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I have a 3 car garage in central Florida and well it's Florida so it's hot. The house is newer construction (2013) so it's rather energy efficient except for the garage. I am thinking of trying to insulate the garage doors to try to cool the garage off a little bit. I was curious if anyone here...

I'm considering a career change and buying into a tool franchise. My father currently owns one in Oregon and he had been quite successful with it. I'm currently a mechanical engineer making decent money where I am at but I'm wondering if this new venture might be right for me. I'm not really...

So this isn't for a garage it's for my house but I was hoping some people might have some advice/insight. Long story short about 8 months ago we contracted with them to remove all our downstairs flooring (450 sq ft of tile and 1150 of carpet) and install 9X48 plank tile. They started work 3...

My wife and I are in the middle of replacing our entire downstairs with plank tile. We have had some issues with the tile vendor and getting replacements for our broken ones we had so the entire downstairs is done but 1 room. As we were putting furniture back we started to notice stuff was...

So I have a 15" radius on my garage door currently and I'd like to draw it as close to the bulkhead as I can get it. Is it as simple as finding a larger radius or does the spring and everything have to be moved? I'm trying to create as much clearance as I can for a lift at some point and I just...

Alright so I've called around 10 different landscaping companies and have gotten maybe 1 quote back (at $10,000) so I've determined I'm going to have to do this myself, although I didn't want to. The scope of the job is 1) Remove sod around 88 feet wide x 10 feet deep. I was planning to rent a...

I am looking to raise my horizontal garage door track at close to my bulkhead as I can. It's only like 5" but it could make or break some things I'm planning. I was hoping to simply install a larger radius to accomplish this but I was curious if anyone has done this before.

Alright I know this has been discussed a lot and everyone has different opinions but I'd like to hear from people who own 4 post lifts. I'm doing the crazy thing and attempting to stack 2 cars in my residential garage of my 2 story house. I have a relatively low ceiling height (9' 8") but the...

I'm in the planning stages of putting a 4 post lift in my garage so i can stack 2 cars. The problem is it's a matter of inches to make it work. I am slightly worried about a car hitting the ceiling and damaging the car. I've seen those crush safety bars that will shut power off if they are...

I am a newbie at welding and I have an eastwood 175 welder. I need to weld the oil pickup onto the pump for my 1972 chevelle. Can anyone advise me to where to start wroth the settings on the welder to attempt this. I don't know what material the pump is. Looking to use Flux core write. Thanks...

I have an eastwood 175 welder and i need to weld some .035 al to some .060 al. I was hoping to get ot done this weekend which means all the welding shops are closed so i cant TIG weld it. My question is if i do light tack welds on a low amperage setting can i get there with my welder or am i...

Ok everyone I have come to terms with the fact that I will never be able to build a second garage (HOA and City) and there is no way the wife will want to move so I am stuck with my current 3 car garage. I am trying to find a way to make it more functional. I like to work/restore my cars and...

Anyone here run the Optima Digital 400 or Digital 1200? I have a red top in the chevelle and a couple times it'd gotten deeply discharged and it was a pain to bring it back. I'm thinking about buying the 1200 but I wanted to see what other people thought.

Ok so this isn't garage related but I'm hoping this is still a good place to ask. In about a month my neighbor and I are going to do some landscaping work to include planting ~20 Palm trees and installing some french drains in the yard. We have decided to rent some equipment to make our lives...

So I have posted a question before about my driveway and everysaid it was normal. Well I'm back with another one........ I have included pictures below but my driveway is 6 months old (brand new house) and it appears as if the top layer of it is washing away. I can wipe my finger on it and get...

My driveway is less than 4 months old and already has a good sized crack across is. Is this normal or is this improper prep? The crack sprawls about 3/4 of the way across the 3 car driveway

I have some stains on the driveway of my brand new house (3 months old) and my wife and I started to pressure wash them off and noticed the concrete was flaking away. Is this damage we did or is there a problem with the concrete? We were using the 15 degree nozzle. I will post pictures later...

My wife and I recently signed paperwork to build a new house with a production builder. We were picking out cabinets and stuff today we were asked if we wanted to fill the concrete block exterior walls with foam. I hadn't heard of this before and was curious what everyone's thoughts are on it if...

What is the standard height of a garage ceiling? I am asking becuase my fiancee and I are looking for our next house for when I graduate college. We have looked at stuff with property to build a shop on but can't find anything we like. We don't have the money to be able to buy and build so we...

So I am looking for some advice for someone who might have been in the same situation. I own a house with an HOA that's supposedly "active" recently I have been questions where the money goes since I have lived there over a year and have never seen a budget nor heard of a meeting or anything. I...