaced insulation and add a housewrap to the bottom of the joists. This will help seal the floor and insulate it from the cold crawl space. 2. Spray foam the floor from the crawl space area. This will seal the floor from all moister/air penetration...

If you are on the fence about how long a good quality standing seam roof lasts, I have an old farmhouse built before 1900, and I believe the standing seam roof was put on around 1940? I have no leaks yet. It does look quite rusty and we are replacing it this fall with a new standing seam roof...

I am with you guys on this, but I will also listen to some of the old school classic christian rock such as Stryper, Whitecross, Holy Soldier, Shout, Mastedon,

My plans are to run a condensing boiler to heat my radiant floors for the house. I have 4 loops at 200 feet long for the kitchen and another 4 loops at 200 feet for the bedroom and bathroom. I have a 40 gallon hot water heater that I want to use for a storage/buffer unit and I will fee that...

I installed the Larsen GrandVue 800. It is really nice for the price. I paid about $350 for it from Menards. It has a track on each side and rolls up with a chain. It works awesome for a one car garage door.

Ok, so if you only want to do your roof once in a lifetime, spend the money on hidden fastener metal roof. Yes the snow does slide off sometimes all at once, but if designed correctly that isn't a problem. My house has the original standing seam metal roof from before 1950, and it still does the...

If you didn't want it to be portable, what I would suggest is to have the ground on the side that you want to cut from lower say 2' or so. Then slope the platform slightly to that side and put up a small 2x6 rail. This way when you drive/pull the log onto the platform it will roll down to the...

Has anyone tried the Larson GrandVue 800? It looks promising, but also $350

Concrete work is mostly in the prep. If you know what you are doing when you prep it, the pour goes pretty smooth. I have done all of my own work from design/forming/pouring. Having the correct tools also helps, but if you are only doing it one time, it might be easier to hire it. Flat work is...

Some people do not like Radiant heat for some reason or another. I am not sure if their system was designed correctly or what. I like the fact it can be -20 outside and if I want to walk around barefoot on the concrete, I can. In my workshop with hot air, you won't be waking around without...

Are you heating this shop? Because if you are already planning on putting the insulation down, then you should look at running PEX tubing in the concrete. EVEN if you don't think you will heat the floor, if you ever WANT to, it will be there. Another $500 will pay for the tubing in the concrete...

I had this happen in my old farm house. Fortunately my house had blown in insulation that was still in very good shape, so what I did was pull the plaster off and leave the lath. Then I just put up new sheet rock. It turned out great. And having all the lathe on the wall you could put a screw...

I have a probably a 40' run in a crawl space that gets pretty cold at times, and I have installed a circulator to the hot water lines and then taped them to the cold water line then wrapped them in insulation. It keeps everything from freezing.

I have a workshop that I put down used carpet in it to work on. It works pretty good while working on cars. It won't "warm" the cement, but it will keep you a little warmer while working on it. After a couple years, I throw it out and look for another carpet. If you talk to the carpet...

I have done a fair amount of searching, just not sure of what I should use. I am looking for a concrete sealer that will help seal a radiant slab garage floor. In MN we get a quite a bit of snow, so that snow melts off the cars and unto the concrete. One of my concerns is will the water still...