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Hey there fine folks, I'm pouring my pad in a few weeks and I have a question. The pad will extend from the garage entrance four feet in the the front with a slight slope to it. Do I need to dig an extended footer for the front edge of the pad as it adjoins a gravel drive? The pad will be...

Hey Folks, Does anyone know of an easy to use drafting program I can use to draw plans and elevations? I drew all my plans out for my building permit but a buddy of mine really likes my garage/shop and he wants me to do the same for him. In return he gave me a bunch of equipment he was getting...

Hey Guys & Gals, Which is the better 2-post lift for car restoration work, Dannmar D-10/CX 2-Post Car Lift or BendPak XPR-10A Asymmetrical 2 Post Car Lift in your experience? I'm working on sports cars that weigh less than 2500 lbs. I respect the forum members' opinions and Garage Equipment...

Hey folks, If my calculations are correct I can safely put up to 30 54Watt LED fixtures on a 15AMP circuit. Does this compute with you folks? NCtim

Before I pour my 4" pad, I'd like to put deep footers for the lift. My garage is 24 feet deep, front-back. Where would you suggest I place the footings? I'm primarily working on my sports cars which weigh 1,900-2,200 lbs. and no longer than 13 feet. NCtim

Howdy Folks, I'm finally out of the ground and framing my second story. I have an electrician coming to run a new feed for my bathroom remodel so I'd thought I'd get him to hook up the feed to my sub-panel in the garage. Garage is 24 x 28, 2-stories (storage/possible apartment above), one...

I'm going to pour my garage slab this spring and it will have pex laid out for radiant slab heat. My house is passive solar and it works extremely well even though it was a homemade solution that I engineered in the 1980s. I worked at The Mother Earth News and used my slack time to read almost...

Hey Folks, Sorry if this has been addressed five hundred times. I have limited bandwidth and I've used up quite a bit trying to delve into this. Question: How do you guys get your grout joints so smooth that you can drag welding tables, floor jacks, engine stands, etc. over them and not chip...

Hey there, I live on a mountainside in Western NC. Pretty rocky terrain and fairly steep. When I built my house I had underground service run to the house from a pole about 100 yds away. My service panel is 200A (which was adequate in the late '80s) but is filled up with only 4 open breaker...

Hey there, I discovered this by way of http://www.britishv8.org/ I landed on Zach's Red Door Z Garage build. How apropos! This is THE garage I've been trying to build for the last fourteen years. Back story; My wife and I built our own house on a mountainside near Asheville, NC. I dug the...

Hey there fine folks, I just followed a thread over here from BritishV8.com. It came up as Zach's red door Z Garage and that's almost exactly what I've been trying to pull the trigger on for three years. (I'll get my intro into the proper forum soon and explain all that.) My Question is: Can I...