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It's not a question of the angle that you CAN shoot it at, it's more a question of the angle that you SHOULD shoot it at. I understand that most framers just want to get on to the next job as quickly as possible, but nailing on an angle results in a stronger connection. Nailing straight in...

Would you load a bunch of drinks into a cardboard box to keep them cold for a summer outing? They'll stay at a much more reasonable temp if you put them in a properly insulated cooler. ;) Insulation will make the space more comfortable and cost less to heat or cool. You pay for insulation...

If you don't cover the lineset insulation with something that is UV proof then the insulation will eventually rot away. It's just the nature of the beast. Plastics, rubber, etc. disintegrate from UV exposure. Better products have UV inhibitors added to them to slow down the process, but it...

If you drive the nails straight (perpendicular to the surface), then you'll have the end sticking out. If you lay the base of the nail gun flat onto the wood, then the nails will go in on an angle and not stick out the other side. (Ever notice that framing nailers say something like "21 degree...

Perhaps tape the edges of where the vinyl tape will go and fill the holes in the block so that you have a smooth surface (bondo, mortar, etc?). Remove the tape, let the filler dry, apply tape over the now smooth "stripe" on the wall. :)

Where the humidity is currently 96%. :( My Mr. Cool mini-split for the garage will be delivered in about a week. :)

I'm currently installing R30 in the ceiling of my stick built garage. Attics get HOT. Everything that you can do to keep the heat out of the building, the lower your electric bills will be. My walls are R13.

The answer to your question totally depends on where you live. In parts of Florida you can drill down 50 feet through sugar sand and get water. On the other hand, I looked into drilling a well for irrigation when I had an acre of lawn near Austin, TX. The house sat on solid limestone and they...

It would get expensive very quickly. It takes a **** ton of BTU's to warm up a pool. My sister had a 13K gallon inground pool with a 400K BTU natural gas heater, in Central Texas. It would take close to 48 hours to heat the pool, with the heater running 24x7. Even afterwards it would have to...

Buy the R18.5 door. There is no place on a pre-insulated door to add the aftermarket insulation because the cavity on the backside of the door is already insulated and closed off. You would have to glue the additional foam to the new door and bevel the edges quite a bit so that the door can...

Not in a residence. About the only thing insurance won't pay out on is if the police/fire dept. prove you committed arson. Most of the "if you do X, then your insurance won't pay" theories are urban legend.

Impressive carnage! Is that from a salt water pool?

A board that seriously wants to twist can pull out of the clip system. Now what? All of the fasteners are hidden, so you end up needing to remove a bunch of boards to work over to the clips that you need to access. :( They look awesome, but can be a bit problematic if you need to replace a...

Perhaps because overly dry soil isn't much of a problem in Florida? Ufer invented his solution for buildings in the Arizona desert that made the use of ground rods less effective since there was no moisture in the soil to provide a solid ground path.

I've read that you can't have too much return. The blower will only draw what it needs. It's the pressure side that can be affected by too many (or too few) outlets.

The fly traps that you add water to work pretty well, but you don't want one in your garage. The stench that they generate to attract flies is not something you want to be close to. ;)

He could have saved a bit of money by skipping the weed be gone. ;) Diesel kills everything. No other chemical additives required.

Once the powder coat gets chipped by rocks and other road debris then the steel will rust anyway. :(

It's built in to the system. The Samsung coder would have to write the firmware code to give the end user the option of what the system should do after a power failure. :( It sounds like your system only has 2 options. 1) Turn on after a power failure (even though it was NOT on before the...

You don't want weed killer, it kills ONLY certain types of weeds. It doesn't kill any types of grasses, even wild ones. You want a weed and grass killer. Look for a product called Ground Clear. It kills all vegetation and claims to prevent any new stuff from growing for "up to" a year. I...