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This company AVTECH.com,-RoomAlert offers a nice product that works well with Generac generators and all your other enviromentals like water , flow , HVAC and entrance . https://roomalert.com. It is a entry level commercial affordable solution for smpt traps with sensors for everything. They...

Snap on had a medicated hand cleaner in a red can. It worked the best when i was wrenching full time. The price started going up and I don't even know if it is available but it worked awesome wihtout ripping your hands up in winter with all the brine and salt they use up north .

You just need two ATS transfer switches . I have installed both large diesel and small air cooled generators both with separate 400 / split 200 amp services . I have two transfer switches on a 22 kw air cooled at my house and shop 300 feet away. You can also have one inside and get NEMA...

wow ! I think everyone needs to look at a can of paint or what goes in all the vehicles we work on here . I never thought this forum would be a tree huggin bashing place from people posting from their china I -phone . I gotta go and feed my coal boiler and wait for two hours for my electric...

Michigan prestain is the best. I think they might have been purchased by Lumbermans. Every time I figured the cost of cedar or pine and the finish cost they come out on top. I have a cedar house and used them for my siding and a 2500 sq foot finished basement that is all knotty cedar and was...

Good post. I’m curious what it will cost you. I heat a 40 x 80 steel building and a 4000 sq ft house with a coal boiler . Cost me around 1500.00 a year in PA. I’m coming up on 12 years and love my in floor heat . I keep the thermostat at 56 on average in the shop.

I call mine the “Final Tour Garage” . The last shop I ever will build at my age.

The best for driveways/ roads in the northern area is limestone size 2A with fines or recycled blacktop millings. spread in 4 inch lifts and crown your road grade and pack with a vibrating roller . If you do it right it will pack like concrete. If you don't t crown or slope your road right...

I don’t have an outside boiler. The boiler is inside my shop. I could have placed it in my basement of the house if I wanted. When I built my shop I have a utility room with the electric panel hot water heater and the compressor to avoid noise. I feed the house and just plumbed the shop boiler...

Coal I heat my house and large shop with hard coal boiler from alternate heating systems in pa . 8,000 plus sq feet with 300 feet separating the house from my shop. There is a website called coal pail was Nepa crossroads that is all about coal burning and stoves. Great bunch lot of info. I...

Just sandblast with a cheap pot blaster and 8.00 dollar bag of fine play sand from a box store . I had one I did over winter that had three layers of paint. The only way you can get the paint off and prepped in the cracks is with a blaster. You will have a day messing around with paint remover...

I have a 400 amp service with two transfer switches connected to a Generac 22kw generator. The meter is a mil bank with one feeder to ATS #1 feeding my house 200 amp panel that also has additional sub panels for the house . The other ATS #2 feeds another 200 amp panel in my shop almost 260’...

https://www.liftmaster.com/823lm-remote-light-switch/p/G823LM This is the switch I wired to my doors and it works with the My Q app also as a smart switch. Also works with Apple home .

I have three liftmaster 8500s door after door. I also had issues with the lights not to mention they just look cheap and ugly. I ended up installing 5 nice surface mount 4 ft led fixtures and purchased the lift master wall switch. I then wired two of the Led 4 ft fixtures to the liftmaster...

Just use a piece of 1” EMT and feed the rapid air line through it. On my steel beams I left it.

Just did similar upgrades in my house for exterior flood lights and inside lights. The lutron casta will be your best route. And they are expensive and addictive. I started with just one location and they after the ease of use and installation I switched many circuits over. I have both Apple...

add Steel liner on the walls . Just use angle recessed 3/4 on your girts so the plywood lays flat behind the liner . This will give you the ability to mount shelves. Run all your electrical in a bundle on the girts . Mac

I have a large roof ranch house . Just went through the gutter waste water issue in the fall . Best think I did was run schedule 35 6” SDR for the downspouts . Then exit all your pipes into a concrete street drain basin with a steel grate. Something like 3’x 3’. It will run you around...

You may want to just check with the cleaners that do the shop rags for the big shop and see if you can just have them wash them. I have always just drop a bag off and they charge by the pound . Even if you don't have a big shop they are still in the cleaning business and want to make $$$ . I...

I can’t believe no one mentioned Tiger hair or body putty . It is easy to work with sands nice and lasts forever . Mac