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my uncle actually just gave me that table saw, I haven't used it yet but I already like it for the cost $0.

My son is two now, have another boy due in march. Gonna get busy around here!

It's a bit better than before.....

leak test was on it for a day and a half and the gage never moved. Has a tracer wire and a yellow warning tape above the pipe.

heater is in

Plumber had to -take a trip out to my town to pull permit -go pick up his materials -come install materials -call inspector -meet inspector for inspection -have insurance -have a license for gas fitting Even if he made 8 or 900 I have no problem with it.

Well, line is in and signed off by the inspector. Final bill from the plumber is $1130. Yahoo.

Guys, my dad's friend is going to do it for 1300. Still seems steep but its 700 less than the uncle was..... Plus he can do it in the next couple days. I guess this is the cost of living in Massachusetts....

Guys, My father is good friends with another local plumber and I'm waiting on a quote from him today. Hopefully its more reasonable.......

Thanks!!! I feel better..... errr or worse.... I'm going to get some more quotes, I'm not really comfortable doing gas fittings myself, plus its not allowed here in communist massachusetts...

Ok, so my garage is detatched and I'm looking to have the natural gas run out to it for heating. The meter on the house is on the corner nearest to the garage so its only about a 10 foot underground run. I was quoted $2000 dollars just to run the gas line with me having to dig the trench and...

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Well its been a long time coming but the concrete truck is coming today!!!! new floor going in!!!! I had to chip out 4 or 5 inches of pavement and then found 4 or 5 inches of junk concrete under that which I also removed. I then found there was no frost wall across the front of the garage...

Thats what I'm leaning towards now. I'm going to pour the floor pretty thick, probably 6" since I'm planning putting some milling and turning machines in there.

anyone else have any words of wisdom?

I had been planning on pinning the slab to the walls with the rebar grid I'm going to use.... I'm thinking I'm not going to do that now though. I'll have to read up on counterforts - never heard of those.

It's got sand in there now.

Pinning would keep my walls that are 4 or 5 feet above grade from leaning outwards anymore, which was really my main goal with using pins. One of the walls above grade had a split about in the middle and been pushed out a bit over the years, although the footer wall I pinned and poured with...

no mesh or rebar in your floor?

Guys, I'm getting close to pouring my new floor in my approx 22 x 18 garage. I've busted up and discarded about 5 inches of pavement and 4 inches of broken up concrete that had no rebar/mesh in it. I'm torn on if I should pin the new slab to my stem walls or not. The original walls are...