Recent content by wren57

I always get the best advice from this group, so first off let me say thank you to all members. I just added a paver patio to the back of my house. Under the pavers I had the installer run 2" gray conduit from my gas meter to two locations on the patio: a grill and fire pit. Now I'm needing to...

If the garage window didn't face the street, visible to the HOA, I would.

I'm building a home in Alabama that has a 23x32 garage and another 22x12 garage that is 29' away from the larger garage. I'm thinking of putting a 18k BTU unit along the top wall of the main garage and somehow getting the lineset to another air handler for the small garage. I've read that...

lol, it's a design feature. I used my grinder then got the carbide diamond blade for my oscillating tool as suggested. Worked like a charm! Thanks again everyone.

You guys are awesome. I do have a milwaukee multi-tool, will get a masonry attachment. THANKS!

Hi all. I'm changing an exterior light from one with a round base to one with a square base. As such, I need to trim the brick to more of a square, almost all the way up to the mortar line. Should I just use a chisel and punch vertically along the left edge and hope the brick breaks apart? The...

Thanks!

It was a full DIY where he made bases for his 44" USG boxes. Anyone know what I'm talking about or who posted it?

So there's no way (or need) to remove the window frame in any way? I had to do this with my other windows.

My home builder did a poor job caulking around most of my windows, so they’re loud. I was able to go back and properly caulk most of them which reduced 75% of the noise, but can’t figure these out. Is there a way to remove the frame to really get in there, or is my only option to pull this caulk...

I'm in St Louis too. If you want some side work PM me and I'll be happy to hire someone to help me with this, just not paying an electrical company $2k to run a friggin wire. I checked in the conduit, and there are 2 black, 2 white, 1 green and 1 red cable. On either end it feeds into metal...

I'm in MO. I find it hard to believe it's a violation as-is, the house was built in 2019 and is overbuilt in a lot of ways, romex is stapled to joists every 3 feet, etc. I'm not saying it's not to code, but it's just surprising if that's the case. The power conduit may just have 2 circuits on...

Thanks for the responses. Attached is a photo of the detached garage. One is power wire, one is Cat6 cable. The power run to the garage has I believe 3 120v circuits in it now. The conduits are 3/4" which makes me think pulling 10/2 is going to be difficult. At this point I guess I just run the...

This is what I'm referring to: Wiring up a mini-split for my garage this weekend and am a bit stumped. The attached photo is what I have going on outside. Main breaker box has plenty of spaces available, it feeds the subpanel in the basement 25' away which then spits out wires that go into...

Thanks a lot for all the input guys! I'm doing sheetrock on the ceiling with R30 9" batts above that. Cutting long thin strips of leftover R13 to sit on top of the joists to fill in those gaps. I don't really have a soffit to put a vent on. There is no roof overhang, it just gets to the edge...