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    In ground post treatment

    Luckily the set was wooden, had been outside for close to 25 years (brittle), the trees were close enough and big enough to stop the long pieces and break them. We are kinda a wooded area but city moose get into swingsets and Christmas lights all the time and it isn't pleasant. They get...
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    In ground post treatment

    I wish it was that simple. Wifey found a design that she likes on Pintrest (i hate Pintrest). Not hugely complicated but I hate digging holes and that will be necessary
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    In ground post treatment

    This is for grandkids, already done my kids swing set. I'll just cut this off at the ground if necessary. A couple of years ago my wife called me at work to say that the swing set had been stole out of the yard. Not possible I told her, much too big and ackward. After looking around a bit...
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    In ground post treatment

    In ??. Tar paper?
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    In ground post treatment

    I will be sinking some 6x6 posts into the ground in cement for uprights for a swing set. I want the cement below the ground instead of using sono tubes so I can have grass on the surface. What is the best way to treat the posts for log term preservation. I will be using treated wood (ground...
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    16" ceiling lighting

    you are probably right
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    16" ceiling lighting

    Made in china?
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    16" ceiling lighting

    I've been in the shop for 10 years and bought some very affordable Feit 4' led hanging tube fixtures in the beginning. I have had exposed insulation/vapor barrier until very recently. The tubular stuff has served me very well. But the wires start plugged into an exposed outlet and the...
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    16" ceiling lighting

    I have a 30' X 20' shop with 16" ceilings. Can I get adequate lighting from thin LED recessed light fixtures. If so would I need 8" units and how would I space them? I have had LED tube lights in there, 2 rows of 4 fixture on 2 separate switches. I just got the ceiling sheetrocked and...
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    LVT floor question

    No body has any insite into long term effects of nailing an LVT floor?
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    Brand new concrete pad

    I looked at the spec sheets and did not see any details about individually managing cracks. Is is necessary to treat cracks or expansion joints a certain way? Also, in my situation I would need to move everything from 1 side to the other doing the floor in 2 pours/treatments. Does this stuff...
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    LVT floor question

    1 area was a doorway. Every time I tried to seat the **** ends they shifted or pushed away from connecting. The was a long wall that did the same thing. There I couldn't get spacers to seat due to the uneven decking where it met the sill plate. so I used some nails to secure the receiving...
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    LVT floor question

    I just installed approx 350 sq ft of LVT in an efficiency apartment. It is a floating floor with spacers supposed to be installed at the walls. In some areas I needed to nail it down to get a solid lock of the pieces as I butted them up to each other. Due to some sloppy outside perimeters I...
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    Who has a toilet in shop or at least a sink

    I couldn't survive in my shop with out a throne, don't have to walk across and into house, take off shoes & coveralls etc... Likewise the sink to clean brushes and other things that need to be kept out of the house. I can can fish and make beer without using the house kitchen
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    Concrete floor question

    I'm not sure that it will cure correctly if you seal it, but it's done
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    How would you move this machine?

    You seem to be the only one that recognized the 7" difference. Got to use some equipment or build a lifting platform to lay it on it's side, slide it in and stand it back up. Measure twice, cut once certainly applies here
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    1000 SqFt Retirement Home

    Call their customer service line and ask them
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    Where to go for questions on local code to install a few more outlets in garage (NC)?

    I think if the 1st outlet on the run is a GFCI everything downstream is covered
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    Back flush toilet

    Thank you very much. I just learned way more here than on the website and you tube
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    Back flush toilet

    ProFlo 1gpf
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