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Each yard will take 5-6 wheelbarrows, depending whos on the business end of it. So thats 75 to 90 trips. If they have a crew of 4 or 5 guys slugging it out, sure. But with the wet clay I can see your concern. Would likely need planks or plywood.

Yes, light from a window or door that rakes along the wall is very unforgiving and highlights all of your mistakes :) ! One thing I learned after many renovations is to finish drywall with light (not too bright) raking the side of the wall you are finishing. And if you can afford the time...

I have a Napoleon, solid grill. Its around 10 years old now, just ordered new burners which were finally starting to go. Question for those who have SS bar grates - how do you get them clean? The tops are fine from regular scrubbing, but at the ends and bottom of the bars, its caked on pretty...

The other thing to consider when changing wire size is the box fill calculations.

looking good! For the air bubbles, just go over them with a small bit of mud to fill them in. They can be caused by mixing the mud too much, but some bubbles are going to be normal. Typcially you only need to do this on the last coat. I'd just focus on areas that are bad, and in the most...

+1 on sticking with 12 volts. Get yourself a few packs of these or similar, and do away with the inverter. The losses in the inverter will be more energy than what the bulbs are consuming.

I agree, but when no one offers up cash to buy them, their only option is insolvency. There should be legislation that forces cloud based companies to have provisions to 'keep the lights on' for consumers for a specific length of time once they are given an End of Life notice.

I'd just size the conduit you are running for the 120 circuits, and then add a second conduit for the 240 when you're ready to add them. You might find later you change your mind on location of the 240 V receptacles, or may never need them.

Might be overkill for what you are looking for, but you can get power consumption online from it. It also checks line quality, and 'learns' what devices are plugged in over time, and reports how much power each device is using. It needs to be able to connect to WiFi. No monthly fee from...

All the reason to do a home hosted system like HomeSeer and Zwave devices

just bought 60' of 1/8" x 5" flat, and 24' of 1 1/2" square tube. Just over $300 so thats almost $2/lb. Delivery $35 + $25 fuel surcharge after that. Ouch that thing is pointy!

If the cooling requirement is temporary and you are planning to put a ceiling in anyway, just go with the ceiling (you mentioned plywood). Install gable vents at both ends in the attic and you should be fine. I wouldnt insulate if its going to be temporary and just for furniture - I'm sure you...

Yeah as a backyard mechanic I think the most I've seen is the Honda crank pulley bolt - torque to ** foot lbs (forget target, but around 100), then tighten another 60 deg. Fine going on, not so much when coming off.

Wow! what the heck kind of nut needs 1100 ft lbs? (I'm a bit of an amatueur wrencher and have gotten by with a 150 ft.lb torque wrench lol)

Got one of the switches installed this week (controls the driveway light post). Adding the Zooz controller to HomeSeer was pretty straightforward. Getting the controller to recognize the switch was another story. Put the switch into 'inclusion' mode, but the controller failed to recognize the...

A closer photo might help, but I think I get what you are looking at. An 1/8" seems like a lot for it to be misaligned. I'd be concerned with premature wear of the rollers as they bump into the edge of the track. Plus that must make a racket as each door roller goes by it? If it was something...

Yeah when its cold, it takes f o r e v e r to dry, like days. I remember reading somewhere that its harder on the drywall paper and leaves for a weaker joint. Get a fan blowing in the corners, this helps speed things up.

That is a great idea, cheap and simple. Could use a proximity switch like the one in the link, and any old DC wall-wart transformer to power the lamp. https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Littelfuse/59140-1-S-05-A?qs=QQJxVsr8EGaJPEAr92GmmA%3D%3D

there's other systems like z-wave or zigbee. In order to get the most of the responses, what is your situation and what exactly do you want the monitoring system to do for you? How do you want to access the system?

Received two of the Zooz 700 series switches and z-wave hub today! Will get to try them out on the weekend...