Recent content by Novicaine

I agree with the people recommending radiant floor heat. For a shop you can't beat it. You can keep it 55 and when you're out there working, it is quite comfortable.

I'm not saying this is right or wrong, just my experience. I live in central Illinois and I only put a plastic vapor barrier down in my current shop, no insulation. I wanted to do insulation, but I didn't have the money or time or know-how (and I worried about bugs and rot in it). I keep the...

What's on the other side of the insulation? Tin? Hopefully something that isn't air tight, right?

I've don't this problem, but I put a vapor barrier down before pouring the concrete... did you or others with this problem? In my old shop I did have this problem (75% sure I didn't put down vapor barrier), so in the summer I just ran a little window AC unit to keep moisture down and as a nice...

DUH!! Today _is_ Sunday, welder4956, you're right.... it was too early in the morning. Well, I'm going canoeing, so don't call, and I'm sure Dad has something tracked down by now. Thanks!!!!

My Dad is pulling a trailer moving my brother's stuff home to Illinois and a bolt broke on the reese hitch mount on his truck. So he needs to drill a new hole, and put some new bolts in. All of the repair shops are closed, and the few that are open don't have a right-angle drill (which he is...

I once built a standard framed 30x40 shop with a block foundation on the side of hill, worked great to handle the slope. I then filled the inside with essentially packed lime. A little pricey, but no regrets. Then at my next house, I built a 40x50 pole barn and used packed road rock to bring...

I'll bite... go on...

The plumbers ran about 60' of 1" black plastic to my shop hooked into a 1/2" line on the house side -- I have the same volume and pressure as in the house, works just fine. I figure I can always hook into bigger in the house if needed, but it's fine.

Well, here's an update a few years later after getting two shop cats: We turned them into outside cats... we're all happier now. The shop got too hairy. I couldn't open the doors on a nice day and risk the cats running out. They tore up seats on snowmobiles, tractors. They knocked stuff off...

I built a pole barn on top of dirt, then had to dig the door footings by hand after the barn was built, then poured concrete, and now have that unsightly wood border touching the ground. The guy building the building said: You should have poured the slab first. I said "I didn't think that was...

I bought a Atlas PV-10P from Greg Smith in Indy and it works just fine for me. It's the 2nd I bought from them ... the first was for my first shop, it was a 9k or the equivalent from back then (~2005). When I build my next shop, I'll probably get my next lift there also. But maybe the...

Here is how I did mine in my old shop... worked pretty well as long as all the tires are about the same size. Just a couple of eye hooks, some chain, and some pipe.

Scroll through this thread: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49557

5/8" would have been smarter. And definitely keep loops under 250', and my pex was spaced every 16", 12" would be better. Again, a miscalculation on my part. So in a perfect world, you'd want 7 loops of 250-ish 5/8" pex. But 5 300' loops of 1/2" do work also. I keep the shop around 60 degrees...