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Looming at adding a door on west side of my building. Thinking about going with an outswing to help with the driving west rain and wind. Am I thinking of this right? Or will an outswing not be anymore beneficial for that and im just spending twice the money

Looking at a pressure washer for the shop. Looks like a lot of guys are starting to use ryobi electric PW and mounting them on the wall. Not familiar with electric units. Im coming from a 3000 psi gas unit. How will these perform. Obviously im not looking to remove mud from ranger/truck inside...

Has anyone purchased a land honor metal garage/shed. A local auction house has multiple brand new in the crate coming up on an auction. Looks to be 30ga cover sheets and 19ga structure. Wondering how well they hold up with a snow load

Shed is a 40x60x10. Just picked up a bit maxx 80kbtu but debating where to hang it. As seen in my crude drawing I have two walk through doors and 2 over head doors. My first location i was thinking of hanging in the corner at a 45* facing the opposite corner. Second location would be on the west...

Wanting to open up our staircase into our living room. Why would the top of the wall be double plated even tho the joist run opposite way.. the basement is not even supported. House was built in the 60s. I feel like everything has been overboard on things that I have found while working on...

We have a rheem furnace with a Econet smart thermostat. Currently thermostat is set to 67* and it is showing house is currently *69. Why would the furnace turn on and run. I just started noticing it doing this.

Has anyone used the any of the 110v 4.5-4.5 kw water heaters for there shop bathrooms? Looking at the cheaper ones under $200 on Amazon to get it here a little quicker. I have a single sink in the bathroom and a separate sink in the shop for washing hands and cleaning up after cleaning deer...

Is there a good way to overlap steel j channel about my garage door. Menards doesnt stock 16ft pieces so I woukd have to custom order a piece so was hoping g to avoid that if possible

Right now I have a 16ftx10 opening with a slider on the gable end of my pole building. I recently bought an overhead door. Door is 16x8. Do I need to put in a true header or can I build basically a false header to drop my outside steel down and attatch my spring and rails to on the inside

Trying to decide on hanging heater for my 40x60x10. R19 in walls and r38 cellulose in attic. Located in iowa. Was leaning towards the big maxx 125k btu. Eventually I will add a mini split down the road.

Thinking of adding a porch overhang on the Westside of my shop. I have a 16ft overhead door that has no vehicle traffic just opens towards my yard/ house and I will be adding a walk through door this fall. ( driveway to shop is on the eastside of shop) Im debating on how far out I should come...

Trying to connect 4in SCH80 to 3in SCH40. What is the easiest way to do this. Menards just seems to have 4inSCH40 to 3inSCH40 adapter

anyone know who supplies menards with their pro rib steel. trying to match whats already on my building and their special order shipping is insane. i was looking at 250$ to ship 9 pieces to the store. more then what the material cost would have been

So the local quarry doesn't carry "septic rock" they said they have limestone thats clean / washed with no fines. They recommend using 1in or 1.5in. Is theyre going to be any issues with going with clean road rock or the septic rock?

Im getting ready for my shop bathroom. This is how I planned on running the plumbing other then the vent off the sink to the stink pipe. The toilet and sink will be within a few feet of each other. Also is it a good idea to add a clean out on the exterior of the shed before a septic tank. The...

Looking to remove tin off of a pole building that was nailed on. Not wanting to damage the tin. Just need to remove to replace windows and walk through door. How well does the present nail remover from Amazon work. Looks like a knipper with a slide hammer

So I'm planning on putting a 5x10 bathroom in my shop. Would using the water heater for in floor heat under just the bathroom benefit anything ot would I be wasting time and money. The rest of the shop concrete is already finished, I just have the bathroom concrete left.

So 90% of my concretehas already been poured in my shop. I ha e a small section left ahere I plan on putting a small bathroom. I didn't have time to run water and drain lines last year before winter. My question is, none of my concrete has foam board going vertical down past the frost line...

So we have a late 60s 2 story home. We have 14 stairs from main level to the 2nd story. On one side of the staircase it's open for the first 5 stairs then the wall starts. On the other side it's all wall with out livingroo on the other side of the staircase wall. We are wanting to open te living...

Planning on pouring a 18ft wide slab in my shop soon. Trying to figure out where I'm putting my floor drain. I planned on cutting at 9ft. Will having a drain on the edge of my cut effect anything or would i ne better kff centering the drain on the cut line.... assuming I also still need to cut...