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I’ve ordered my cabinet doors from Distinctive Door Design in Princeton, MN on many occasion. Their website is www.distinctivedoordesigns.com.

I have a 42-inch Panasonic plasma flatscreen in which I recycled from the family room. Have WiFi and Directv in the garage for commercial-free music, baseball & hockey games and the occasional movie. Will post pictures.

Go big Red! Niece just finished up her third year at UNL. Subscribed and following!

ShhTed, I’ll be following your thread very closely. I’m in the same boat and looking to not only insulate, but sheetrock the interior of my 20 x 30 attached garage. I’m thinking seriously of using 8-inch tongue and groove, but not entirely sure if local code will allow me to. May have to...

BK: I have 25-years experience in aeroacoustics (the combined science of aerodynamics and acoustics) with a heavy emphasis on architectural/interior acoustics. If you’d like, PM me and we can exchange telephone numbers and I can assist you. Climb.On is correct in that the devil is really in...

Okay, I’ll be the first. What’s inside?

That’s exactly how my fireplace hearth is built!

Love it! Soldier on as we’re all behind you applauding!

The first picture is of the left-hand side of the garage, with the finished wall of the house. The second picture is of the right-hand side of the garage with the unfinished wall. Both sides of the garage have a 2x8 lagged directly into the wall studs, 16-inches on center. The 2x6 is nailed...

With the exception of one wall, everything is completely open. Plans are in the works to insulate and Sheetrock the garage this summer. On both the left-side and right-side of the garage, the contractor lagged a 2x8 directly into the wall studs, 16-inches on center. A 2x6 nailed directly into...

About 3-years ago, I worked with a contractor on converting the upper part of my garage entirely into storage. The solution was to sister in 2” x 12” x 20-foot Microllam LVL beams to the original 2” x 6” trusses. We used an LVL beam at every truss to carry the load across the 19-foot width of...

Re: The Concrete might be Underground but I'm not. Welcome back, LLWillysfan! I, much like the others, have followed your home build since the first day of your project. We’re all anticipating seeing pictures of the finished home!

As opposed to sound dampening, what you’re looking for is sound isolation. The most economical way to isolate noise from the garage from transmitting into the space above is to insulate with fiberglass batt and utilize two each layers of 5/8-inch Sheetrock. Tape and mud the first layer of...

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If you have a Graingers nearby, get to the Will Call desk and ask for a catalog. In the back of the catalog, there are sizing guidelines as to how many air changes per minute are required for a particular space. In the Air Changes Recommended for Various Areas, garages require 5 to 10 minutes...