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This is how my 16' header looks - final studs added later.

Have a nice Torin Big Red engine crane. The 8 ton cylinder is leaking down slow under load. I can replace it for under $100, either with a replacement Torin or an HF air assist unit. I suspect it's wore out, having been in use over 20 years. Could be leaking past the bleed down valve, but...

Same - use the Hardi. No problems with bees carrying hammers and saws around here, but the Hardi hold paint better and may well get you a discount on insurance.

I run 2x4 walls with R13 and the ceiling right now is also R13. I can cool the 24x28 work area to low 80s, high 70s with a 10.5K AC unit when it's 105+ outside depending on when I start the unit. I can keep the whole 960 sq/ft building nice with 20K BTU of cooling, and heat it with 17.5K of...

In my experience, alcohol - at least methanol - burns pretty clear, not a lot of flame. Nearly impossible to see in the daytime for sure. And methanol fumes are nothing to be trifled with. I have easy 50+ gallons of alcohol sitting around most of the time but I'd look to propane, personally.

I'd go with conduit, at least 2". As for double - meh. Unless you break it during the pull, you'll likely never touch it again. We've got 80,000+ feet in the ground here at work, going on 20+ years and we just pulled another upteen thousand feet through the same 4" runs, upwards of 288...

No hub with Kasa and we have a bunch now. I don't see any advantage to a "hub" - the "hub" is in software. I can group, name, etc as I like. Alexa "goodnight" command turns all lights off, etc. Ring equipment doesn't work with much of anything, looks to me. And also looks like you have to...

We use Kasa and I'd cut into the line to the floods in the attic and install box+switch. Or the wall, whatever. You don't necessarily need to ever see the switch.

I have two ports next to benches. I used the coiled lines, bit of a PITA sometimes but not too bad.

O'Reilly's - I buy it by the case. Cheapest around, works good. Yes, it's bad stuff, so don't spray it on just anything.

I've thought about doing my own but...It was right at $60 at the DEALER to have the F-350 oil changed. That's 8 quarts and the filter and all I did was stand around. In and out in under an hour. We have no disposal facility in my home city and not in the mood to hunt up jugs to haul it 25...

Unbolt the sill plates, build the walls in sections on the slab and nail the studs to the sills, then stand them back up.

This - our house was build in 2000 to "current code" and I have found a lot of "eh, skip it" type electrical work. And some down right dangerous.

Agree with the others - chop saw not the thing for what you describe. I have the HF model 14" and it does just great at less expense. Everything on this lathe bench was cut on the orange chopper: Have you looked here for possible updates to your common 4x6 metal saw -...

Lived 40+ years in Fort Worth, never had issues with rust as you describe. Granted the RH can be somewhat higher there than west Texas. Spent 4 years in Houston, only minimal tool issues there. +2 on storing chemicals of some sort. Pool chlorine and/or muriatic acid will cause all kinds of...

My entire shop is OSB over R-13. No issues.

This, and you're going to want a 2x8~2x8 or so running flat across the area where your valve mounts, so you will have a solid backing for it. Have the valve and instructions on hand so you can set the proper depth in the finished wall.

Multiple garage doors waste wall space. I can get two cars, even a truck and two cars into a 28' wide space with a single 16' wide door.

Heat pump. We saved a ton of power $$$ going from 12.5kW worth of electric heat to a heat pump on 1600 sq/ft. The old AC system needed a 60A breaker just for the heat part of the air handler.

THe modified roof area over my lift. 2x6 rafters and the "ties", which are not ties but just there to hold the OSB ceiling material. Insulation is R13, 3 1/2".