Search results

Are you scratch building something or is this a manufactured, purpose built boiler that you are starting with? Done right, it could be a multiple use device. --heat some water --plenty of exercise feeding it wood --activity will keep you warm Whatever you do, be sure you have temperature &...

JMO but I'd go with a 100 amp sub panel in the garage. AC, welders, air compressors, and what if you end up with an electric car? Even a small "local only" job will be easier to live with if you can charge it quickly. Swerving suggestion. Mine is 60 and I'd certainly do it at least 100...

Welcome from Pasadena! How are you holding up to this cold snap? ;)

Is $3000 the estimate to remove it, or just a number you threw out as something you don't want to pay? IMO I'd have it removed. It will be nothing but a headache and a liability the way it is, covered or not. Swerving suggestion.

Use 1" conduit and run a second hot from another breaker. Swerving suggestion. The pull will be easier and you'll have more than enough capacity. Even if you stick with 3 wires, go to 1" conduit.

Went after some termites on a 6 foot ladder. "I can steady myself on the beam and rafters..." I said to myself foolishly. Well, you can until you can't. Part of what got me also saved me. Standing on the very top I tried to steady and reposition the ladder with my feet while hanging on to...

Leave it, it is also the moisture barrier as water will find it's way through stucco.

Ford and Chrysler via NP did this in the late '70s. Ford had the SROD from the top loader 4 speed: Chrysler and GM use the NP440 from the NP/Chrysler A-833/N833. The result is a transmission with a weak OD, and a Grand Canyon gap between 2nd and 3rd. You can find these transmission out...

5 ton AC unit with gas forced air heat, from the registers in (all new ducting) $18,000 and change, done in 4 days during a heat wave with the job starting the day after the old system pronounced dead. I talked to another guy--If I could have waited, he would have been about $16000.

I can tell you from sad personal experience you will regret the 20' depth. Add at least 2', 5 would be better. Swerving suggestion....

I'm a mod on another site--automotive--tons of old accts hijacked. Others there reporting the same on multiple forums. Seems like it dropped off though. Password changed BTW.

Harbor Freight $35 pancake job--slow and loud. I bought 2 at that price and took one back after listening to the first one. Should have kept my Craftsman hotdog.....

My late MIL gave me one for Christmas. It is used infreqently, which is getting to be the case with lots of stuff. But I'll keep it as she was a wonderful person and it reminds me of her generosity. We all miss her so--words so infrequently spoken about a mother-in-law.

When we did our remodel in 2002-2003, we needed individual circuits for refer & freezer @ 20Amp each. I think we did the micro on it's own 20 as well. We have a 100 amp sub panel for the kitchen, family room and iirc a bath--it's full. YMMV but when in doubt, put in more than you think you...

Go bigger, 60A is too small. You may not be thinking this now, but if you end up with any kind of electric vehicle, you will need a 50A circuit to charge it. Ask the man who knows about his 60A garage....... Or at least add another 2" conduit and cap it off if you don't want to go bigger now.

FWIW when we poured our garage, the plumber said he never puts the water under the slab. Too many leaks. He was talking copper not pex so there's that......

I had a sticker stolen from a car. I was told the number on the sticker is not traceable. Doesn't sound right... But, what ya gonna do... That was '85-'86.

Hire a property management company that has a good reputation and doesn't remove all the profit. We have a bunch of apartments and I looked over what they do for us and it can't be beat the prices they charge. With two smaller units it's a question mark but at least you keep the property and...

I feel better now about using the fittings from my dead brother's garage--fittings he must have gotten from his late FIL. They were marked with an "Ole's" tag, a store that folded in about 1986.....

1 inch would be my choice after struggling with 3/4 and undersizing other more important runs.