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Our new property came with a windmill that "works", thiugh its not hooked up to a pump. The vane is operated by a hand crank today, and I'd like to make it so that I can remotely deploy the vane, and retract it when the wind really picks up. I'll soon have 12v lighting nearby, but I haven't yet...

I bought a 15yo home a few months ago, and the garage is heated with a Modine Hot Dawg heater on propane. The drywall is filthy, with black stains around the top of the walls and ceiling, as shown in the photo. Are these likely to be from the heater? If so, can these heaters be made to run...

My new-to-me shop is a Morton building with corrugated metal interior walls. I've come to hate them, mostly because of the difficulty mounting anything on them - cabinets, hanging ladders, even a basic shelf has a 3/4" void behind it that has to be worked around to keep things from falling down...

Does the venting on this direct vent furnace look right? I've had direct vent water heaters vented horizontally like this, and got no moisture bleeding over into the intake side, as is obviously happening here. Mark Sent from my SM-G935V using Tapatalk

We are closing this week on a home with a roughly 43x35x10 pole barn (Morton building), that I'll use to store and work on vehicles. It's well insulated (though I don't know how), with metal walls and a perforated metal ceiling. I've had a really, really nice garage (that you guys helped me...

UPDATE 1/9/20 - We are now on the market at https://matrix.recolorado.com/Matrix/Public/Portal.aspx?k=1322237XLKF3&p=DE-189761552-73. If you're looking for a home in Colorado, and you and your family like a nice home and neighborhood, and you want a "dream garage", our property is one you'll...

I've got a bunch of the Lithonia 4 x 4' T8 light fixtures in my garage. On one of them, I noticed a few months ago some of the bulbs were flickering lightly. Then two of them stopped lighting, not a third has stopped. Is that just the sign of the ballast going bad? Or should I be looking at...

Let's see some creative, or even just decent, bike rack storage ideas. I have a couple of them like these two and they just sit around taking up floor space. I've thought of hanging them on the wall but they stick out a lot. How do you guys store them? Mark

Anybody tried this stuff on a garage floor? It's supposed to combine the best attributes of cement (easy installation) and epoxy (doesn't stain) grout. There's a really long thread about it at johnbridge.com but, of course, no garage experiences there. Mark

The DogHouse - Looks to be getting a new tile floor I've never posted any sort of "build thread", but I'm going to need so much help on this, now is no time for pride... I'll keep this thread updated, so you'll either see a successful install, or a well documented failure. Thanks to the many...

After stalling and over-thinking for a long time, I'm finally hoping to get my tile floor done this winter. Before I do that though, I have a couple of drain issues that I'd like to fix as part of this project, and I need the forum's help. The garage is a 450sf 2-car and a 1000sf 3-car/shop...

There's a lot of discussion about tile prices here, but not a lot about the other costs of installing a porcelain or ceramic tile floor. I sat down tonight to figure it out, and am suffering from a bit of sticker shock. Can you guys who've done this tell me if I've made a mistake? I am...

I want to turn a roughly 11x11 bedroom into a home gym. The room has nearly brand new carpet in it, which I'd rather not rip up. What flooring could I lay over it that could be removed later without staining or elsewise ruining the carpet, and would work well as a floor for exercise machines...

This seems like a timely question... What is the minimum slab temperature for porcelain tile installation? Will the popular flexbond thinset work well with a cold slab? I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on tile (yes, my trigger finger is twitching, and I'm sweating profusely), which means...

I have the opportunity to pick up a welding table pretty cheap, but it only has a 1/4" top. Could I use another 1/4" plate to make it a 1/2" top? I'm thinking I could countersink screws into the top one to hold them together. Good idea? Bad idea? Mark

Is there any magic to installing VCT on an OSB floor? I'm finally finishing my loft, and VCT seems like a cheap and easy floor. Mark Sent from my cm_tenderloin using Tapatalk 2

If you can handle the color. http://denver.craigslist.org/mat/3169074112.html I looked at it yesterday, and it's not "light grey". It's basically a light beige, with very thin tan stripes. Nice looking tile, but too light for my tastes. Great deal, though. I got a few of the tiles to try, and...

I spent a lot of time in airports this week, and was noticing their floors. Both DEN and IAH have similar floors: They appear to be flaked like epoxy, but look to be tiles of some sort, with what appears to be metal edging instead of grout between them. What is this stuff? Would it work in a...

The floor (see, this is a flooring question) in my garage loft is OSB, with ground in drywall residue serving as its only "finish". I'd like to get a more usable floor down, and VCT seems like a nice inexpensive choice. What do I need to do to prep the surface? Would a simple vacuuming be...

... and after a year, or five, or fifteen, the epoxy yellows. How do you fix it? Grind it off? While we're on the subject of fixing VCT/epoxy floors, can you easily replace a tile that's been epoxied over? It seems like you could, but I don't know what all is involved in patching clear epoxy...