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Here is some of what I came up with when remodeling this neglected lake house back in 2016: Winter was late that year, luckily, so I got an extra month to reroof and prep for siding while teaching myself hydronics and threading tubes among joist bays while working full time. It starts with a...

I swapped around some gas cylinders today. I last refilled the straight CO2 on my MIG a dozen years ago and finally ran it out this last weekend. I hooked up the mystery cylinder I bought at a garage sale at least five years ago and discovered it’s a full 75/25 which is perfect for MIG. The...

Are you copying me? I also have work areas in the back and other similarities. A tractor (&junk) are in a full length lean-to on the other long side.

Also not above a bench:

IF he has a regulator with a flowmeter; some regulators don’t. Easy enough to add one.

Try it. Your resulting weld will tell you if it is enough, but I doubt that it will affect the flow.

I seriously doubt that truss loading doesn’t have at least a small safety margin such that you couldn’t scoot one truss over 2 or 3 inches to make room for your stairway. Blocking and sheathing will have to accommodate the odd spacing, of course. **** it’s OK**** I would FAR...

During design and construction of my 40x60 shop, the local natural gas provider was yet again threatening us with another winter of potential gas shortages. With that in mind, I went with just wing foam instead of pex with underslab insulation in case we ever had to limit gas usage and have to...

My prior garage had 10’ walls and scissor trusses in the lift bay with a 144.25” tall 10k Bendpak centered front to rear in a 24’ deep building.

The racking that I am familiar with uses 6” long Hilti brand anchors, using four per upright (assuming on concrete). The beams are retained to the uprights with ~6” long carriage bolts in existing square holes parallel to the beams. If all of your uprights were the same excess height, you could...

I used one exactly like that in 1981. I just came across the spare tips deep in an unused toolbox drawer. I remember that it was incredibly inefficient and loud and dusty and I have no idea where mine is now, so I must have tossed it with prejudice. I was just given a tabletop blasting cabinet...

I like the beginning of the loops (hotter water) to start on the perimeter of the slab and work their way inward.

Bolt down at least the center upright, and if you find an upright with the doubled verticals (also known as earthquake rated) even better.

I murdered my back hunching over for a full day tying tubes to the remesh on my first slab. Now you can stand up to staple tubes to the foam in any pattern or spacing you like, like near together at the perimeter and spaced farther apart midfield, or avoiding the two-post anchoring, or bulbous...

I would staple the pex to the foam and then place the mesh on chairs. Don‘t be afraid to keep the pex a couple feet away from the hoist posts. No pex under the walls or outside the overhead doors. Don’t kink the pex!

Today in my shop I found a gallon jug of filthy taps and dies that I completely forgot about buying at a garage sale years ago. Sorting through the pile and had just started scrubbing with a brass toothbrush when I realized ”hey, *******, this is a perfect job for your new ultrasonic cleaner!”...

Several years ago, I bought the unfinished restoration of a Wells 1000 bandsaw from a local GJ member. I was in the neighborhood getting a half dozen engines out of storage and had some room left on the trailer for the saw. Here we are at a local business borrowing the truck scale as I was...

Huh. Then why did it work for me?

These are in the house garage. She uses it as a warehouse so she doesn’t park anything inside and we have never needed more heat than what radiates from the boiler in the garage, so I never finished the low volt controls. I can manually start the zone pump and turn the fan on, but it just hasn’t...

I will take a pic of mine in a few. We need to see your near-boiler piping to better advise you, tho.