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I am not understanding enough about your soffit venting. It seems with open ceiling you should be able to get on a ladder and look where roof meets wall and see if there are openings into the soffit. If there are then all you need to do is get some idea of how much cross sectional area is...

Re: Air seeping the sill plate And you can do from inside unless you have baseboard or something blocking. you are not trying to fill the space under the sill plate, just cutting off the path of air into the building. Air space under the plate could be a good thing as long as it cannot get from...

I assume you are talking about attached garage with attic space separate from house attic. Soffit vents are easy to install and that part is done if the soffit air is connected to the attic air. The attic air then needs a path out some roof vents or gable end vents. In my experience the attic...

FWIW I have been amazed at how much easier a pull through a 45 is than a 90. I redug a ditch to allow use of a 45 in a place there had been a 90. wow what a difference. Even two 45s separated a bit is easier than a 90. I don’t know that to be true in all size combinations. Just saying if...

Definitely seal along bottom edge. I was amazed a few years ago at what happened in a bug infested shed with hardboard siding when I sealed up with foam the bottom gaps. no more bugs crawling around in there. On my new 24x38 build I sealed mostly with caulk and bigger gaps with foam along bottom...

What power drill is adequate for drilling 1” holes with no pilot hole?0

Thanks for this information. Perhaps you have used and could advise me on how far below grade I should apply the flexcoat should go. Does the whole vertical surface need it or just a few inches below grade and beyond UV?

WOW every response was either encouraging or informative. nadogail and Richard Cranium I am a "any is better than none" even if it gets a bit ridiculous. Just not too ridiculous. matt i, the termite thing is why i proposed 8" band leaving about 2 in exposed of the 10 in of vertical concrete...

I am getting ready to back fill around garage and wonder if a 2 foot band of 2 in eps foam board laying horizontally around the perimeter buried under about in of dirt against a 8 in band of the 2 in foam board standing vertically against the sides of the pour. That would leave about two...

I stapled 4' radiant barrier from the top plate up to the roof vent. It was just wide enough to span the trusses for a good staple. This was before installing ceiling. If you can get house wrap in there that would work if you have blocking to keep insulation from falling into soffit, it is...

Thanks for that information, -- I hadn't researched larger welders power requirements yet. I was just wanting to be sure I didn't need to run a separate welder circuit taking advantage no dry wall just yet.

That is exactly what I did but I hesitate to mention this because I never figured out for sure if it met code. What code reading I did seemed to be focused on protection so I made an effort at protection. Inspector glanced into the attic area, still uncovered, and barely took notice of 6 cables...

Thanks, it sure makes sense, just surprised I hadn't come across it. Maybe there are not many who have the 50 amp RV outlets available. Anyway, does anyone know of a source for such an adapter? Holy cow!! googled it and found a number of sources, Home Depot for one. Price $64. Think I will cut...

I have just run the 50 amp RV receptacle and am mindful that I want to upgrade my Hobart 120V mig welder to a more powerful model requiring 240V. But as I was considering what to run for the future welder I realized that the RV receptacle is located at the same location I would want a welder...

Amen, you have to be especially careful to not allow cable to be pulled further than you want. It is very difficult to avoid having this happen when pushing cable into the box. I have learned to have the cable stapled down such that what ever gets pushed into the box can stay. If the cable is...

Wouldn't that just be our 4 wire un bonded subpanel system without the ground rods? Or do they bond the neutral and ground? I did a 50 amp subpanel in a tool shed last year and never got around driving the ground rod. It is laying there under the building next to the conduit riser just staring...

From a purely resistive considerations I would not think twice about the ramifications that would come from connecting to as many ground rods I could find. Just being silly though, enough is enough. But in the case of lightening behavior, there is not enough theory to precisely predict what...

That's it. Turn the bar horizontal and tighten, the dimple stops it from further rotation as you tighten everything. And makes for easy wiring but I still feel it is a bit chinchy as to its open door for loose grounds. I like the idea that the ground rod conductor is securely attached in a bar...

Experienced electricians no doubt would have done that in a heart beat and I had a couple spares on hand. I was just looking for the story about those 10 short bars in the package attached with one screw as though that was intended by Square D for all the equipment grounding connections in this...

My simple mind sees it that way, - ground is a common connection point, but there is resistance and the 12 feet of copper wire connecting the two grounding systems could awaken dragons there. I think of lightening as some kind of spook and I do not mess with it. High frequencies act in ways far...