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I sketched up a couple ideas for what I'm thinking. It will be anchored to the wall to prevent sway. I need to store tires, totes, miscellaneous junk lol. Snowmobile maybe(pending layout decision). Table saw, router table. Nothing extremely heavy, just stuff I don't use week to week. any...

I'm troubleshooting the exhaust fan in the kitchen. It quit working a while ago and I finally got a chance to dig into it. The fan has 4 speeds and only 3 years old. Speeds 1 and 2 quit working. The motor will kinda attempt to start on settings 1 and 2, the squirrel cage might twitch 1/8" of an...

Finally after years of planning and talking about it. Ive finally finished my solar collector. 19x12. Im estimating 35000btu/hr of heat gained.

So this is my 3rd time doing blown in attic insulation, first time was just a top up, 2nd time was small garage in town, no real organization to the madness, but didnt get coverage and had to buy more bags to finish end of garage. This time I carefully run string lines in attic to ensure proper...

Finally making progress on my shop, getting ready for poly on the walls and ceiling over the next couple days. Shop is 44x64 divided into 2 sections, a 24x44 section with a mezzanine, and a 40x44 section. Just thinking if theres anything else i should do before sealing the walls up. Already...

In our new house, we got a hip roof so the sheet metal guys vented the bathroom to the soffit. The flappers have been freezing closed not allowing air out. What can i do to remedy this problem?

Few days ago I found a deal on Kijiji and went and picked it up on my way from a trip to visit some friends. The sellers didnt really have any history on the boiler and got it a package deal for some other work they did for a heating outfit. Its a weil mclain cgi-4 which is perfect size for my...

Hey guys, Were in the middle of a new house build and i need some opinions on the equipment that was chosen for my house. I asked for an HRV unit for my house cause it will have a large moisture loading once the salt water aquarium is set up. The heating contractor recommended skipping the hrv...

I have a 24x28 garage with r20 walls and r50-60 in the attic and no windows. It has a 45000btu modine hawt dawg forced air unit that is always at 5° unless im out there then its at 12°. The wife opens the door 2x a day when she leaves and returns from work. A few years ago i bought a...

I want to finish the inside of my shop with white tin. But undecided on if i want conduit or hidden wiring. And since alot of old posts were ruined by photobucket can you people post up some photos of the finished electrical outlets and light setups done on tin please? Thanks.

Hello, I'm just trying my hand at some manual J calcs. My shop is 44x64x16, and will be divided into a 24x44x16 bay that I will heat full time, and then a 40x44x16 bay that will be heated when i need to be out there. This is in Alberta where it easily hits -40F. with a room target of 50F shop...

Were looking at building a new house next spring. 1820 sq ft, triple car garage, bungalow with blown in R60 roof, and triple pane windows. I told the builder to make it warm and he came back with 4.5" of closed high density spray foam. About R5.5/ inch. I think he said its like 6g less to do...

Hey guys, Im getting ready to start framing my 14x24 mezzanine in my shop. I feel like the engineer way over spec'd the mazzanine, but im no engineer so i cant argue what he has drawn. Im also not dealing with him again... bad service. Im planning on moving the stairs flush to the front for a...

Hey guys and gals, got a bit of a different question. Were building a new house next spring and i got a hair brained idea for a geothermal AC system. Were gonna end up having 1100ft of trench for waterlines from well to house, house to shop, and house to garden. I had a 10ft hole dug last week...

Hey guys, im working on planning my shop floor. I plan on getting a bendpak hd9 xl. I need the extra long cause ive got a project truck that has a 164" wheel base. Ive got a big shop, but I am putting the lift in the heated bay so im kinda short on room. The bay is 24 wide x 44 deep, but im...

Im in the planning stages for the heat of my shop that's under construction. I have been looking at all the boiler styles, and part of me wants to go old school simple and just put a lower efficiency cast iron boiler in. My question is, do people put these in for new construction or just the...

How does one calculate the btus required for an air exchange? Ive read that a room should have anywhere from .2 to 2 full air changes per hour. So does that mean all air is just exchanged throughout the building or that the air is exchanged with fresh air and old air is exhausted out? Im doing...

Im pretty sure there was an article posted a while ago that said it didn't really make a difference if the radiant heat pex tubing was stapled to the Styrofoam and at the bottom of the slab vs tied to the rebar and within the top 2" of the slab. Does that pex stapled at the bottom of the slab...

Im currently doing some research on the building techniques for when I start my build in a few months when the weather warms up. I currently have the footing and frost walls poured and backfilled for my 44x64 shop. I am pretty well accepting that I will be doing the majority of the work myself...

44x64 plans Im in the planning stages of a 40x64 stick frame shop. can I get a few comments or suggestions on these rough plans ive been drawing up.