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A woman that has got to know my wife well in political organizing--and who knew me a little--decided to donate her late husband's tools to me. This was partly because of the halo effect from my wife, but also because she knows that I'm active on the Board (and builds) of our local Habitat and...

and I thought it was an interesting technique that would work for a shed or small garage. Footings and modified post and beam style... Article here: https://www.dwell.com/article/herself-film-free-diy-house-plans-irish-vernacular-fb7bd6e6 Free plans (metric though) here...

Doing some energy testing and sealing in our '60s modern, and decided that the can lights have to go. They are leaking air, and have no insulation around or above them. These are the old cans very tall for the long neck bulbs, and with gyroscopic adjustments inside the cans to set the light...

We are trying to address air leakage in our 60's modern, and we have single pane windows that were site installed, but with settling etc, are no longer sitting deep enough in slots that were created to hold the glass. So air leakage, and actual movement/rattling of the glass in big storms. The...

We're trying to figure out how to upgrade to get more comfort in our long low rambling modern house. It's all one floor with crawl space, currently heated with not one but two gas fired hot air furnaces, with uninsulated duct work through the crawl space. Furnaces are functioning but EOL (80%...

Install Garage Door with Low headroom Track--Modifications? I have posted a long time ago about my crazy garage door project--and I am finally back on it after living with doors tacked in place for quite a while now. My problem--this house was built with a very high door to fit with the 60s...

Still thinking about doing what the architect originally drew--he had stone insets under each of the large windows. I was planning on replacing sliders with windows in the bedrooms (energy reasons), and thought it might be cool to do cultured stone under the windows. The siding is vertical...

I'm not doing large projects as much, so I have a small Rigid for jobsite stuff--but I want to use a quieter shop vac with a dust deputy for woodshop work, and started to think quiet would be nice. (The now dead big Rigid screamed like a banshee, probably from years of drywall dust--plus it...

My single car garage (with the non-operational doors) is the wood shop. Car work takes place outside on the driveway. I have managed for quite a few years using an old luggable top handle tool box, but would like a recommendation for a box with wheels, small enough to maneuver out a standard...

Not a garage, but a house project. Our house has a post and beam center with a shallow pitched roof, flanked by two flat roof sections. Both flat sections are in tough shape; one was reroofed (badly) before we moved in, and it is ponding water (and now leaking in one spot), the other was...

Regional variation in Tractor Supply Black Friday pricing on log splitter? I found this out by accident, after someone posted on another forum that Tractor Supply had their Country Line 25T splitter on sale in their current Fall Sale for $799. I went to check our local store (I have been...

Seems a simple thing, but new to me... How do I calculate the angles to make a cut on the end of this railing, to have it level with the landing. (Plan is to biscuit join the two pieces together.) I should be able to figure this out, but I keep walking by this, and have had no good ideas...

Thinking about using a granite offcut that I have and cantilevering it. (no brackets below). I've seen versions of this on commercial stone jobs--they would edge drill for bar stock, epoxy in bars, and then do the same on concrete. I'm thinking about trying something like this, but attached to...

We had some good rains this past week, and I was reminded that I get some water leaking from the exposed edge of the slab. Short version: the side where I get the leaks in used to be a wall, which was cut out to install a second door, so it runs across the high side of the sloped slab. I...

Next project--get the garden/outdoor tools and equipment consolidated into a permanent structure and see if one temporary tent can be emptied. Our local code lets us only do a 10x10 without permits; I have staked out an 8x12. Shed design will be a shed roof style to match the look of the house...

Today (4/10/19) a number of the Fleximounts garage organizer pieces are Deal of the Day--about a third off, like this one for $126: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0194R5BSA/?tag=atomicindus08-20 There are shelves as well.

One of these questions that is hard to find an answer to--I have rigid insulation to face the inside walls of my crawl. I also have several places where I have run NM for new circuits and it is stapled to the plates of the walls (which I want to run the insulation over), then insulate the joist...

My brother sent me a link to a youtube video for a utility building built out of two shipping containers. The cool thing is that they show up with prefabbed sections etc so they can finish onsite pretty quickly. (I don't think this has been posted before--a quick search turned up this old...

Have some interior 'windows' /fill panels to make, and wondered if the hive mind can point me at a good online supplier with decent prices? I need a half dozen or so pieces 48+" x 12" or so...

Tried to search, but could not find specifics. I still have my original Milwaukee 18v Nicad set (small circ saw, swazall, drill) and have stopped using it as the batteries finally succumbed. (Tried getting the batteries rebuilt--with no success--they did not hold their charge, crapped out pretty...