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So I may have worked out a compromise with my wife that allows to add a second floor to my garage. My property is sloped and my garage is built into the hillside, so that I would have ground level access to the first floor (my current garage) at the front, and ground level access to the second...

I was wandering around Princess Auto recently, and spotted a big 4 cylinder air compressor head in their surplus section, and it got me thinking... Nothing quite drives me to crapping my pants more than my little oil-less compressor kicking in when I least expect it; would it be reasonable to...

I keep seeing posts from y'all showing your latest cabinet and Lista toolbox acquisitions, and it drives me bonkers, because stuff like that never shows up around here. In the constant battle to organize my garage, I realized that certain storage methods are more trouble than good (they're...

I've put a partition wall in my garage that runs parallel to the trusses, and it's become apparent that the bottom chord of my trusses sags a little over an inch in the middle of a 17 foot span. It doesn't sound like much, but It becomes really obvious in contrast to the square and level framed...

I've been in my place for two years, and I've never had problems with water infiltrating my mostly-below-grade garage. At least I didn't think I had problems. The back and right side block walls were framed out 1" and covered with masonite, the left side wall is bare block. I didn't see any...

I have a 12x17 room at the back of my garage that I need to heat. The good: The room is surrounded on three sides concrete block walls, backed by dirt right to the top. The fourth wall and ceiling are well insulated. It's about as close to a cave as a person can get. I have around 12,000 pounds...

A local hardware store is selling 5/8" 'DensShield' tile backer board for $10 a sheet (looks like it's a discontinued product). As I understand it, this is drywall with fiberglass backing instead of paper backing. $10 isn't far off what I would pay locally for a sheet of 1/2" drywall. What are...

As I rapidly run out of room in my 18x24 garage, I'm starting to contemplate adding a second floor to it. My garage (30 years old, built without a permit) is almost entirely underground, it occupies a piece of hillside where the grade increases 8' from the level of the driveway to the level of...