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Hi, GJ has never steered me wrong before, so here goes: 26x28 detached, unfinished garage. HIP roof. Soffit and fascia is in need of repair - 1x6 pine (fascia) and 3/8" non vented plywood (soffit) is bad. Paint is peeling off, in some areas soffit has started to detach, as is fascia. I took...

Hi, I have an existing detached garage, with wiring, but done poorly. I'm at the onset of planning, and i got great answers last time so I'm hoping someone will be gracious again. NEC 2014 is what I'm looking at for my area. I am looking at replacing all of the branches coming from this...

I'm wading into an overhaul of how the electric is distributed in my 2.5 car detached garage. There's an old wall furnace in the garage from when we bought the place, that I turned off the natural gas to it a long time ago because I considered it to be a fire hazard (furnace is very old...

I'm hoping to glean some information from people who know better than I. My garage is a 2.5 car garage, looks to have been built in the 60's. Its got a hip style roof, and when I look inside I wonder if what I'm seeing can be right. There area total of 4 joists. The builder used 22' 2x6...

Hopin the garage types can help me out. What would you call a bolt that looks like this? The page refers to it as an eye bolt but I'm not finding any other pages that have eye bolts with the eye no larger than the width of the bolt itself....

I've been trying to figure out the best way to proceed with repairing a crack in my garage floor. Like any crack it varies in width, and at widest its about 5/8" and at its thinnest its hairline. As far as I can tell it goes all the way through, so its more than 2" deep. I'm in northern IL to...

I can post some pictures up if necessary but I thought I'd start with words and see if someone can help. I've got a 2.5 car detached garage on a concrete slab with wood construction (siding is aluminum i think). I don't think the previous owner went too far out of his way to do anything...