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Re: what did you do in your garage today? Um...well over the last few days, I've accomplished a lot in the garage. Wednesday night, I started "de-winterizing" my Snapper-pro walk behind mower to get ready to start mowing for the season. I put a new set of tires on the drive wheels. the old...

What size and type are your floor joists? what's the joist spacing? What's the length of the unsupported span (length between supporting walls underneath)? To give you an example: I recently remodeled my girlfriend's bathroom and we put down 12x12 porcelain tile on the floor. She had 3/4...

I have a set of rhino ramps that I think I've had for about 10 years now. They work great. The only thing I don't like is they slip a little on a smooth concrete floor. I don't use them much anymore because I drive a lifted Tacoma so I can do oil changes and stuff without having to jack it up...

As others said. Rip it up and start over. Go check out the John Bridge tile forums and use their deflecto calculator to determine if your subfloor is sufficient. There is a wealth of knowledge over there! Thicker backer board isnt going to solve it either. The subfloor needs to be sufficent...

Look around and find a place that might be little further out but has the same commute timewise to work. To give you an example, my old house was a little over 3 miles from my work and it took me 15-20 minutes to get to and from work due to traffic. I bought a house about 17 miles north up the...

Same thing happened to me on Saturday, except I was welding. I felt some heat around my ankle, flipped up my welding mask and looked down and the bottom of my blue jeans were on fire. Oops :lol:

I've done that before. I was working in the garage grinding something with the grinder in the winter wearing a hoodie. My hoodie now has a nice big hole torn out of the front of it.

My house has a vapor barrier under the slab. Our GA red clay soils don't drain very well. I was talking to the superintendant of our subdivision (new construction) a few weeks ago and he said the vapor barrier is required by code here in GA. They use a vapor barrier, mesh, rebar, and fiber in...

I've had a set of those for over 10 years. I've compressed more springs than I can count with them and I've never had a problem, nor have I been worried they would break. Just exercise caution as you would with anything with that much potential energy. Never point it at yourself. I always point...

Very Nice! So you're up in the Trenton area?

Looks good Stump. Good to see another Expedition Portal (SES) member on here.

When my Dremel took a dive a few years ago, I just bought a Black & Decker brand rotary tool from HD. It was significantly cheaper and I can still use all my Dremel bits for it. The only thing I really use it for is finish sharpening (smooth it over after the angle grinder) of lawnmower blades...

In regards to Craftsman stuff. I stopped by my local Ace Hardware the other day to pick up a few things and they are now selling Craftsman tools. They had a whole section of the store dedicated to it. The guy also said they will do warranty exchanges as well.

Well yes, aside from a box of screws. a 4x8 sheet of OSB is pretty cheap.

OSB would be your cheapest option

This is just my opinion and logic but I like to attach the sides to the top and bottom pieces (Think stile and rail). I feel like the screws will have more strength and don't run the risk of getting pulled out by the downward weight of anything in the cabinet. When I build a cabinet, I glue...

I almost exclusively only use the adjustable "euro style" hinges. It helps get the gaps/reveals perfect. You can buy them for both face frame, and frameless cabinets. You can also choose different overlay widths. One thing I forgot to mention is I like to cut my backer panel dimensions about...

One tip for future assembly. Well two tips... First, Make sure your cuts are EXACT for parallel pieces. I.e. your top and bottom pieces should be exactly the same length. Otherwise you'll end up out of square. Cut your boards together if you have to. Second, One thing I do when building...

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Haha good call on the awg. fixed. Come to think of it, I think my angled finish nailer is actually a 15ga. Roofing gun is next on the list. Whenever I need to do some sort of roofing, I'll buy one. All my stuff is Hitachi, but I also have a Paslode framing nailer but it's currently broken, i...