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Not exactly a tool, but I thought the handy guys here might have opinions. As a favor, I'm likely to be painting a friend's house interior. It has been converted to open plan, so I have a large area where I need to paint the ceiling and don't want to be moving cloths as I go. My current...

I simply can't imagine doing trusses with a crane and inexperienced crew. My only experience was being the lead on a Habitat crew. We had 2 ridiculously experienced carpenters, and probably 6 or so quite experienced volunteers, and were working on a two floor house. One volunteer had experience...

There's a good 'This Old House' segment where they do a basement wall-rigid foam and strapping. It is less deep than a full 2x wall, but still allows wire pulls and standard electrical boxes. Rigid foam is getting expensive, but this is a fast and efficient way to get usable wall framing...

Not sure what this guy is, but I often find them in wood that I'm splitting for firewood--usually from trees that have been taken down because they are dying. One thing that it made me think--you can understand what the woodpeckers are feeding on. That's a nice chunk of protein!

The 'newcomer' in our area is Kolbe, offering Euro style windows, but they are pricey. They seem to be de rigeur for the fancy beach houses out in the Hamptons... I'm not sure if they are in wide distribution or not: https://www.kolbewindows.com/

Any chance that you have a local zoning authority that requires 'As Builts' to be filed after the home is completed. We would typically include a drawing on a copy of the survey showing the locations of water/sewer/gas as well as any drainage lines that we installed. especially if they were not...

Yes--I'm using one of those in the shop. It was a lucky acquisition that came with my "new" set of woodworking tools that a friend whose husband passed decided I should have... It is less useful than goggles for some of the stuff that I get involved with, but fine for upright shopwork...

Thanks--I'll try them out. I wear eye protection less than I should because most choices are painful to wear. I'm really annoyed with the change in materials/straps on the 3M cartridge respirators--I could wear my old one (that the straps disintegrated on) for hours at a time when necessary...

We've been having some torrential rains lately, so if that's what occurred, then you can get a fair amount of water inside in a hurry. A picture of the roof would be helpful. It's probably helpful to consider two scenarios-- (1) the roof has been leaking for quite some time, and the quantity...

Ladders, fatigue and steel toed boots. Ladders: I am much more careful about where and how I set ladders before use. Got a double-side step for working on electrical; quality stepladders for high work. Get someone to brace the ladder if possible. Low stuff, use a drywall bench; and I recently...

I suspected as much--but I got seduced by all the through-wall ones being flogged on Amazon--you would think there was not much of a market for those either. The roofer from whom I borrowed the pictures were using their in-house copper expertise as a selling feature so you are probably right...

Swing and a miss--if you read carefully, you will see that I was indeed asking about scuppers that are (a) open, and (b) drain into what you call a conductor head and I called a "downspout collector" and "gutter box" since I was unclear about nomenclature for gutters. And yes, I already found...

One of those things that seems hard to find. The copper trade folks have a CAD drawing (but no template of the flat layout starting point) and most of what I can find presumes that you are working on a commercial flat roof, typically with a parapet where you are going through it, so the scuppers...

I'm on Facebook marketplace a lot looking for affordable building materials. I see trusses for sale almost every day on the 'What's new' or whatever they call the items that they serve up when you first look. I've certainly thought about getting trusses and then designing a garage around them...

Last one I did, this is what we used. The home owner was fighting to seal up the house against racoons after a momma racoon moved in and had her babies in the attic.

Some of us buy the tools we can afford because that's all we can afford. And, presumably the price we initially paid even for inexpensive tools included a wedge to cover (eventual) warranty returns. And you have side-stepped my initial point--don't advertise a warranty and then fail to ensure...

I see older threads on this issue, but I wanted to say that Home Depot does not educate their staff on the Husky warranty policy. They have a whole page on the website, and the first section is very clear--tools like wrenches have a "Lifetime Warranty". No mention of receipts, proof of purchase...

I found this flashing tape @ 50% off ($5 and change) in our local Lowes (Nanuet, NY). It was over on a wall of clearance items, and not anywhere near the windows/construction materials: https://www.lowes.com/pd/ReliaBilt/5013949233

Thanks all--after I posted I did find previous threads that concurred that polycarbonate seems to be the better choice, and the local Home Despot has them for ~$36 vs $22 for cheaper PVC. Now to get some design ideas...

I remember when people used to build backyard greenhouses or deck "roofs" using those corrugated plastic (fiberglass?) panels that seemed to disintegrate pretty fast in the weather. Has anyone used a recent iteration of a translucent panel that they would recommend? I'm thinking of an attached...