Recent content by NBraun

I'm still trying to figure that one out. The EPS is all sealed with spray foam and foil tape. I'm sure they'll be able to chew threw that, but I've read they don't like the rockwool. I've read some people will put plywood or OSB on the bottom too. At that point I'm not sure what else a guy could do.

Short little update.. Been focusing on the porch and house projects, We tore down the old enclosed porch minus the roof. We dug and poured a footer for masonry steps and the porch, then framed out a floor with 2x10's. Filled them with R30 Rockwool bats and 1" EPS foam underneath the joists...

I spent a few hours today looking into this, not sure how I managed to miss that! Can the Poly ISO be touching the roof deck? I've seen where you cut the Polyiso to put in between the rafters and you seal with canned foam. I would be fine doing that. I'm trying to avoid tearing off the roof...

This is mostly regarding the roof, but figured id included the whole room for clarification. I am rebuilding our enclosed porch into a unconditioned 4 season(hopefully) room. The roof and walls will be new, but am keeping the existing roof. Im trying to insulate it as much as i can(within...

We're in a small county. As long as it is installed by a licensed contractor(with the state), there is no need for engineered plans. This was relayed to me by each of the contractors, and the fact that I can find ZERO information saying otherwise in the codebooks. It was an open ended system...

Unsure of the exact age, but the previous owner moved in sometime in the 80's so the neighbor and I are guestimating it'd be sometime in that decade. Current system is just an open ended pipe to the shelter belt. The pipe has failed and is leaking effluent in the yard. We will hopefully be here...

I figure some guys here probably have experience with this.. We live on an acreage, and recently our current leach field failed. Ive had 3 different installers come out, And recieved three different opinions. I'm now more confused than before. To preface, our county does not require soil...

Plane till is looking good! I did something very similar with the magnets. Unfortunately if you if hit the till hard enough it can still knock a plane out. Ask me how I know...

Oh for sure. I am overly cautious about that. Right now the chargers are plugged into a plug that gets turned off with the lights, so they're never on while I'm not actively in the basement. "Finished" iteration of the drill station. As I'll do the finishing details later. It wasn't till after...

The shavings being shot back up in my face was enough for me to decide it was worth it to figure something out lol. With the reorganization of the basement, I've been needing to find a solution for the tool batteries. I've been mulling it over for a while and decided last night to finally just...

That's not a bad idea, for what I want to use it for. The hard part i think would be finding a submersible pump that would fit in a 2" casing.

Well so far it's been an eventful June. No progress on the porch because our septic drain field decided to finally call it quits. We want to see how much that will run us before spending any more money on other projects. I've spent the last two weeks trying to get a few quotes from contractors...

One thing I noticed about the jointer is the dust collection is worse than just not having dust collection. The ramp causes the shavings to build up under the head and then get thrown back at you. I used it twice and decided something had to be done. First step was removing the old Sheetmetal...

some more Misc doings... The dump truck is already coming in handy for the acreage and cleaning up the shelter belt. I ended up winning a DJ-20 jointer on a local auction for not a terrible price. It needed a little clean up but was in otherwise good shape. After getting it disassembled to...

Too bad my previous weed eater didn't decide to die a little bit earlier! I ended just picking one up, because I needed to take care or the grass on the property. I was really debating going with a Stihl gas powerhead and their kombi system, just because of the size of my property but I really...