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House has a 8 x 18 room under the porch. Hollow core planks with EPDM membrane and concrete porch poured over that. No leakage from outside but we get some moisture on the ceiling in the cold winter months from condensation. Wanting to insulate just the ceiling and 12-18" down the walls to...

Doing some painting of walls, floor epoxy, and generally sprucing up the place. Would like to hide these wires. The thermostat wires go into the basement of the connected house for control of floor heat. The wall has blown in insulation. I have one of those 4' flexible drill bits for going...

Redoing the garage and wondering what to do on the walls. It's insulated with drywall so things would need to fasten to studs or some sort of paneling. I have done a bit of both and some fixed position brackets in the past. It's not like I am going to change things up much so I don't really...

Have a heavy bench that the top is beat up - corners especially so needs more than just a new sheet on top. 30" x 60". Thinking a solid core door with some sort of replaceable top sheet would be sturdy and fairly cheap to do. Not planning to do anything too abusive on it. Any suggestions?

Have this in a couple places on the foundation. Think it is in places the water runs so probably got some road salt in the winter. Could that be the cause? The rest of the foundation is solid. What to do about it? I'm having the floors epoxy coated and and option is to also do the stub...

Are there good options for ballast bypass bulbs for small fixtures?

Getting a 16' pod for temp storage while the garage floor is flaked. We have the room and no issues with HOA and such. Putting the door closest to the garage would make the door end about 5-6" higher than the other end. Wondering how the doors are and how likely I am to get water inside. I...

Getting quotes and 2 of the 3 said there is no reliability issue to extend the coating the few inches beyond the OHDs. They all said they often stop the epoxy/flake just inside the door. At least one said just regular sealer on the few inches remaining. The one that said moisture would try to...

Have read up some on this type flooring and still have a few questions. We had our detached "shop" building done a few years ago but I wasn't very happy with it. The guy power washed the floor and only waited less than 24 hours as I recall to put down the epoxy and I had a number of small...

Looking into temporary storage for the stuff in a 3 car garage so the floor can be coated. Looks like there are several companies that do pods. I did a quick look at U-haul. Looks like they have one size portable container a little over 4 x 8 ft. 4 of them with delivery for a month is $400...

Have 1st gen Hardie siding on the house and garage. Installed in 2004. I think they changed their process and improved it somewhat since then. Seems like the product isn't very solid inside - kind of powdery and probably absorb moisture. So is there something I could put on the spots where...

Looking for hardware to turn on a circ pump for about a minute when a button is pressed. Three wireless push buttons near sinks with any of them activating the pump. Anyone done something like this that can recommend hardware? Doing this for a friend so a simple solution that doesn't involve...

Looking at using a Leviton 3033 switch with #10 wire. One of the wires will be stranded cord (SJOOW). I didn't see any notes on the data sheets about type of wire so thinking stranded is ok. This has clamps not back stabs. Looks like I need a box about 27 cu. in. so may need to go to a dual...

Have this panel in an RV. The breakers are Homeline and I checked them against regular residential breakers to make sure they are the same. Thinking of putting a second power inlet on the trailer tongue so I could connect it to the inverter connection in the pickup bed while towing. The...

Putting a tv on the wall and don't want the cords hanging down. For receptacle I can put a box above and existing box that is low and fish romex so I think I'm good there. Then using some box covers that have a bell shaped opening pointing down for low voltage (HDMI, USB, etc. Recalling there...

This is a bench unit bought in the early 1990s. Lowest speed is 480. Was thinking of using a fly cutter but it's rated for something like 350 max. I see a bunch of options for older units but didn't find anything on this one. The belt cover doesn't have a hole where the hollow post is but...

I have this valve in my water system that has a very slow leak around the stem. It isn't wet but has some rust as can be seen. It also leaks very slowly into the downstream side when off. I see a hex under the handle that looks like a packing compression nut (I guess nut is the proper term?)...

I have a box for my generator inlet near my OHD (inside so protected from weather. It had a smaller connector but want to install a L14-30P inlet. It doesn't appear anyone makes off the shelf plate for that but it wouldn't be too hard to punch holes in a box cover plate. Just wondering what...

Just got an F150 hybrid with 7.2 kW inverter. It can be set to run the inverter off the battery with the engine starting as needed to keep the battery charged. We plan to use it with our RV trailer and also for the house during outages. In looking on the web I see postings that the truck...

Picked up a 24x 30 Broan stainless backsplash at the big box store and needed to cut it into a couple smaller pieces for the RV stove. Local maker space has the HF 3 in 1 so figured it would be easy to use that. A couple hours of fiddling, flipping the blades over for the unused edge...