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I'm finishing up a new shop that is built into the hillside of my home. It is essential a daylight poured foundation with concrete roof. With the exception of the garage doors the entire thing will be underground. This will be a Fab shop for me, do I'm going densifier on the floor to keep...

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Thank you, thank you. Amazing response in such a short time.

No luck with the manual as it lists them as "bolts". Customer service had nothing as well.

I'm picking up a used HF 44" roller cabinet that has casters but the bolts holding them on are long since lost. Anyone know the bolt diameter and approximate length? I'm assuming they are metric and my on site assortment of metric fasteners is pretty limited. It would be great to have...

I'm getting ready to start the installation of a Kohler standby generator with whole house automatic transfer switch (ATS) My electric service is underground and after arriving in my basement enters a meter box and is then fed into my main breaker panel. In practice, the ATS needs to connect...

Rottie, I have not brought an engineer into the mix as I'm still trying to ballpark a price before spending money on stamped drawings. If this is way outside my budget I rather not have a set of expensive plans hanging on the wall. What I've learned is the foundation portion is pretty...

This will be built into a hillside and the roof portion would be used as a patio above. I would cover this patio in bluestone to match the existing yard so concrete seems like the only viable alternative. I think a concrete roof pour is going to be tough and expensive but hollow core precast...

Figured I would bump this before giving up. Anyone know a decent contractor capable of a foundation style garage outside of Boston?

I'm in the early stages of building a 30x50 garage into a hillside at my home. The hope is to build this as a 3 sided concrete structure with a concrete ceiling/roof. Essentially a basement with a concrete roof. The garage door side would be stick built to save on cost. I'm only after a...

Fitz Thanks for the first hand knowledge. I am going to give this a shot. If it fails miserably I will likely have some pallet racking for sale shortly

I can likely add some bracing to the building and some angled supports as well. No dance parties up top, but I was planning on moving some of my wood shop up there. Anyone ever assemble pallet racking with only one shelf? Vin

I started planning a wood 12x30 loft for my garage when I stumbled into some pallet racking for sale. The pallet racking is 4 foot wide uprights with 14 foot beams. I am toying with only installing beams in the topmost position (to form an upside down u) and stacking 4 foot width against each...

Peter, Yep, same guy that snagged those lights from you a while back (which continue to work perfectly) This will be my wood shop, so 3/4 plywood was the planned flooring. I was considering adding some simple glued down laminate squares flooring to pretty the place up, but that would likely...

I'm looking to add a 12X30 loft in my existing 30X60 steel building. This will need to be freestanding and I plan on building it with wood. I am fine with a row of support columns down the middle, so we are essentially looking at two 12X15 platforms with the longest span being 15 feet. I'm...

I just won a 3M Speedglas Welding Helmet (model 9100V) which I don't need. I all ready have the same helmet and can say first hand that it is a very nice unit. It is brand new, in the unopened original box. If you need details, they can be found at...

Sberry Thanks for confirming what I though I knew. <GRIN> The 240 volt circuit does need a neutral (it is a VFD that requires it) No excuses now for not getting started pulling wires. Vin

I plan on running some 1/2 EMT to power two 120 volt circuits, and 1 240 volt circuit. Each circuit is 20Amps (12 gauge wire) I believe I'm limited to 9 total (12 gauge) conductors before reducing capacity of the wiring when using 1/2 EMT. The plan is: 1) For the two 120 volt, 20 amp...

Thanks for the advice. I'm stuck with a hotdawg style heater as it is being installed by the seller as part of the deal. Long story... Looks like we will go with their 100K BTU/Hr output unit. Seller is installing 3 ceiling fans as well, which should help moving the air around, and pushing...

Peter, I'm pretty shocked that we have not crossed paths at a hummer rally in NH. (or maybe we have?) Regardless, I may be interested in a few lights if you can spare some details. I just closed on a new shop outside Newburyport and imagine we are relatively close. Shoot me a PM with any...