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So it only took a year but this happened today.

Just as I came home from work, my electrician was finishing up wiring up my garage and tying it into the house. Immediately paid him and hauled *** to Lowes to get plug-in shop lights. Ecstatic with the result. Been in the house and year, and now I finally have lights so I can see what I'm...

So line the hole with best landscape cloth I can get. The fill the barrel, then backfill the whole with rocks, and then cover with dirt? Thank you, just what I was looking for.

I have a fair amount of clay. But oddly enough, it drains pretty well. I decided to go ahead and use the whole 55 gallon drum. I just finished digging a 5.5' hole about 2 hours ago and finished the 15' trench a couple minutes ago. Next things, rocks. I've read to wrap the barrel in permeable...

So I'm putting a small deep sink in my garage, just for washing my hands, basically. I'm gonna use a dry well for the drain. My question is, how big does the drum for the dry well have to be? I have a 55 gallon plastic drum to use but my thought was since it's just one sink, could I cut the...

What would the timer do? Does it let me set it up to only heat the water during certain hours? And how hard is it to install a timer? Are there generic, fits-all timers? This the water heater I ordered...

I found a Bosch 4 gallon on Amazon last night for cheaper than a 2.5 gallon so I'm gonna give that a try.

So just for washing my hands, maybe cleaning a part of something, would a 3 gallon hot water tank suffice? I'm thinking I'd rather have the truly instant hot water of a tank vs the 10 seconds later instant hot water of a tankless. Plus I think I'd be more comfortable working a tank if I have to...

So I'm having electricity and water run out to my garage. Plumbing wise, Im just gonna pull off the house to the garage with 1/2" pex. It's only feeding a small deep sink. So it brings up the question, what sort of set up do y'all use for hot water in your detached garages. I'm planning on using...

Started assembling my AR lower, but I had to stop because my trigger and buffer assembly haven't arrived yet.

Mounted up my Yost 460 last night. It'd been just sitting on my bench since last Wednesday. Had to add some blocking underneath the surface of my bench to have something for the bolts holding the vise to grab onto. And since the bench was cantilevered back to the wall, I had to put in a leg...

My Yost 460 all mounted up, braced and supported.

Armstrong 11-992 3/8" ratchet. (Not pictured: Brownell's AR-15 vise block)

My Yost 460 6" vise and my Tekton soft face mallet with interchangeable faces came in today. Gotta do some reinforcement to the workbench on the underside before I mount the vise though. It's just plywood.

Flathead screws, for one. Always seem to walk themselves off the screw, especially if using a drill. There's some nice marks on a door in my house where the hinge was held on with flathead screws. Lockwire pliers. Nothing ***** worse than lockwire. Chances are it's in a tight little spot (I...

Tekton 18 piece Punch Set. Glad to see "USA" on the side of every punch.

Husqvarna 440, the newest toy.

Yeah, it ain't perfect, but it's a project in itself, to make it a nice place for other projects.

I just want it to look finished, some form of walls up and some type of ceiling, and level out and fill in that dirt space with either concrete, or even pavers like 920 said, but I'm wondering how difficult it might be to roll a tool cart across that.

I haven't really decided yet. The driveway stops about 6 feet in front of the garage doors and then turns behind the house, I'm considering saving up, then ripping out that wood floor, and pour concrete from the back of the garage all the way to where the driveway stops. But that'll probably be...