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So, I have a 3 car garage. Bay 3 is my home gym. Something in the garage is giving me nausea, fatigue, weakness that lasts for hours. This can come on as soon as 10 minutes into my gym program. The thing is, I can't figure out what the hell is doing it. There's no particular odor in the...

ust installed the MyQ internet gateway in my garage. I also have an overhead light which is attached to a (noname) motion sensing light switch. This switch has been great as long as I've had it. The problem is, every 10 minutes on the dot, something triggers the motion sensing light switch...

The setup: 3 car garage Finished walls and ceiling. North facing. I'm relatively sure the walls/ceiling are insulated, as they don't really get that hot. Garage door is NOT insulated, but is north facing and almost always shadowed. It still gets toasty in there, by 5pm its 92 inside if it's...

Dropped a couple bucks on a new HVAC. It's a bit bigger. The gas line to the furnace sticks out in front of hte water heater. It's 20" to the wall. Just ahead of it is the incoming water line to the WH. Between the two, it's 18" Water heater is 22" wide...

I've been through a bunch now. Once I ask them to pull a permit, they get sketchy. The first one dragged on getting a quote over a week, after I asked for a permit, then came up with excuses as to why he can't do the work on the agreed on date(s.) This was an electrician recommended by family...

I moved. New place has a crummy old chain drive opener. I had a really nice belt drive unit installed in the old place. Swap looks straightforward. Both use a single pair for all wiring, so I just have to find positive and negative. Easy peasy. But the belt/chain... Are these cut to fit on...

I have 2 wall cabinets, 2 base, worktop, and large standing cabinet. I'm a little concerned about moving them for a few reasons: The drawers kind of **** and dont come all hte way out. The coating on them shrinks and peels when it gets warm/hit with sunlight They break REALLY easily I want to...

So, I'm building a lifting platform. I'm going to use two sheets of 4x8 1/2" plywood as the base, then run a 3/4" 4x8 sheet down the center and rubber on the edges. Total height: 1.25" The problem is the exterior door only has about a half inch of clearance before it runs into the slope of the...

I'm moving soon, and I did my old garage with racedeck. I wonder, do you think it improves home value at all? The floor under it is pretty ugly. The racedeck is a bit busted up where I use a floor jack/jackstands on it, but is overall in pretty nice condition. It'd be a bit more work than I...

Moving into a house with a three car garage. Two spots are for workshop/cars. One spot is going to be a gym (Power rack, barbells, powerlifting stuff) So I'd expect to drop ~500lb barbells on the floor, knock plate stands over/all these things. I have racedeck in my old garage. I'm thinking...

I normally do this sort of thing myself, but I'm moving into a nice new house, and I have no business monkeying around with nice things. I have a 3 car finished garage. (Sheetrock ceiling) I'm having an electrician come out next week to quote me, but I don't want to look like a total a-hole...

Looking at buying a new house. The ceiling is pretty low, but the roof is fairly high. (Non finished.) I need to raise the lowest point to 10-12 feet high. (For building a garage gym.) It's a generously sized 3 car garage. I don't need to raise the entire ceiling. Maybe an 8x8 area. Is...

Lifting range: Ideal: 2.25" - 20" Acceptable: 3" - 19" My current inexpensive floor jack just failed under my kwiklift. Fortunately I had both legs pinned up before I lost it. Aside from making a lot of noise there seems to be no damage done, fortunately. I'm tired of "bargain" jacks but I'm...

I'm going to remove my extension cords stapled to the rafters and replace them with mc cable and install outlets, and plug my lights into the outlets. The problem is the local home improvement stores only sell 5/16 mc cable but only have 3/8 connectors. Can I use the 3/8 connectors with the...

My 3 year old ulti-mate cabinets are delaminating. The laminate appears to have shrunk in several places on the cabinets where it is pulling away from the particle board. This is the biggest problem of course with the worktop. It's already pulled away from the beveled section. I've been trying...

I'm using a kwiklift with a centerlift bridge. My set up is near identical to this: The rear crossmember of the car is used to lift it. It is aluminum and has two ridges across it. So, the ridges have to be spanned. Most people are using a piece of board (2x8) cut to width and jacking from...

I have a 19x23 garage and bike storage is a bit of an issue. I'm tired of dodging around them. Most bike storage I see has the bikes hanging down. I'd rather have them flat up against the trusses. Has anyone done something like that? How did you accomplish it?

I have 4 foundation vents in the garage. 2 behind the water heater, then 2 along the outside wall. The ones on the outside wall do nothing but **** water up, and I've found, rot the hell out of the wood around them. Is there any reason I shouldn't just fill/block them? (Leaving the water...

Hello, About 4 or 5 years ago I bought a small house just before prices plummeted. :shocking: The garage... I got this far... And quit. Now I'm redoing the garage. I had done epoxy before. It held well, even under my kwiklift, but there were so many divots, cracks, and bits I couldn't...