Recent content by ocanuck

I have never mastered this skill... every time I take a drill bit to the grinder it ends up worse. Drill doctors seem to be marginally effective but I dont own one and my experience with 'em doesn't make me want to buy one. Tips/tricks/favourite vids? What about them farking expensive Cobalt...

Thanks everyone. We're going to watch levels much more closely now. Shouldn't need todo much more watering now anyway if the fall rains would ever show up. The lawn is actually white clover and fall rye, so will be fairly drought tolerant. For a rain water collection system, how many gallons...

New to living on a "small well"... it's 300ft deep with 1.5-2.5 gpm refresh and is considered a good well for the area. We've been using a fair bit of water to try and get a lawn going and twice now I thought we've run out water... I flip the breaker for the well pump and we instantly had...

At least in my locale, you need a permit for everything "permanent" that's over 10sqm (~108sqft). No experience with metal sheds, but for $699 it'd probably be cheaper to put up a poll barn with a sheetmetal roof/siding which I'd think would last longer.

My porch is similar... it has a poured sonotubes and then a regular post base. The slab can be poured around the sonotubes at a latter date.

Yesterday was a big day... my car came home! Someone else was very happy about that...

We've finally moved in and it's a mess! Haven't had any time to get the insulation and poly finished let alone think about drywall. I'm super happy with light output though, this photo was taken at night with only 8 of the 24 bulbs installed. Two loads of gravel and the driveway is reasonable:

I'm also in BC and Rockwool was 50% more expensive at my cost than FG. The markup on FG is huge, so consumers see a small price difference at Home Depot but for builders who aren't paying listed prices, the difference is actually much much bigger. Needless to say, I went fiberglass for my...

Code here would be to build a 1x2 frame around the heater, poly goes behind the heater, gets accoustic sealed to the frame and then your regular full sheet of poly also gets accoustic sealed to the frame with appropriate overlaps.

A minisplit should be sufficient... Size would depend on your climate. Sent from my SM-G935W8 using Tapatalk

We have a Kraus faucet and Kraus apron sink. They're beautiful and the faucet does fine with a 5 gal pressure tank on our well. My only complaint is that it rocks slightly with a granite slab, I'm sure if I put a piece of oak plywood under it, it would be rock solid.

A heat pump and insulate the gym to your local house standards.

Dead bolt, always. If there is a car stored in there that you like, put a lock in the deadbolt too. Lock up your cutting tools if you're really paranoid.

My shop that I'm in progress on is 26x30 and will be laid out like #1. The left bay will be setup for working and the right bay setup for storing the done car and a gym. I might do a MaxJax lift one day. I would rethink being a 3 car shop at 26x36 and have it just be a *big* two car. I regret...

And I paid well under asking! The "my wife will only let me spend...." line works everytime.