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I had my pad poured last year, 30' x 40'. I looked at slab vs foundation and is was 1/2 the price and the most common method for unattached residential garages around here (northern ontario). My patio and half of my driveway are poured concrete and they are crack free and have not heaved...

Most lead acid batteries are charged to a certain voltage, I think 13.7V is safe for most applications. Your battery will say, or google it. So measure the voltage of the battery occasionally with the charger off and then when you get the voltage you want (13.7V for example) disconnect the...

Use a sealer or paint. If you ever sell your house, not sure how many people want an oil soaked concrete pad. Plus the oil will eventually seep into the ground, small environmental concern. Just mho.

If your garage floor is slightly sloped towards the door then cut a small kerf in the concrete under the door like said before. If your floor is flat, then cut the kerfs the whole way from where the water is collecting to out the door. If you have a pretty floor and want to protect it then get...

Not much to update. Pad was poured, I am happy with it. Will post photos soon. Still need to pour curb then build garage. I am in between jobs at the moment. I figured this was a possibility so did not want to be jobless with money owing on my garage build and that is why it has taken me...

Depends what you are doing with the attached garage. If it is just for holding cars then 30 feet is deep. 36 feet wide should be OK. What vehicles are you planning to store? What else are you planning to use this space for? Storage? Work bench? Need more information, but it is truly...

You should have all you need. Non-contact voltage tester is nice, but not needed. Need screwdrivers (phillips, flat/standard if you are in The States, Robertson if in Canada), wire strippers/cutters, multimeter and I use a lot of paper to sketch out circuits that do not work or that I am...

Thank you very much for your reply. We are using a Stanley extra long (11" overall) with electrical tape on the shaft. We have done this to many screwdrivers for 20 years, but wondered if there was a proper tool out there. I really like the heat shrink tubing idea. edit: it is for 125VDC...

Looking for a extra long (longer than 4" shaft, 8" overall) insulated screwdriver. Must have 1/8" flat/regular cabinet tip (non shouldered). The regular ones will do, but the extra length will make it easier to work on the terminal blocks in the small deep cabinets that we access at work. I...

I know you asked about long breaker bars, but there are a lot of options for high torque removal of fasteners and precisely torqueing them back on. We have most of what was mentioned at our facility and I have used it all at different times for different situations. Slug wrenches, long breaker...

First paragraph, thinking is correct. But for example the 1HP pump will pump 3x as much volume as in a given time vs. 1/3HP. If the pumps turn on every 10 minutes and the 1 HP pumps the pit out in 1 minute and 1/3 HP takes 3 minutes, then the 1 HP will cycle every 11 minutes and the 1/3 HP...

Well slow half day on Monday. They dropped off more crushed gravel and started making the forms out of 2x12's. Today they finished most of the gravel and started digging out the footers (club foot). Was raining today, so all pictures from the back and side doorways.

I will get more and better images posted after work on Monday. I see that it is lacking enough images to give any idea of layout. But I have a question for anyone that has built a garage up North. Did you, or is it common practice to pour footers below frost? monolithic pour? rebar? I am...

Shed at the back is 14 x 16 and will be used for patio furniture, bicycles, sports stuff, lawn equipment, gardening supplies and anything else that doesn't belong in a shop ;) . There will be roughly 20 feet between back of garage and shed. A previous owner built a lean-to off the back of it...

End of Day 1. Removed some trees on left side and removed old curb on right side. More to come on Monday. There is a string up for the placement of the pad. Hard to see, sorry. I have now uploaded images to photobucket, but I guess they auto size your images on upload. Any options to...

Finally becoming real. Planned to have a "shop" for almost 10 years. Been planning to build for 3 years. Hopefully before winter hits it will weather tight so I can work on interior stuff. Here is the best before shot I could find, this is when we bought the property 4 years ago. Garage...

Best bet would be using a leather cleaner like Lexol or anything meant to clean leather. I have hand washed with a mild dish soap before. Then coat in your favorite leather grease, oil, conditioner. Let sit and wipe off the excess. Wash inside and out. Leather is just skin that no longer...

Yes. Would need more details, make and model of compressors and any aftermarket regulators, pressure switches? what pressure do you want at the tools? Make sure each compressor has its own 120 V elec circuit. Then would just need to set up the pressure switches to start one at a higher...

I think that is a great deal. A quick google search shows it as $330 list and $190 sale price in the Summer 2013 catalog. Canadian dealer and price.

I use 4.5" discs on my 5" grinder. I only use a couple a year and too lazy to find 5".