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I have a 20A circuit for exterior lighting. I was checking it the other day, and found it dead. Looked at the breaker, felt it, and it was in place, not tripped. Fiddled around with no results. Went back, turned off the breaker, turned in back on, and now I have lights. I am thinking...

We had a few wells on the farm. I watched the guy dig the last one. He used a clamshell bucket on a tracked crane--I really can't recall what that thing looked like. Anyway, he starts the hole, gets down a little, then puts down some pea gravel. He sets the first drill casing tile on that...

I took out footings for our old garage that looked a little like your pictures. I broke the slab up by hand and small jackhammer, and loaded it in a dumpster by hand. It helped with the seething anger I was dealing with at the time. But I couldn't touch the footings. So, I rented a backhoe...

Large diameter PVC, capped, painted decorated whatever. Filled with dry sand. Sturdy enough to protect in most cases, but not so much as to tear up a vehicle too bad. Cheap to replace. Either that or cast iron.

Some of the openers do not have a provision for a hard wired open/closed switch. Possibly a security issue, as that would be pretty easy to break into.

Opener is the Elite Miracle One. Lock is on the right side, the big blob on the edge of the gate. http://www.operatordepot.com/swgor2.html

This was done in 2009. Not cheap, but I can't find the paperwork on it. I have adjusted the limiters once, need to try again. I have replaced the batteries once since then. The solar deal might work pretty good, since the oomph for the works comes from the batteries. Not sure if you were...

Looks better than the one I did..... The broom is your friend when you are an amateur concrete guy....

We have a guest room in the garage building. I use a 30 gallon electric. 240v, and I kept it on the 20 amp setting. Heats up quick enough--half a day is plenty, you can feel the water warming within minutes. Will run 2 showers easy. I had one of those old firehose heads on it but changed...

Preparation is your "warranty". Proper site prep including drainage, compacting, leveling, vapor barriers etc. Proper forming with the right size forms, level, secured. Jigs in place for strongwall or wiring or plumbing. If you know you will have stuff coming through a poured stemwall or...

Lots of used retail stuff out there, not much of it like that stuff. My guess would be going to Harbor Freight on a sale day with a 20% coupon would yield better results. google "used store fixtures" or "used nut and bolt store fixtures" or similar for your area. (I did) Lots to look at...

x2 on that one: "....if you don't want it to crack, leave it in the truck...." He was right.

Flush twice and wash your hands for 20 seconds. What about the pipe liner solution? A smooth liner will help the situation. https://pipelt.com/pipelining/

Rolled up and in containers in the truck. Usually.

We put 5 Sola Tubes in when we remodeled in '02-'03. Had one leak due to the water washing up the side in a heavy rain storm. Glued down a rain diverter, problem solved. They do get cobwebs in them, but are easy enough to open up and clean. So far, knock wood, they are holding up in...

Speaking from painful personal experience, 20' is not deep enough.....

Steel or well braced wooden box/rectangle can also be used as shoring. Just as with the tube suggestion above, and just as digging a well, you excavate inside the box undermining the walls of the box. It will sink and give you room to work inside. If that sand is dry you could even excavate...

I think you need an engineer to assess the soil and suggest some kind of augmentation to firm it up. I am thinking something like mortar mix, fence post concrete, or something similar. Also, driving pipe, augering out some sand, drop some gravel in the pipe, pull the pipe. Repeat until you...

I pulled my asbestos covered heater ducting back in '97, and paid to have a licensed guy haul it away. Most of the outfits I called wouldn't do it or gave me some **** lecture. But that guy was cool. But what a joke. These two dudes show up in a cargo van with a piece of clear plastic taped...

I would rather have the doors face the house. Do you have a driveway out the front of your property?