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    Blue vs Red Tuck Tape for vapor barrier

    Hello I just finished wrapping my new 30x40 this weekend and this week will be working on insulating and vapor barrier this week I was just told today that there is now a blue tuck tape thats supposed to be used for vapor barrier instead of the red tape Does anyone know the reason for it? in...
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    New woodstove options-canada

    with the first 8 inches of snow on the ground here in ontario I have realized that i have put off buying a wood stove for the 30x40 detached garage i built this summer. I was planning to put in a valley comfort VC95 and just got off the phone with the supplier and apparently something changed...
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    Wood heat in new build suggestions

    I will be building a 29x43 detached garage this spring. The footings and frost walls are there now, and in the spring the pad will be poured. I was thinking i might run lines for in floor heat in the pad since its cheap and easy to do, but i dont want to do a boiler for the garage because i...
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    have you installed Novik Stone or similar product?

    Its the house and not the garage but maybe someone will chime in I just purchased a heap of "Novik Stone" to install as a character wall going up the stairs in my house. Here is the product (also from menards) and i am planning to do exactly as they show in the picture going up the stairs...
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    how to hang heavy things in a garage??

    I would like to be able to hang individual items that weight up to about 400 lbs from the ceiling in our attached garage. Right now the celiling is drywalled, and i am assuming insulated as there are 2 bedrooms above the garage. I would like to SAFELY be able to hang a deer in the garage from...
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    Garage Pad Prep

    This fall i am going to clear some land for a garage that the pad will go down next year, then the build the following year I have already chosen the area and its higher than the surrounding yard, and will be close enough to the house to use the WIFI and can run underground power to it pretty...
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    Wireless light switch advice?

    Long story short is we took out a wall that had a switch in it. The options of where to move it ****, and **** worse. So i am looking at options to have a remote switch but know nothing about them. I want to keep the wiring where it is as it is easily accessed in the attic, so am looking at...
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    Determining if a wall is load bearing

    Hey, First post. I joined the forum because we just bought our first place and its got a 15x30 attached garage, and hopefully a detached 20x30 in the next 2 years. But first i need to get the inside the way the Mrs wants it. Between the kitchen, living and dining area there is a "L" shaped...
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