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Oetikers are fine. The tool is about $60. I know this will tick off a lot of people, but I refuse to use sharkbites/PTC fittings. Refuse. For pneumatics, sure, that type of PTC seal works fine in most applications except for metered air or precision applications. But for liquids, never...

It depends on what you have and what your needs are. Growing up, we had a single bay garage that my father kept his car in. There was enough room for the generator, a hose reel, and that was about it. He had a small workshop in the basement, adjacent to the garage. That worked fine for...

I am working through insulating a 24x50x12, doing 1.5" polyiso w/ a 0.75" air gap and encapsulated closed cell bubble as an interior skin for now - debatably R28-32 range. All air gaps vent upward to the roof ridge vent behind the insulation for moisture control. I'm going to do the frameouts...

I'll see if I can dig one up. It's basically just a recessed/flush mending plate between top sections. Makes it so you can disconnect them, move things around, and then bolt them back together at the seams. I liked to mill pockets for them so everything is flush, but I have seen some people...

My unsolicited $0.02... Make it modular Get a plunge router, make a few rectangular pockets at disconnection points (clover or radius if needed), add some heavy duty threaded inserts, and a drop-in detail with counterbored/sunk bolt holes (preferably with a steel or bronze sleeve for...

We bought the earlier series of Govee "permanent outdoor" lights and most died within a year (this was 2022). Govee did honor the warranty painlessly, but we decided against reinstalling. We had our entire pool area set up with Wifi lights. Everything that wasn't installed well below an eave...

I watched Slickdeals like a hawk until Gladiator overhead cabinets were on clearance. I bought a pallet of them for $48 or so a piece, spent a weekend building them and put them up in the garage for power tools. The entire back wall of my 3rd bay is Gladiator cabinets. I don't like open...

That's my thought as well. The wall gap would continue up along the soffit and ceiling to ridge gap as a continuous air channel. I would also leave a very small controlled gap on the lower edge of the polyiso in each wall cavity (likely furring strip width again). Once it's finished, moisture...

I am stuck in analysis-paralysis for insulation and interior finishing options on our 24x50. Electrical is done. My original plan was: Insulation: PolyISO panels with a small air gap (furring strip width) from the metal siding, then skin over it. Wall/Skin: Debating between BlueTex...

Furry detection is easy. Just have a Wyze camera looking at the driveway and keep an eye out for Jeep Wranglers.

MaxJax allows the user to set the post span within a range, as long as you aren't too close to a slab edge. We did a full restoration of a '69 Mustang on a MaxJax MK6 in a single car bay. We have a 3 car garage but one bay is walled off from the rest, and that's where we chose to put the lift...

I'm usually pretty safe in the garage. I've been in engineering long enough to know how to imagine worst-case scenario for everything, so I tend to operate on the very safe side. The most dangerous thing I ever saw "garage-wise" was about 16 years ago. I went along with a friend who was...

My father made a few benches like that in my childhood home close to 40 years ago- all reclaimed materials (2x4s back when they were actually 2x4s and you couldn't count the rings from 10' away) from demolition projects. The home went up for sale again last month, I browsed the pictures for...

In addition to the other comments (which are correct), I'll state this: Heating and cooling uses air as the convection medium, but the heating and cooling of everything else is the actual goal. If you have ever lost your primary heat in the winter, you know how grueling it is to warm a house...

I considered it early in my career. Then, I talked with a few PEs. Engineering carries a severe level of scrutiny and lose/lose scenarios to begin with. Having a PE stamp just invites even more scrutiny. I decided against it. I've been in engineering for over 20 years- closer to 34 if you...

Well dang, that looks like good stuff! I have some 3pt equipment that needs touch-ups, might pick up some up! Thanks!

I did 12 bags in a wheelbarrow and said "screw this." Went to Harbor Freight, bought the cheap little red mixer, and did over 60 bags with that thing. Make sure to drench it with WD40 before and after use (rinse it thoroughly with water, wipe dry, then apply WD40), and grease the **** out of...

We're currently working on a 24x50x12 shop. My wife and I make a decent income, have no auto loans, extremely modest mortgage, but there's no way I could afford to do this without 90% of the labor being my own, especially with interest rates being absolutely stupid for the last few years...