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A reminder for everybody....CHECK YOUR FIRE EXTINGUISHERS in the shop!! Had a panic/scary situation this morning. The image below is from a security cam in my office looking out into the bay I always work in. That's a jet ski ON FIRE....IN MY SHOP!! I had just put a BUNCH of work into...

Let me start by saying my son is on a shoestring budget and plumbing fixtures can get super expensive. He didn't really like the looks of any at the local big box stores so he started looking online. WELL.......now he has 2 tub/shower fixtures with accessories for about $100 each!! Seems a...

We've been down below freezing for a few days......pic of today's temps. I guess I forgot to leave the internet streaming and it's freezing up here and there today. I told my wife and we turned on all the devices and started streaming movies. That should get it flowing again.....

To those of you "in the know"........what type of fittings are preferred? I'm about to start plumbing my son's cabin and would like advice from you experienced folks. Expanded Compression Copper rings Oetiker clamps Which one????

My wife and I have been building our son's house. I'm playing architect, engineer, GC, framer, electrician, plumber, HVAC man,..........well, you get the picture. I wired my whole shop and have upgraded and replaced a lot of wiring in my old house. I have a good grasp on things and will have an...

OK, now that all you old farts are ready to recommend something.........EAT MORE FIBER!! Now the real story.......my cheapo Harbor Freight STOOL was never great for sitting on. But I decided I really need it to be SOFTER! I have a couple of these silicone grid cushions I've bought cheap at one...

This is on my son's cabin we are building. The porch is part of the house. I need to vent every other space between rafters, but how should I close this up? Would you just box out a bit into the porch roof and place soffit like the rest of the eaves? The porch roof will stay as is..........no...

I've got several of these popping up around the yard this year. Are they just random weeds or what? They don't look like anything else on the property.

I did not NEED another M12 battery. I NEEDED a power adapter so I could easily power up 12v auto stuff. I just got a cheap battery as well to try it out. Here is the OH-SO-handy adapter and the generic battery.

I was just wondering cause I've only ever called it a "pick". When you look up the the words origin, there is NOTHING related to "axe" in the origins at all! Only pick or pic. AND....there's NO AXE BLADE on it. There IS however, a tool we commonly call a mattock. The mattock is also commonly...

.......OK, not completely free, you will need to pay for shipping. But I get a good rate so shouldn't be too much. Old metal hammer finish toolbox for 3/8 drive tool set. I don't know what brand this was.......maybe SK or KD, maybe old Stanley or Popular Mechanics.......I really just don't know...

I need to finalize design of the "trusses" for my sons house and just thought maybe somebody on here has some basic software. Attached are points and dimensions.

This is NOT a garage but I hope it's ok. My son has been working and saving money since he was 17....he'll be turning 27 soon. He put in offers a couple different foreclosed homes but kept getting beat out. Too many flippers handing extra cash to the real estate agents I guess. He bought an acre...

......or at least it COULD be if they offered it!! So I had this thing down in the shop and it quit. I get real tight in my lower back and hamstrings and it's nice sometimes to just hammer the stiffness out and keep working. I took it apart and found one dead battery and a bad battery...

Wife and I are about to start building our son's house......he's paying us and helping. Basically it's a 30x22 footprint on a shoestring budget. Anyway I want your thoughts. #1-----roof sheathing over 2ft o.c. trusses. Will 5/8" osb be just fine or should he really spring for 19/32 Plytanium...

I'm planning and figuring supplies to help my son build his house. My head hurts looking at charts for glu-lam or lvl support beams. I just can't make sense out of the charts. upstairs is the master bedroom. The green lines represent 13ft long 2.5x12 I joists on 12" centers. The red line will...

OK.....I have a cable modem with wireless in the house. I have an ethernet cable directly plugged in and it runs with a phone line in conduit underground about 175-200ft into the shop. In the shop I have that plugged into a wireless router "access point" so the wireless stuff works in the shop...

A friend of mine got some stuff from an old building that will be demolished. He brought this by and gave it to me. I see some punches, a couple scribes, a Machine Shop book from 1941, some other doo-dads that I don't know the purpose of, a 1" mic, an angle gauge, a tap handle, couple ball pein...

We need to put down new carpet in the bedroom we just remodeled. SOOoooo many different brands and such. My limited research leads me to believe I want a nylon loop or berber with 10# padding to keep it from smashing down in a year or two from traffic. Just need to know what brands I should be...

I think I already know the answer but need to make sure. My house was built in the 50's. I've remodeled most of it and just finishing up a bedroom remodel. I left one of the light fixtures exactly where it was and it has been working fine. I went to install our new LED light fixtures and as soon...