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A nice garage is fully insulated with heat, A/C, good lighting and needs to have four post and two post hoist as some maintenance jobs cannot be done easy on 4 post hoists.

This is common problem with older fridge and freezer units, something to do with the frequency they generate on the wire. It does not necessarily mean there is anything faulty with the unit. The solution is ask your electrician to put the fridge in its own seperate wire and circuit breaker.

The lower surface is a nice rough texture ideal for fixing a tile too. What I propose is you make a feature out of the lower recess by installing a strip of ceramic tiles which sit in the recess directly behind the garage door seal ideally quite thick tiles. This would work like a step up so...

Hi, after you line the interior I would mount sheets of perforated wood panel leaving an air gap between so sound waves/air can go through the holes and and expand before making contact with the interior lining. Something like this. https://www.architonic.com/en/products/perforated/0/3240744/1

Fire the contractor, it is just not up to any workmanship standard, the boxing is not even pegged so it would fall over. Remove the mesh and start again with an excavator to re-scrape the site and remove the soft material. Back fill and compact the site, drill rebar in to the existing...

If you disassemble to each part, spray each part with deodorised fish oil then bag up.

Hi, Yes like others said Defiantly go with one large gate and single motor, simplest, cost effective and reliability are my reason. I installed my own sliding gate and chose Centsys D5 Evo which is mains supply to the internal battery charger and then everything else works powered by the 12V...

Hi, From the wireless modem you have run a cat6 Ethernet cable to the closes point in your house to the new shed then connect to an Apple Airport Extreme. This will give you the best dual band wireless wifi that just works and has Apple reliability and also Apple help line if you need free...

Yes installed in my garage in New Zealand great in the winter for some heat so I can work out out there in winter and cooling in the summer is superb. Also use it it cool my classic car down after a drive in summer.

Hi, Not sure if it has been discussed already or no, have you considered a heat pump cloths dryer they dont need a vetnterlatieon duct. Seem like they will all be going in this direction in the future and quite a few brands in the market in New Zealand already, not sure if they are sold in the...

Hi, we use cobalt drills to drill out broken titanium screws and hilocks works well no problems.

I think there is a few problems going on. 1:As stated in post 33, Flashing is required on the out side just above the top of the door to stop water from the wall area above the door running down on to the door panel and on to the door and overloading the draining channels then air pressure...

I have had great success with replacing my tired garage doors with fully insulated ones and that is where I would start. 1- Replace the garage doors with insulated. 2- Install ceiling under the trusses beams with an attic ladder and insulation batts between the trusses. 3- Split heat pump on the...

What can cause an icing issue with my Fujitsu unit is turning the unit on in the morning and having the inside fan on high, with no other heating going in the house. What I do is leave it turned overnight in frosty/snow conditions and have the inside fan on auto and make sure there is some...

Hi, If your truck is manual gearbox the problem will be in the electrical part of the key/ignition switch. If it is Automatic gearbox most likely the problem will still be in the key/ignition switch and or could be the inhibitor switch mounted on the automatic gearbox. Please be very careful...