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If you are sensitive to cost, I'm surprised you haven't considered a bolt together steel building. Nice windows, residential roofing, residential insulation, stud framing, sheathing, drywall...forget the materials. Your cost is going to be in the labor.

No problem. I don't really have a problem supporting these companies. It's just difficult to find information about the product.

IMHO extra square footage is way more valuable than extra ceiling height. 6' deeper means an extra 360 square feet.

The main difference between the pro and the contractor are that the contractor's come with black anodized steps with an extra "lip" at the front that provides more step surface. The pros have the standard aluminum colored step. The Pro's come in a 12.5' / 300lb and a 15.5' / 250 lb version...

I've only ever seen steel garage doors in the past, so this one's a bit of a mystery. To my surprise, my garage has, at some point in the 90's had some kind of hollow-core garage door panels installed. They are basically wood framed with a hex core of cardboard on the interior, along with wood...

I have an Xtend & Climb Contractor Series 155+/300. It was an expensive ladder (given the competition), but I do think it was worth the price, given its versatility. I find the main advantage of the ladder is its portability. I can easily bring it upstairs without accidentally smashing my...

The door is 7' high

I think "high lift" is what I'm looking for (thanks), but only about 1 foot higher than normal. That would put the horizontal tracks just about a few inches below the ceiling. I have seen multiple "low headroom" kits with the torsion springs above the garage door, so I don't think "low...

900 square feet, 12 foot ceilings is a very large space. For temporary heat in a partially insulated 24x24 garage in Minnesota winters, I have only ever used propane. I usually cracked one garage door a few inches open to exhaust any CO2 and CO accumulation. Heat loss was immaterial as my...

I would not go smaller than 1/2" ID hose for blasting air. I used to run a fairly large blasting cabinet with Clemco BNP guns. There was a very big difference in effectiveness between 3/8 and 1/2 ID hose, a much bigger difference than I would have expected.

Without knowing exactly where this property is, it’s impossible to say. Reading through some of these responses makes me wonder if this is the first house you have ever tried buying.

No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Do not make this more complicated than it has to be. The standard fix is simply to cut out and replace the sections of plywood that are delaminating. This is not difficult to do nor particularly time consuming, especially if the delamination is...

"Primary concern is quality and how quiet it runs as the cabinet is up against living space in the house." I own and use a CAT-8010. I also have a 45 gallon 220V single stage oil lubricated compressor. The CAT-8010 is much, much, much quieter than my single stage. The quality of the...

Long story short, I have a 9' interior height garage. I'd like to gain as much headroom as possible when the door is open (higher than the garage door aperture, obviously.) Has anyone ever installed low headroom track in a normal height garage? Any gotchas or types of track that work better...

A pretty simple question I suppose: Is there a standard for hammer adze eye dimensions? If so, what's the reference? Or is it down to the opinion of the person building the hammer head?

I second the Rubbermaid Commercial Carts. They have pretty much taken over for anything involving actual motion. My tool carts of all types, flip lids, slide lids, any number of drawers, all built like bank safes - all of them end up being used for long term storage. The lightest of them (the...

The crosslinking of urethane polyols via isocyanates after the evaporation of the blowing agent reduces the amount of free polyisocyanate and diisocyanate, which migrates easily out of the blown urethane due to the high volatility of the isocyanates themselves. You cannot "air out" these...

I have a patent with several other co-inventors. Basically, a microscope using a rapidly steered femtosecond laser illuminating both a specific kind of fluorophore and also cells modified to produce a protein called a rhodopsin. Unfortunately, in my industry, real patentable innovations are not...

You're kidding me. Where did you go to welding school where they dedicate a 4"x90" belt grinder for tungsten only grinding? That's a huge waste of space and equipment considering your 4"x90" belt grinder just turned into a dedicated, tungsten-only device to prevent cross-contamination...

Belt sander? I would go insane if I had to use a belt sander to sharpen tungsten electrodes. I mean, it'll do in a pinch, but as part of an actual regular welding process? No way. I'm a practical man. A small bench grinder operating at high speed with a fine wheel is the only solution. I've...