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I keep a breaker bar and the right size lug socket in each vehicle. Harbor freight bars are cheap enough to have one for each.

Another thought: Would it be better to do the whole left side in 2" PVC? The tub can come into the end of the line off the trap, pick up a dry vent off a vertical wye right after that, then downstream pick up the ejector pump on another 2x2x2 wye and street 45 to get my angle back in the right...

Need a sanity check on a proposed plumbing layout for my house. I am fixing a basement bathroom (already installed the ejector pit and under slab drains) that used to drain out to the tank but had to nix that drain line for a French drain system (part of my basement saga.) I am also turning two...

I learned this working on helicopters in the Marines. We called the lacing tape cat gut.

I am totally rewiring my house because I found out some idiot before I got this thing ran the 3 way switches on 14/2 romex using the bare copper ground as the traveler. I have found many more issues as I have gone along.

I use one of the 6 gallon "racing" fuel jugs to hold my used oil. When full I take it in. I had the same issue with a pan, so I got a new pan and cut up some 1" strips from a rubber bungee cord. E6000 glued them to the bottom perimeter as feet so the pan can't wear. I'll take a pic next time I...

I mean in the stud walls that I will build over the XPS insulation. I was planning on spray foaming the rim joist to seal and insulate it.

Looks like xps sheets is the way I'll go. Would it also be good to insulate the stud wall on top of the XPS or overkill?

The moisture problem was bad, but all evidence since shows that I fixed it with the French drain system.... 12+ months I think since it was done. In my wife's mind, anything we put back on the walls will immediately mold and begin destroying the wood framing and ruin the health of the family.

I guess I am overthinking any moisture coming down the board and not getting behind that dimple board on the footer? It's a block basement and I drilled all the block cores and joints to drain under that dimple board.

This sticks up and out a tad. So would I ditch the plastic altogether? My wife is worried about any water that may come in and miss the drain and end up on the floor. But the basement has been bone dry since I completed the French drains all around.

The dimple board sticks up about 1/4 to 1/2 inch above the slab along the wall. How would I go about getting any water to drain into that area? Raise the panel above that lip, frame, then spray foam that lip on the bottom? I'll post a pic later of the wall

I do have plastic that goes from the top of the wall all the way down into the dimple board at the footer. That Insofast would run me over $3k it looks like

I have a basement in a 1965 house. I did a full interior french drain, I believe I will closed cell spray foam the walls, with the studs 1/2" off the wall so the foam seals behind. Any issues with that plan?

Yeah I don't have the pictures anymore and it was a long time ago. Sorry! It was pretty easy to make and worked well though

What about the outlets you can wire straight from the back but have to tighten the screw plate down on?

I like the wago nuts, quick, easy, and clean

I am rewiring my house now, and I discovered that someone used the ground (bare copper ground inside romex) as one of the travelers in my 3 way lighting circuits. Oy vey.

Square D sells those yellow covers for the main terminals.

I will buy a couple of the bearings. I need to do one front wheel bearing on the wife's car, the other is sure to follow soon. I will definitely Grease the screw, I never understood why people did them dry.