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Last spring i I came across a like new, barely used, Modine HSB24 unit heater for TWENTY dollars. It was at a customers house I was doimg work for. The guy guts houses and scraps the metal, and he tore it out of a house. His wife was home and called him for me and he only asked $20 for it. I...

I currently live in a raised ranch In upstate NY. These types of homes are inherent for poor storage. No basement, little to no attic space, and poor floor plans. We have made do for the 11 years i’ve been here but i recently acquired a new vehicle which l prefer garage kept at all times...

Need to replace 8 windows on my house. It must be done before this winter. I could easily take out the old replacement windows and pit in my own. The sizes are standardized and the Pella 150 series windows i plan on ising are in stock and easily available at my local lowes. The difficult part...

A couple years ago i purchased a 5k watt, 240v electric heater for my garage. Installed, i think i have $120 in the entire install. $75 for the heater, the rest in water tight fittings, wire, and a breaker to my panel. 2 months ago i had my natural gas boiler replaced. With its replacement, i...

Good morning. My girlfriend and her daughter have some issues with remembering to hit the garage door button while driving away to close the garage door when leaving the house. I came home early from work on Christmas eve at 1pm and the one door was up. Showing off my recently restored 13”...

Purchased 1976 Starcraft SuperSport yesterday. I’ll be doing a full restoration. This’ll be my 2nd Starcraft restoration. The green boat is mine. In the first 2 pics, you you’ll see that there is aluminum trim on the boat dashboard. These are images i found online. I am sure that this trim was...

The hot water baseboard boiler is as old as this house. 47-48 years old. It’s a National boiler. Cast iron. Made in America. Works fine. But getting scary old. My hot water heater is now 27 years old. Yes, natural gas water heater, ServiceStar band, 40 gal, 27 years old. Barring a major change...

sold For sale is a 1947 Craftsman 1/2hp drill press in mint sweaty condition. My hobby is restoring old american iron. I restored one of these down to nut and bolt, only it was a bench model from 1946. Very little differences. I decided i wanted the floor model so sold the bench model. I was...

With the help of several threads here, i installed a Fujitsu minisplit for the east side of my raised ranch last spring. 24k btu (2 ton)condenser, 18k btu for the living /dining room/kitchen, and 7kbtu for downstairs den and bathroom. I started a thread right when photobucket started their...

Hi fellas. Just checking on something. I have a 1971 raised ranch with the attatched 2 car garage on the lower right of the house. My brother in law is an electrician and put in a new square d QO main panel for me to replace the old cutler hammer from 1971. It was old and had no spots left for...

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Welcome all to a thread i wanted to put together since the end of September, but have only found time to do so now. Last summer i wanted to epoxy my garage floor but ran out of warm weather. This summer i promised myself i would do it and again almost ran out of warm weather. I have spent...

I have this light fixture in the two front corners of my home. each bulb points down and forwards, and down and backwards .. so when i want to illuminate the majority of my lawn at night for security reasons, i just flip a switch and each of the 100+ watt incandescent bulbs and floor my...

I posted this on the one and only other website i visit, but i had to stop by and show this off here. I'm really batting a thousand on these auction scores. It takes time to find these scores, and patience is not one of my virtues, but it pays off. This grinder is in mint condition. THIS...

I googled them and searched amazon. Only one viable option came up and most reviews say the magnet is very weak. It's a long red one on amazon. I have a metric and standard nut driver hex bit set from craftsman which came in a large craftsman mechanics set i purchased a couple years ago. To...

I was wondering something. This will help me size the mini split i plan on getting. How close in btu output are ductless minisplits in comparison to exactly similarly rated window units. I have a 12k btu window shaker that i HAVE to get rid of. So if i bought a decent quality ductless mini...

Thank you for dropping in. A guy i know just picked this up. Doesn't know what he has. These are the only 2 pics i have. I think it's a walker turner. Any info anyone may have would be great. Thanks!

Thanks for all who dropped by to read this. I have a question about Seer ratings for a well known brand and other lesser known or 'more economical' brands efficiency/seer comparisons. I need a 2 zone unit. A 9k and a 24k btu. So i'm shopping on our well known on line vendors website that i...

I plan on building a deck off the back of my raised ranch Early this fall. The property is ALL hard shale. Generally here in upstate NY, a hole is dug, sonet tubes are set inside 4' deep, concrete poured in, and you have your footers for 6x6's etc. My house is on hard shale. Before you advise...

I have a house which has all three major providers terminating on the side of my house. Verizon for local dialtone/dsl. (Has its own demarc box) Directv (dish on roof with coax running down house i to a small mess on side of house) Time Warner Cable now called Spectrum (no demarc, just messy...