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    Window Heat Pump / AC

    I live in Maryland and our average low temps in the winter are in the low 20's, with occasional periods getting into the teens. I want to maintain my garage temp at ~45F. Does anyone know if a window ac / heat pump (reverse cycle ac) unit would be capable of doing this? Most of the units I...
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    Sealing / Polishing Old Concrete

    I'm nearing the end of my garage rebuild and approaching the flooring section. The slab is likely from the 60's / 70's, so it is quite old and dirty. For the floor, all I care about is reducing the dust/dirt on it and that it is somewhat easy to clean up liquid spills. I don't care if it...
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    Compressor Motor

    So I picked up this compressor last weekend: http://cgi.ebay.com/Air-Compressor-Saylor-Beall_W0QQitemZ110216712564QQihZ001QQcategoryZ106436QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Saylor-Beall 5 hp, two stage, 80 gallon. Only downside was it came with a 3 phase motor. Is there any better place...
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    Insulation Recommendations

    So I just finished the first phase of my garage upgrade. I started with a 30 x 30 block building with 8.5 ft ceiling height, and have successfully raised the roof with 4 ft of framing so that I now have a "lift acceptable" 12.5 ft high ceiling height :). Now I need to move onto insulating it...
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    Raising Garage Roof & Concrete Q's

    New member to the forum here, already done quite a bit of searching and found lots of great info. We just bought a new house that has a 30 x 30 detached garage. It is a block building with a pre-fab truss roof, two single bay garage doors. Perfect for my usage EXCEPT the trusses are at 8.5 ft...
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