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I have a 2-car garage with 2 single car size doors. They are single piece doors that lift up, not sectioned doors that roll up on a track. Currently, the locks are just a slide bolt on the outside with a padlock (one per door). It would be nice to have a lock with a key that matches the house...

The wiring in my garage is from the 50's, has no ground wires and needs to be re-wired. It's a detached garage, spaced about 6 feet from the house, but is connected to the house by a small roof section over the doors going in the house and garage. The attic in the house is connected to roof...

I've been reading a lot on this topic and am getting a little bit of conflicting information. I'm wanting to insulate my garage which has a 2x4 rafter roof and no ceiling. Rafters are 24" on center. The previous owner insulated most of it already with fiberglass batt insulation, no air channel...

So I'm building a shadow box for a project that I will leave unexplained so it can be a surprise. I don't have a table saw, so I had to come up with a way to make multiple steps in a piece of wood to hold the glass and the back. I decided to go with 3 pieces of 1/4" MDF layered in such a way to...

The front corners of my garage have sank down several inches, causing a large gap under the garage door on each side. My original plan was to cut a wedge of wood to attach to the bottom of the door to fill the gap, but when I tried that today, I found out the block of wood hits the top...

Some of you may have seen in my other thread about my garage door gap, the walls of my garage were bowing out several inches and the boards running across to each wall were tearing out of the studs they were mounted to. Temp fix Pulled WAY away. Temp fix This one split the stud in...

I'm renting a room in a house along with a detached garage. The garage is currently powered by a single 14/2 wire, which is not adequate for my needs. I have a 110v mig welder and with light/radio/whatever else might be on, welding will be a challenge. The garage is wired via conduit from a 15...

Rental Garage Rehab Edit: Changed the title and am now posting about all my encounters from this garage. Just moved into a new place (rental) and have a bit of a problem. Obviously the issue is the corner of the slab has sunken and created the gap on each end. The house is a 30's era...

I'm wanting to add a 30A outlet in my garage to use with my 120v welder. The welder supposedly draws 20A max, but I figured having a bit extra capacity isn't a bad thing. I plan on putting the outlet directly below the electrical panel so I don't have to chase the wire very far. My question...

I have a capacitor start/capacitor run AC motor (two capacitors) that I am putting on my air compressor. Only problem is, it turns the wrong direction. From looking online, it seems all I need to do is reverse the starter circuit and it will reverse, but I tried and that didn't work. The motor...

I've been reading up on GearWrenches and how at some point they switched from being made in Taiwan to China. I have a full set of wrenches from them that I got several years back (not sure exactly when) and was curious as to where they were made. I read about the letter stamp the wrenches have...

A little background first. I'm renting an apartment with an attached garage. The downstairs is always super cold while the upstairs stays warm due to the thermostat being upstairs (forced air heater). If I heat the garage with a small electric heater, the entire downstairs is significantly...

Hello, my name is Andrew. I'm 26 and an avid car/tool enthusiast. I'm currently living in an apartment, but luckily I have an attached 2-car garage. It's not huge, but it gets the job done. I'd some day like to have a detached shop, but right now it isn't in the cards. Shelving and bench when...

A while back I bought an old air compressor that was built into a shopping cart. The compressor pump I later found out is from an AC unit from the 60's (from what I can tell). Very heavy built, made in USA. All the gaskets were made from lead. The very dirty air "filter". My design...

Just picked up this SO KR557 box for $150. Made in 1983. I plan on sanding and repainting it, but can't figure out how to get the trim off the corners. There is pop rivet at the bottom on each side that I removed, but the trim still won't come off. It will slide up and down a bit, but I can't...