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I have about 7 yards of concrete that I need to get inside a basement. I have a walk in basement and I'm trying to think of the best way to fill the basement. The house is on a hill and in a remote area... trucks and pumpers are out of the question. We ended up moving a concrete plant on...

Hey all, been sawing wood for 11 years and figured with the amount of hardwood I have drying I would try and make things with it. So I made a few cutting boards and butcher block tables, charcuterie boards. A lot of people will tell me that I'm a rip off or $100 cutting board is a joke.. My...

Anyone have experience with just putting thinset on a wall and troweling? Thin set is just portland, clay, lime and polymer for binding to substrates. Reason I ask is I usually use lime but the only place close is canada and the cost is super crazy now. Let me know, we use hardie backer in...

Hey all, I have a bunch of tools and a small budget. I have a few tool boxes but some reason my shop get so messy that my carts are over filling and most if not all the tools end up on the floor. I have accumulated quite a bit and I'm at the point where I think I need some help. I hired a few...

Running wiring for a new home and the owner wants to see the lights.. problem is this home is 100% solar and the main panels and batteries and all that stuff is months out. I thought about making a male to male and hooking up the outlet that is there.. but I've never done that and usually only...

Hey all, working on a job where they put EMT in the concrete wall (16" thick).. Concrete filled all the gang boxes but I was able to chisel that out and the path was clear. Some how my helper was able to fish five romex inside of a 1" EMT pipe, since the rest is THHN. I can't for the life of...

Hey all, I'm building my own home which is post and beam. I'm trying to figure out the best layout for the electrician. Is it okay to lay EMT on top of the subfloor? The EMT will be raceways for lights and a TV. I was planning on MC wire but when I went to HD.. it just seems like it...

Long story short, the old (1979) 18hp briggs on my mower decided to let go of the valve seat. Normally you can push the seat back in and peen or drill a lock hole into the seat/block. Unfortunately this seat must have been loose for a long time as it honed the block ever so. My plan is to tig...

Does regular PVC cement stick to this stuff? Thinking about using it for rain water off my shop to back feed some water storage tanks. Some have the internal gasket.. some are straight piped. I'm assuming it will work, I just know the pipes are very chemical resistant so I really never tried it.

Long story short, building an ICF wall and running EMT inside the ICF. Outlets will come out of the wall and look like a regular house receptacles. Electrician ran a few outlets and then with the same wire went about fifteen feet and ran more outlets. This failed code, code enforcer said you...

Hey all, Looking to mix some good ol cement with sand/gravel to make concrete. The yard has a pre-mix of concrete, I'm just worried about the ratios for this. Typically I would mix one part Portland, two parts sand and three parts gravel. Would this mean I would mix one part portland and...

Hey all, We currently been living in a trailer that is right on the road where are property is located. We hired a electrician and all he needs is the service wire to the house and he can start to wire the inside and what not. My job is to lay conduit almost a half mile to the house on the...

So we're in a pickle, the water main from our source to the house was found today at the job site. Winter will be here in no time and frost will most likely freeze the line. The water main is 2" ID and hooks to a spring that flows 24/7. The entire spot for the house foundation was excavated...

Hey all, doing an ICF foundation and I'm hoping to get the footers in before the freezing cold. Thinking about this.. if I pour the footers do I risk frost heaving? Should I put the footer forms in place and shoot for pouring in the spring?

We're in the middle of building our new home and I went to our local hardware store and picked up quite a bit of electric conduit (1000ft). Now, the 220 actually goes to a spring house where we have a deep well pump that pumps water up to our house. There is a small stream in the way where the...

With several kids now, the wife and I decided the small home we live in is no longer sufficient. So were going from a 700 sqft home to a 1600 plus a full basement. Otherwise it would just be 1600sqft. We always wanted to put a house on the hill near the pond. Since we have a 9ft slope, I...

We have footers poured and are now putting the ICF together. I thought in my mind I would just pour the 8ft wall all in one shot but after reading the manual from the manufacture they want you to only do 4ft sections. I called them and they said only to do 4ft levels at a time. After the 4ft...

Hey all, scratching my head over this. Concrete guy wants 100$ per yard of concrete, looking at two yards for a 12" thick footing, 2ft Wide and 29ft long. I thought a yard was 3 ft? I'm confused.

I'm building a spring box and was planning to use concrete blocks. I was told not to use the cinder blocks as they're toxic and will pollute the water. I'm building a 5Wx5Lx6H box and will be used to trap a natural spring. The cinder blocks will be filled with concrete and reed bar to improve...

I have a spring fed box that supplies my house with water. The pump went bad (second one in the same year). I started to look at shallow well pumps and was wondering if I should take that route. The box is fed by a bubbling artesian well. It is a 15x15 box filled with 6 feet of water. Our...