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I'm adding a 3 car garage to the front of my existing 2 car garage. The 2 car portion becomes my shop. The 3 car addition will be used strictly to park my daily drivers. The question is ...do I need to add a drain to the new addtion or can I get by with just having the floor slope towards the...

My new home has a two car garage. I'm turning it into my shop by adding a 3 car garage in front of the existing two car garage. The new three car will be used strictly for parking three cars side by side. My current plan is to go with a 16' wide and a 9' wide garage door. Adding two foot...

My 25 year old Campbell Hausfeld 220V - 30 gallon compressor seems to be producing reduced pressure. Last night it would barely turn my air ratchet. I've done virtually zero maintenance on the unit the whole time I've owned it. (I vaguely remember changing oil a decade ago). The pressure...

I keep my pop up camper and my 16" open deck car trailer in my pole barn. Neither gets used more than a handful of times / year. I'm trying to come up with a way to store the pop up on top of the car trailer thus freeing up a ton of floor space in the barn. I'm thinking of building some...

Does anyone have any good or bad experience with fabric covered wall panels? My wife has this idea that she wants 'soft walls' in the basement rather than drywall. I've seen some modular fabric covered wall info on the web. I'm curious if anyone can give me the pluses or minuses based on real...

I bought a home that will remain unoccupied for a year while I renovate it. It has a 2009 gas fired hot water tank. The tank has a 'vacation' setting that I assume will save money. Still I prefer to shut it down for the year. What do I need to do? Shut off the gas & disable to power. What...

Do the Mr. Heater gas heaters have a pilot light that runs all the time or do they use an ignitor that will start up on demand? Thanks, Spud

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I'm in the process of buying a ranch style home with a two car garage. She-who-must-be-obeyed says I can turn the exisiting two car into my shop by adding a new garage our in front of the current garage. The current garage faces the street. The new garage additon will continue the existing...

I'm in the process of buying a house with a 25 x 25 out building. The structure has a dirt floor / gravel floor. It's made of a pole barn type construction. Can anyone give me a guess at the approximate cost to a dig out the current dirt & gravel and then pour a concrete floor. I plan to use...

Does anyone have any photos of a good way to store scraps of wood? I'm talking miscellaneous partial pieces of 4 x 8 sheets. Random lengths of 2 x 4 or 2 x 2's etc. Thanks, Spud

I am intrigued about 'mechanics gloves'. I am curious to hear when you wear them and how long they last and how much 'feel' you have with them. Are they really worth the cost? I'm a brown jersey cloth glove user myself. When the they wear out I toss them. When they get greasy, I toss them. You...

A big thunderstorm tore some shingles off the roof of my shed. They apparently went to Kansas to look for Dorothy because they are nowhere to be found. Does anyone have any ideas how I can go about buying just a couple of shingles rather than an entire square? Spud

I have a 20+ year old Sears 2.5 ton floor jack that has been a real workhouse for me. Like a knuckle head I inadvertently set down my 4" grinder, still spinning, and put a nick in the chromed pump piston. Now it leaks fluid when I pump the jack (piston) up and down. I removed the piston and...