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Aw, cmon. It's a lot easier to tack stuff in place with a nail gun while you hold it in place with one hand/knee/leg, drink beer with the other, squint (good as safety glasses, right?), yell at your kids, and lean far off the side of your ladder so you don't have to climb down and move it...

Just a thought- if he uses a cleat on the back of his cabinet, that's 1.5" the cabinets are spaced out from the wall (assuming a dimensional 2x cleat of some kind). So a 2.5" screw would then only be 1" into the concrete, and less if he's got a 1/4" cabinet back to consider. That means on a...

I have a shed on the plan for kind of a learning experiment prior to taking on the building of a garage on the back corner of my property. Mine's going to be a little weird, though- I think I'm going to be salvaging/reconfiguring a shed that my mother-in-law wants to be rid of, so we'll have to...

i"ve been in the market for an impact wrench, and have heard guys on here talking about their nitrocat, but is that a SCREAMING deal or just "meh." Obviously I haven't been in the market THAT long...

I got so tired of wading through the "deals" on huge sacks of zip ties and weird home decor items that I finally gave up on it (the email list), though. HF is kinda like Taco Bell. You know it's cheap **** and that it's probably bad for you (definitely bad for you in quantity), and you stand a...

Did I read that right, that you have each 4-plug box hooked to its own 20A breaker? Overkill, or just making sure you overwire in case of future ____________? Looking great- I'm jealous of the fast progress!

What kind of compressor do you have? I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that the compressor I bought (oiled) was, in fact, way quieter than the oilless ones I had been around previously. It's quiet enough to cycle on and off in my basement garage with my infant son sleeping 9' or so...

Looks like a deal to me, if it runs and will cut grass (maybe even if it doesn't, but all the pieces are there). A 5' wide mower doesn't come cheap these days. That almost looks like it might be big enough to do some regular tractor work, too. Does it have a PTO in back or any hydraulic hookups...

Haha- ignore my rambling if a smart panel isn't a building material. Sounds like it might be a fusebox-like thing?

:lol_hitti Ha- I'm there all the time! I have about 50 projects ongoing at my house, and I would like to "just get them done" on every last one. :D Looks good, though- don't let my suggestion read as "man, you **** if you don't do _____" as that's not what I intended. :thumbup:

Not for nothing, I'm just a guy who works in an office, YMMV, no warranties expressed or implied, etc., but your wall will be a little stronger if you orient the long axis of your building materials perpendicular to one another. Since your studs are vertical, you'd want to hang your panels...

Sure does. Plumb up an airline from your litle compressor down there and run it along the back of your new bench? That might be cool, or maybe have a couple of drops that come out to the front under the countertop... :bounce:

I want one (the bigger the better), but I totally can't afford it at the moment, little kids, our house needs attention, etc... My wife's not the camping type, though I could probably convince her on some of the destinations if we could carry some of the "comforts of home" with us. I could see a...

Get a roll of duct tape and a roll of 4-mil plastic at Lowe's Depot and tape off the OSB if you're worried about it. It'd probably be OK to get it wet for a minute, but being as people are all terrified of mold and mildew these days, might not hurt to spend a few bucks and an hour and mask off...

For those keeping score at home- fuel cylinders for a Paslode cordless framer marked "Best By June of '05" don't work so great when they're coming up on two years out of date, even if they have never been opened. $12 for two cylinders, and my bathroom renovation was framed in just a few minutes...

My carport (that's just waiting on me to decide to get around to it to become a garage) is about 22x22- don't ask, I didn't build it, it was there when I got here. Anyway- it's big enough for putting small-to-medium cars in, but that's about it. I'm investigating storage sheds as a place to...

Score! Looks like the older model of the one I just bought brand new for $320 (specs anyway)- and that was with me waiting around for a 20% off sale. :thumbup: Is it an oiled pump? I found out in my reading that mine was a rebadged porter cable- don't know if yours is the same or not, hard to...

:thumbup: I started making some noie to mom and dad about buying a framing nailer to go with my new compressor, and dad says "don't do that, just borrow my Paslode." I didn't even know he had it- he's bad to buy a tool for one use and then put it up for a long period of time, and notoriously...

End nippers work to pull a finish nail through a piece of trim that you want to reuse, rather than buying a new one.They work pretty good for getting hold of a nail that a prybar or claw hammer won't grab on to, as well.

I finally picked a compressor and bought it, waited a week for it to come in, and went and picked it up. It's great, fairly quiet, and pretty much the most CFMs I can expect out of a (semi)portable tank. All I've used it for so far is airing up tires, though, since I haven't bought any tools to...