Recent content by SD_R/T

Agree with others: This could be awesome! It's gonna be a ton of work but every hard hour will be worth it when you've saved that old garage.

Anybody had any luck buying the wall cabinets recently? I was ready to pull the trigger and get a handful of them but they don't seem to be available on Sam's Club website anymore: http://www.samsclub.com/sams/ultra-heavy-duty-commercial-wall-cabinet/177497.ip?zipSearch=null&_requestid=279842...

Subscribed. Great job on saving this old structure. Looking forward to watching it come back to life.

Good point. Any reservations about letting the old stucco breathe? I've heard stories of paint blistering and accelerated underlayment deterioration due to sealing up the old stucco (no direct experience, mind you). Great looking deck, btw!

Yep. Not saying it's across the board, but this is a pretty common way for municipalities to collect sewer fees. They can't really measure how much is going 'out', but they can measure what's going 'in' (at the meter). Then they make assumptions on what's going out based on what's going in by...

Is this a new problem? Or has it always been this way? If the sink is on an island then I'm guessing the venting was done with one of those 'air admittance' valves (my terminology may be slightly off). Do you see any evidene of this? Perhaps it is faulty. The washing machine also dumps a LOT...

4,200 SF is bigger than my whole lot! :eyecrazy:

X2. Any pics of the construction? That is a fine looking workbench!

Rickyboy, Update: Success! Used the Dewalt masonry blade on my 'backup' circular saw (Skil 10amp) and the Dewalt blade made short work of the old, hard stucco. I'm hesitant to say it went through 'like butter', but it had a much easier time of it than I had expected. I had to use the angle...

Good point! Here in San Diego, the city wanted something like $400 just to permit a tankless water heater installation. Yikes :scared:

Unless of course, you have gas appliances. Then you'd just need 120v service. But then you'd also need to have a gas line nearby. As stated....it can all be done. A lot of it depends on where in the house you want to put it and what services are nearby. The waste line seems like potentially...

As an individual, there is not really anything you can do to help declutter the existing mess. The best thing to do is to try to get them professional therapy and 'offer' to help them through the process. It is a serious condition that hasn't got this far (7 garages!) because a 'simple' solution...

As you found out, there are a bunch of different factors that go into designing a system. Any guy who makes a generalization like that should be ignored immediately. Kudos to you for seeing through the BS. (That being said, the general rule of keeping water speed under 5ft/second IS something...

Dude, have you seen my 5-3/8" socket?

Keep us posted on how it goes! Cutting out a doorway in my stucco garage is on my radar, so I am interested in others' experience. Alas my stucco is old (1920's) and it is hard as a rock, so I'm not looking forward to it. :willy_nil I've got a couple masonry wheels (home depot) for the angle...