Recent content by NEPA_Z

The power company consultant was very helpful; inspected the site and proposed a new pole on my property with power drawn from an existing pole across the road. Choice of overhead or underground service from the pole to the building - and no upfront cost apart from my needing to trench, etc...

Thanks for the insight, everyone - much appreciated. I have a meeting with the power people on Monday; we'll see what happens.

Hi, all, from frozen PA. I'm planning a hobby garage on an undeveloped lot on a rural road. My building will be about 100' from the road, where power passes by via existing poles with drops to the homes; there are houses on either side of my lot. My question is, what might I expect from the...

Be sure to properly derate the lift's load specs relative to the weight and dimensions of the boat & trailer. At least one lift manual I read said something like 'rated load valid only when wheels not more than X" from ends of the runways'; ie centering the load severely increases the bending...

I built my house some years ago with 12' garage ceilings in anticipation of lifts one day. That day came in late 2006 and I needed to have a 16x7 door changed over to a high-lift arrangement. I determined the retailers don't really sell this hardware out of liability concerns so I called two...

There's a 'ladder' structure that hangs in each column from a threaded rod. The rod is nutted above the top plate, so adjusting the nut on the rod changes the height of the ladder, each step of which is a locking position. It's very easy to level the unit all 'round with this. I believe a number...

Cheap-door advantage: When I built my home a couple years ago I specified two very good 16x7's. What got delivered by accident were two 'builder grade' doors which are lightly insulated but otherwise inexpensive with an unsealed lap joint instead of T&G. No one spotted it until they were...

I just bought and assembled the standard-height Revolution and am very satisfied. I picked it up from the freight terminal on 12/18 and was running it up and down on 12/20 after two evenings of assembly. As a finnicky mechanical engineer I was very pleased with the quality of the kit, from the...