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Yes, I thought this was common knowledge. The current hole is exactly the height of 3 courses ( three 7-5/8" Blocks plus three 3/8" mortar joints makes exactly 24". This means that if I wanted to keep the new courses level with existing I would also use 3/8" mortar joint and three full blocks...

Hi guys, My walls are standard 8X8X16" concrete block and I have a hole where a window used to be that is 32"wX24"h. I would like to fill-in the hole with new concrete block (three courses). Before just winging it, I'm a little concerned that there is no clearance (vertically) to lay in the...

My Father in law sent me this pic today, it's of a backgammon board I made for my Mother in law 3 years ago, It's one of the last things I made in my shop before packing up and shipping out to grad school.

Not sure exactly whats going on. Are you removing a wall into the addition part of the garage and want to pick up the load with a beam? There are trusses that span 24ft easy so I'm a little confused about what the problem is.

Gutters last.

My home has two "telescoping" posts in the basement holding up the center steel girder of my house. I don't like them as they look pretty temporary to me. When we bought the place 3 years ago the inspector said they were fine but I still want to replace them with lally columns...

I was wondering how this project went and did the grinding/epoxy do the job?

Nice work! Next time I'm layed up after knee surgery I know what I'm doing.

I once used some brake fluid on rag as a little rubbing compound to get a surface scratch paint from a few door to door dings off of my car. Worked real well.

Seems to me there are on occasion times when its not "hackish" to run UF inside of conduit. I have even seen this done in examples for protecting short sections of UF such as it coming up out of the ground to an exterior receptacle and the like. IMHO the OP is using the conduit in similar...

I used to be a bartender and bar manager back when you could still smoke in bars. I can tell you this, trying to clean the air of cigarette smoke while keeping the garage heated is an expensive endeavor. Contrary to what some people have said, from my own personal experience, smokeaters work...

Why do you want to use NM in conduit? Sounds like a perfect application for UF.

Did all my plans for the city with Sketchup. All I needed was 2d drawings so I actually just left the model(s) flat, no push-pull. This seemed to work the best for me. Sketchup's learning curve was steep, could I have done it with paper and pencil quicker? I'm not so sure, I was able to...

By the time it was over all I could do is laugh. Just spent an hour trying to squeeze "fire caulking" in all the holes for wiring and plumbing that pass through floor and ceiling of my addition. This was at the building inspector's request. I never felt so ridiculous climbing up and down...

This is typically 10/3.

If it were me I would just bite the bullet size up to 3" and run through the roof. With typical asphalt shingle over osb sheathing this is a quick job but I understand the not wanting to cut and seal with a metal roof. Next option would be to just place the Air admittance valve at the end of...

If we knew the pitch (10/12?) and the overhang (horoz dist from fascia to siding) we could to an exact calculation. Keep in mind you can tilt the sole plate of most saws to just over 45 deg, this allows you to keep the body of the saw mostly vertical and away from the siding which appears to be...

It's hard to tell exactly how big that eave is, will one of these fit under it? http://www.cordless-drills.net/dewaltheavydutycordlesstrimsawkit538inch144volt-pi-732.html I have this saw it's quite small and light and I've used it in similar pinch type situations. If this kind of saw fits...

I'm a homeowner doing my own work. I had two rough inspections yesterday, one electrical, one plumbing. They were my 5th and 6th inspection from the AHJ on this project. This whole time I've been a bit nervous because every time I tell someone I have an inspection they grumble about how...

Try researching blown-in cellulose. Do you have a ceiling or is there open trusses?