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I looking for ideas on where to get aluminum drip cap/Z flashing to go over the top edge of Smartside 5/4 trim which is really a hair less than 1" thick. It appears steel would be easier to find, but I don't want it to rust eventually. I went to a lumberyard I have bought aluminum trim from in...

I ordered a Siemens PN series load center from Amazon Warehouse. I opened up the box this morning and was surprised to see the bus was not the shiny copper bus like the five other PL series load centers I have. My immediate reaction was they sent me the wrong load center with an aluminum bus...

I have a crappy little 2.5 ton floor jack I use regularly for lifting up power equipment and my large zero turn mower. It was all of $20 or $25 at Menards. I got Menards to replace it once under warranty because it failed. The floor jack seems to have failed again as it won't lift my 1,200 lb...

I was stupid and only ran a 3/4" conduit for the Internet out to my solar inverters. I put in two Ethernet cables originally as I wasn't going to have 120 volt power to power a switch or fiber transceiver. I figured out a way to install a 120 volt circuit since then. Will a fiber with LC ends...

I recently took apart my Makita brushless grinder to see if I could fix it. There is one of those anti-theft strips inside the tool itself. This grinder was purchased in 2016. When did they start putting anti-theft strips right in the tools themselves? They have been in the packaging for a...

I have a Makita brushless grinder and It stopped working while I was cutting concrete with it. I turned it off for a moment, and when I tried to turn it on again it was dead. (Yes, I swapped batteries.) Should I be looking at the switch first to try to fix it? I would rather not spend...

My house has 24" eaves and my existing detached garage has shorter eaves, but not really sure on the size. The house has 8 foot walls so the wide eaves make it so the soffit has to be notched around the top of the front door trim. The soffits are lower than the ceilings in the house by about a...

LP makes/used to make a so-called ploughed fascia trim board for fascia. It is a piece of trim with a groove cut for the soffit to rest in. Anyone know if this is still made? All of the big box stores show it as no longer available on their website. LP's website has this product on some...

We had a thunderstorm Friday morning that killed some of my A/V equipment. My A/V receiver the HDMI out port no longer works, and the HDMI port on the TV seems to be dead. My Tivo is also going crazy and rebooting all the time. The TV still works on the second HDMI port. I have no idea if a...

Not sure if this is the right sub-forum for this. I recently bought a bunch of pipe fittings, valves, and such. Most have hex spots for use with wrenches. I have a set of large SAE wrenches, but in some cases none of my wrenches fit properly. Would these possibly be metric, or just sloppy...

My current detached garage has a huge apron in front of it. 24 feet long and 20 feet wide. The rest of driveway is gravel. Anyhow, I had water in the garage after most rainfalls and in the winter. I added gutters which helped somewhat. I finally checked and the concrete is sloped TOWARDS...

I want to replace the garage door on my current detached garage because it won't match the garage door on my new detached garage. Any reason to go with an insulated door if the building won't be insulated? I just have a cheap steel door now that works fine. The first price I got I thought was...

I have solar and I expect to have an EV in the next few years. My utility offers the option for a second meter for cheap electricity overnight, but very expensive otherwise. Typically the EV meter would be installed at the garage and only be connected to the EV charging circuit(s). My problem...

What is the correct way to size wire for a feed to a garage? My feed is about 75 feet. The Southwire voltage drop calculator says to use 1/0 for aluminum or 1 AWG for copper at 100 amps no matter if I put in 1 foot or 75 feet. Ampacity charts for 100 amps show copper should be 3 AWG and...

I am installing a vertical run of 2" PVC conduit a bit of five feet long with 18" buried. Does this need an expansion fitting? The utility company required me to use a meter slip fitting when I replaced the meter base for my underground service.

I am currently running underground conduit for my new garage even though the slab hasn't been poured yet. I have to run the conduit at least part of the way from current garage to the new garage because I will no longer have access once a new driveway is poured at the same time as the slab...

I swear I only have bad luck. I rented a mini excavator this morning and I noticed the tracks have cracks in them. One of the tracks broke so now I am losing three or four hours on what may be the nicest day for the weeks to come. The rental place said they couldn't get a spare track at the...

I am finally starting on my 24x60x16 garage build at the end of this month with the floating concrete slab being poured. Should I include windows in my garage? If I did so they would be awning windows placed around 12 feet high on the side walls. Would I regret not having the windows? I...

I have decided for financial reasons I am going to build a second garage for my RV rather than tear down my existing detached garage. The large garage may be slightly more functional, but the two garages together will have the same number of square feet as the larger garage. Does $13.40 per...

I have always kept my aluminum extension ladders outside exposed to the four seasons of weather. They have always been just fine. One of my aluminum ladders is broken so I picked up a new fiberglass extension ladder. Is it a good idea to keep a fiberglass ladder outside, or is the UV going to...