Recent content by MWC104

I'm in a similar situation........I need to move my office to the unfinished basement. There are no stud walls built and I've installed foamboard insulation on the concrete walls. When the house was built, they ran separate yellow romex j-box and white romex j-box for lights and outlets in the...

The track is supported in the far back and are higher than the rest of the track to get the door moving toward the front and down. The guy asked me this question today and I have the white nylon rollers. He told me those were junk and I'm going to have nothing but issues in the future. Since...

So, if a cable unwinds, and the door is all the way up you shouldn't be able to re-spool that wire around the drum and hook it to the door?

Well, got a call back from one of the head guys of the overhead door company here and he dropped the second bill but made sure to let me know that I made a poor decision in buying the LiftMaster 8500 and if "I'd been on the job and saw that you had that opener I would have walked away!". When I...

I should tell them I'll pay them $17 of the $97 bill to make up for the $80 in push springs I had to buy from the other company. At least then I could say I got something out of all this to make my door work properly XD

I'm back to update everyone. So the other door company came a week ago, installed pusher springs, and the door has worked flawless. I actually found (somehow) a thing on LiftMaster's website that said if the door is having issues with the cable tension monitor, a different radius track or pusher...

It's good to hear others have had a positive experience with this opener on large doors. I was so mad when he said it couldn't be used on the door. That right there told me he just didn't want to deal with it/doesn't have experience with it. I should probably call them and make sure they aren't...

So, I have a 18x8 insulated garage door. I bought a liftmaster 8500 for it and my 9x8 door. The 9x8 door works amazing, but I've had nothing but trouble on the 18x8 door. Sometimes, the door will begin to go down 2 inches, stop and reverse. about 8 times, it un-spooled the tension cable off the...

I have to order entry doors for the garage and was curious what size jamb thickness do I buy? The Amish builders are going to be using 1/2" sheathing on the outside, 2x6 studs, and going to finish the inside with 5/8 drywall (garage is attached). I was worried the 6-9/16 jamb wouldn't be wide...

I'm at work so these google map images are the best I can do. The house sits on a corner lot near a school. The 3D program I used I plugged in a 2-wide 36"x42" (72"x42" total) window to see how it looked.

Thanks for all the replies. I feel bad bringing my wife into this. She's actually a really great person, I just get frustrated trying to do things right where we both are equally happy. I guess I should admit that this garage really is just for parking the cars and having some storage (bikes...

She's the type to just laugh and tell me I'm silly bc I'd be wasting my own money instead of just walking out to my wood shed and grabbing a tool. I only imagine what the neighbors think when I'm dragging my floor jack across the yard...

I hear you guys. Basically she says bc its attached its only for parking cars and storing very few things. If I want a shop I'll have to build one later on....and guarantee I will and I'll do whatever the ef I want to do! With that said, will I regret just using the garage door windows for my...

I had a feeling I would regret typing that :lol_hitti

Hi, Guys! So, I've made a few posts on here about an attached garage project and I'm happy to say it's underway and I've been real excited.....until my wife told me I can't have my tools in it...but that's a different problem. Okay, so I wanted to put a couple windows on the back wall and on...