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I absolutely hate wall-to-wall carpet. I grew up in a house with carpet everywhere except the kitchen, bathrooms and front entryway. The house always stunk of pet stains and mildew, and no matter how many times it was cleaned it never really looked clean. My parents' current house is half carpet...

Back when I was a kid in the 1980s I remember one cold winter day when my mom hit the inside button to open the garage door, the opener groaned for a second and then the door raised up, leaving the bottom of the door frozen to the ground. It was a wooden panel garage door and the Craftsman...

Probably power for your alarm.

Friedrich used to build indestructible window air conditioners back in the day, but they have fallen victim to globalization like everyone else. To the best of my knowledge no one builds small air conditioners in the States anymore. It's mostly due to manufacturing economies of scale in Asia and...

Use an extension cord?

What color is the roof?

Keep in mind that swamp coolers are only effective with dry air so they don't work well in enclosed spaces unless they pull air from outside.

Open the doors and turn on the fans to circulate the hot air out of the building, and use the swamp cooler for localized cooling (pointed at you to make you feel cooler).

Just don't store the batteries in your house.

The Harry J Epstein Co. sells a variety of NOS Crescent wrenches: https://www.harryepstein.com/collections/crescent I've bought a few during Epstein Days over the years.

I have been eyeing a 6.5" cordless saw for a few years and one of these days I may just find some extra money in my budget for it. Both my city house and my lake house are on small pieces of property where outlets are within an extension cord's reach, so I don't have much of a need for cordless...

According to the specs, the 6.5" cordless Makita saw will cut just deep enough at a 45 degree angle to clear standard 2x lumber. I suspect the 6.5" DeWalt cordless saw would do the same.

I think for the average person in the average garage, most if not all tasks can be accomplished with cordless tools. For the rest of us above-average garage users, most tasks can still be performed with cordless tools, but there are some tasks which require air tools or are at least easier to...

Just get one of those portable power packs that I see all over the tik toks these days.

For surface mount I like 4 square deep boxes with quad covers. Gives you plenty of room for the wiring and allows you to put two duplex receptacles on two different circuits if you want.