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My concern about lifting the slab is there appears to be a waterline and an electrical conduit coming up through the floor. Don’t know if these would move or break if slab was jacked up. I calculate that to top the slab would take about 90 cubic feet of material. Would be same volume to jack it...

a hotel in the region had a beautiful end grain fir floor. Well, it was beautiful till a water leak which made the floor swell and erupt into a catastrophic mess.

Although people are moving out of California, the DW has decided we are moving there for the weather in our retirement. I can’t say that’s a bad idea as we live on the windiest, rockiest, rainiest bit of mud in Oregon. In any case we bought a home in the Fallbrook area (No. San Diego county)...

‘I had no intention of containing a raging bull. My fences have been built for privacy or as a visual demarcation of a property line.” “Those posts are for chain link fence, they are not designed to resist the wind load of a wooden fence.” About 10 years ago my wife bought two range steers and...

I’m confused…. Was the whole yard supposed to be concrete? Are those supposed to be sidewalks? It looks like all the yard concrete is relatively thin, certainly doesn’t appear formed up and will hopefully be easy to demolish.

I can’t believe those last round posts are 16 gauge! You could bend those over your knee. A minor wind storm would certainly roach them. I bought 21 foot x 2” galvanized pipe and got 3 seven foot posts from each that will probably still be here when I’m not. My experience with EMT is that...

I have 4 columns at front of house holding up a horizontal beam that holds up the outside edge of a shed roof. The columns were cast in 12” diameter sonotubes and are 9’ tall. The darling wife wants the shape changed to square and then stuccoed to match the home. I was thinking of painting the...

I hate when water runs in instead of out. I’m dealing with now with a new rental I just bought. Who laid out the slope for the floors? Did you specify a slope towards the door in your contract?

Home Depot 12 gauge stranded wire 1 year ago = $60/500ft roll, now $100.

Is the bearing any good. Is it spinning because it’s starting to seize?

$31.55/sheet 7/16” 4x8’ OSB, The Dalles, OR today.

My method. Place toilet. Outline with pencil. Remove toilet and butter bottom of toilet, well, with butter, of course. Now mix thin=set kinda thick.(would that be thick-set?) Place the thin-set on the concrete just inside the pencil line where it would contact the lower rim. Jostle the toilet...

Your contract has no “performance guarantee” by him that lays out a completion date?

1. How are planning on running the conduit? Don’t drill though the framing! This might be a good building to run surface mount conduit. 2. 1x4s are going to be floppy over that distance. I would opt for c-channel girts and spray foam after these are installed. The spray foam will help to...

Curious as if you are going though all the effort of new concrete why you wouldn’t cast anchors into the concrete? This would likely be stronger and eliminate a failure mode of drilled in/epoxied anchors. When the building feed got hit, that must have been exciting!

At my house, 20 years ago, I was required to run 1.25 pvc the 200’ to my house. When that failed last year, due to living on cobble, I ran 1” Pex inside a 2” pvc sleeve, in case I ever had to redo that. I have my house, my shop with a full bath, and grandmas doublewide all feeding off the same...

I see our local HD dropped osb fro $24 to $20 a sheet. Seems like 18 months ago it was under $10.

When my uncle built his house, he built 4 foot tall forms for the foundation out of plywood sheets and framing lumber. These were built as 8 foot wide panels and bolted together. When he pulled the forms they were placed them on top of each other, on top of the stem walls to form the...

So you mention the garage loops are a luxury. Does this mean you won’t heat the garage most of the time? Heating slabs are like driving a ship. You need to decide where you are going to be in the future. Meaning: your garage won’t heat up in a few minutes or a few hours if you want to use it...

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