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    Best choices for yard and garden tools in corner of cleaned-up garage?

    Peg board and slat panels collect lots of bugs and spiders. Keep it simple and clean.
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    Jackshaft Garage Door Openers: Which will be best for cost vs. return (Bang for the buck)?

    Two Liftmaster 8500’s here on a barn. One on a 10x10’ insulated section door. The othe on a 10x18’ uninsulated section door. They are great openers and have zero issues lifting the larger doors
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    New shop build. 60x40

    Congrats on the build. 60'x30' with 10'x10' and 18'x 10' doors here. Geez, great wife there. I hope you let her drink out there while your working:beer:
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    Let's See Your Garage Dog

    Garage guard till the milk bones come out.
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    Garage size to hold 6 cars

    30'x60' will easily hold 6 cars with plenty of shop space. Ours has 12' walls and a 10'x10' insulated and 18'x10' non- insulated doors. 36" man door. Devided into 24'x30' insulated/heated shop room with provision for lift and 13'6" scissor truss ceiling and 36'x30' storage with 12' ceiling...
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    Coupling Treated and Non-treated Posts

    You can order 6x6 22’-26’ long post. Will save a ton of labor and time. Either way you do it you still need to set and brace post till the upper frame is attached. We have a 12’ wall with post set 54” below grade using 6x6, no regrets. Using trusses, if I remember correctly our longest post was...
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    Garden Hose Recommendation

    Craftsman 50' black rubber with brass ends here.
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    Parking slab thickness question

    Do car work here. Inside building is 4" 6 bag slab with wire mesh, 2" foam board except where 4 point lift is and a compacted sand base. Apron outside is 24'x48' 4" 6bag with wire mesh and rebar on a compacted sand base, also thickened to 6-8" around the edges and at pole barn door entrances...
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    Radon mitigation stack

    Many sump systems incorporate floor drains located in the basement floor. Those drains have traps. Unfortunately the continuously running Radon vent fan dries the water in those traps. This exposes your basement to more of the radon should you turn off the fan, or sump stink. Yuck! According to...
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    Adding Garage door to pole barn.

    With proper bracing you can remove a post and install a heavy LVL as stated above. Your right, allot of work, but not impossible for sure. I have doors on the side of the barn, see photo) and all the builder did was post at the door sides (10’ & 18’ doors) and put in a heavy LVL with three 2x12”...
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    Semi-Smart Garage Door

    Buy your favorite opener. Don't connect it to the web. Put a few manual door locks on the door for security. Leave the manual locks unlocked if your going in and out. When done for the day, week, month lock the manuals. Our Liftmaster 8500's have a electronic deadbolt that works quite well...
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    water line from house to shop

    We did 160' of 1" black (plastic?) to the barn hydrant. That's also 5' down in 3" pvc chase and running up slope. 3/4hp well pump. Plenty of water at the hydrant for all kinds of work.
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    How can I move this tv ?

    Sawsall. Opps. That's what I did with the projection tv in basement.
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    Asphalt later but gravel now?

    2" crushed limestone works nice. If a temporary situation I would just put down 2" of the limestone and have it conpacted. I did this a couple years ago for the house while awaiting to put in a cement drive. It has held up very well to the UPS, FedEx trucks and others. If you put limestone...
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    looking for garage door opener

    Mine were purchased a couple years ago here https://weshipgaragedoorparts.com. Their price was good at the time, don't know about today. The units I have are a previous model that did not have wifi or battery back up. I was able to add a MYQ receiver for the house door opener. You might give...
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    looking for garage door opener

    We have the Liftmaster 8500's on the barn in the picture. They lift a 10x10' insulated door and a 10x18' uninsulated door. The openers run great, quite and very good lifting power. Oh, they also draw very little electric current so you can put a couple of these on one 15amp circuit with ease...
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    Choosing a decent wall paint at Home depot

    Sherwin Williams matte is a real nice finish for a great room. For the shop I would use semi-gloss. Always buy the high end offerings, less spatter, easy clean up, less roller lines. Etc.. I have pretty much given up on HD and Lowes offerings. Only buy SW and Pittsburg from their stores. With...
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    Does your homeowners insurance cover your pole barn?

    Long story short and boring....SAFECO *****!!! Bad auto claim experience with them! It's a Liberty Mutual problem, they own Safeco. Auto Owners here. Pole barn,60x30, covered with house at 10% of house value. We added additional for the barn and the cost was very reasonable. Cannot remember the...
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    Adjustments on door going from manual to jackshaft opener?

    18'wx10'tall uninsulated door here with a jackshaft opener (Liftmaster) lifts without a problem. Door was installed with pretty much neutral balance on it. Same thing with my 10'x10' insulated door, no issues. Without the openers I was able to open the doors half way and they would stay there...
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    gravel driveway resurface material &cost

    Cover with 3" crushed limestone 3/4", then compact heavily. The finished product will be like a cement drive. The thicker you go the better. However, it really needs to be compacted. When we di ours we used 3" limestone and the guy that put it in compacted with a machine that had a 4' diameter x...
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