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    New house, new garage, new challenges... I need input!

    Gararge looks too small before you even move into it. With all your stuff mentioned looks like a garage build down the road?
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    Urinals

    For years my dads old shop had an old bathroom sink mounted on the wall with the hose running out the wall and into the ground a few feet into a bucket filled with rock. Never had a bad smell and if if one had to rid themselves of solids you had to go into the house.
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    Big Garage leading to Big Problem with neighbor

    Scooter what kind of city code problems did you face? In my area some people do some things a while down the road after they get final sign off from county or city so they dont have to deal with certain restrictions. Like for example I have known people to build a garage with no utilites then...
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    Another Bad HF Tool Experience

    YOu should oil all air tools before use, its possible they locked up due to no oil. Only HF ait tool I have that I dont like is the 6" palm da sander, its a big azz air hog. I have their air drills cutt off saw and several other tools. If I had to earn a living with my tools i would step up...
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    Cleaned out the garage pulled the car out...pics

    At my previous home I had a 14'x24' single car garage that I worked on my project in and I lived there 5 years. I was amazed at how much stuff I had to move out of there when I moved to my new house just a month ago. All that stuff sure takes up more space than I thought it would in the new...
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    Gotta love those wish I would of paid someone to do it projects....

    I would have built the garage without power, gotten final building sign off. Then down the road dig the trench run the wire and get an electrician buddy to hook it all up,(doing this work on the weekends and nites) and you would be better off . Former co worker went the the same bs as you...
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    Electric Heat vs. Gas Heat...?

    At my old house I had a 14'x24' single car garage and for space reasons I used 2 6' electric base board heaters to heat it. I heated it all winter long last year and it only made about a $30 a month difference on the house electric bill. I set the thermostat at around 40-50 when I wasnt...
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    My New Toy Box

    Pics were taking back in febuary when I did my 2nd walk thru. Home in Iowa is in a little town south of Ames about 12 miles.
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    My New Toy Box

    The New House Well its a 3 bedroom 2 full bath manufactured home. Very roomy almost 1600 sq foot which is almost double of the former house 900 sq foot. Lot is only 69' wide by 120' deep. There is additional empty lots behind it that i may have the option of buying down the road. I want to try...
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    My New Toy Box

    After a very long and screwed up real estate transaction I finally sold my house and just signed the papers for the new house wednesday. This big toy box out back has concrete floor, not the smoothest but fairly level unfinished inside but has a 100 amp sub panel wired up right off the meter...
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    Need some professional advice (structural)

    My old garage was exactly like that when I started rebuilding it. I jacked up each rafter and leveled them the best i could and where there was bad beams I just layed new ones beside them and nailed them together and I then added new bracing as mine didnt have enough, or any at all on most of...
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