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Ok, I finally got my shop almost finished and I told the neighbor I would help him on his car. It was 40 outside, windy and raining. Having the car inside at 70 degrees and no wind Awesome! Putting the car up on the lift instead of laying on your back underneath Awesome! Draining the oil...

Does armorall really do any good as far as helping vinyl to not crack or does it just make it look shinny and make you feel better? Reb

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I am about to drill the holes for my MaxJax and wanted to know how to miss the rebar in the floor. With my luck, I will start drilling right where two pieces of rebar hit so that 4 of the five holes will be centered on a piece of rebar. If you hit a piece, can you drill the rebar out with a...

I have a new Devoe floor with clear coat. I put down drop cloths before I painted the walls but some got through holes in the drop cloth. What is a good way to get the latex paint off of the epoxy floor? I was thinking scotch brite and mineral spirits. Any other ideas that won't hurt the...

Here is the deal. I just finished laying my floor so I have no use for the spiked shoes for a long time I hope. I will give them to anyone who wants them for just the postage. I am in Fort Worth so I think the most for Priority Mail will be $10.60. ( To Seattle , Wa ). The deal is that when you...

I was talking to the Devoe Tech guy and mentioned that I need to get some spike shoes to help me spread the flakes around. He told me not to as Devoe 244 is not self leveling. The holes will just stay and allow water to enter. He told me just to do smaller sections that I could throw the flakes...

The wife wants me to look into building a sliding gate for the shop instead of a swinging one. I have looked on the internet but do find much help in how to get a 7 foot privacy gate to work. Any one have one out there with some pictures??? Is there a good site to explain how to build one that...

I will be running my electircal in EMC. One conduit will contain more than one circuit. Can the two circuits share a common ground wire or do I need to run a separate ground for each circuit???? Reb

They will be pouring the slab for my shop soon and I am working with the inspector as I will be doing my own electrical. He suggested to me to do a Ufer ground instead of driving in rods. He told me to get 20 feet of #4 stranded copper and tie it to the re-bar and turn one end up through the...

I am going to have a new meter installed on my new metal building. Question is, how do most people attach the meter base and connection pole to the metal building. Do you use some kind of strap to go around one of the vertical poles?? Is just tying the box to the upright enough or do I also need...

Ok I am going to run the wires for my sub panel in the new shop from the house. To get to the shop I will have to run the wires from one end of the house to the other and then down and buried to the shop. The length will be about 110'. In the attic, there will have to be multiple bends in the...

I would like some details I have 2" pvc run from the shop to the house. I need to pierce a brick wall to get to the panel in the garage. Surely you do not pierce the brick wall with a 2" hole and then try to connect that up to the panel in the garage. How do you get it to the panel. I will be...

I am just starting to plan out my wiring for my new shop. This is a question on the best way to run the wires for a three way switch in conduit. By door one, there will be one box with 3 three way switches. ( one for half the lights in the shop, one for the other half of the lights and one for...

I will be putting up a metal garage bldg. about 50 feet from my house. Is it OK to use the same buried conduit to carry the power along with an Ethernet cable and a phone line??? If so, how do you get the Ethernet and phone lines in the conduit? Do you just drill a hole in the conduit and then...