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I'm building a 20x45 foot patio in front of my house. The patio surface will be paver blocks or something similar, ie not concrete. I need to increase the elevation of the area by about 1 foot to reach the proper grade for the patio. The main floor of the house sits about 2 feet above grade...

My garage has sloped roof ends. We put a loft in the attic where the regular rafters are. At the ends, I removed the stringers between the end walls and the regular rafters and created a mini cathedral ceiling. We plan to hang bikes up in that space, hoisted up there by winches. How do I...

I recently needed to remove the trim around a door in our house to do some maintenance on the striker assembly. When I removed the trim board, I was surprised to find that the door frame was nicely foamed into the exterior of the house but on the interior side someone had tightly jammed batt...

I have a 22x31 garage that is bare studs on the inside. I'll gyproc it when it is all done. The garage houses the master panel for the property. It is 100A right now, but we plan to upgrade it to 200A. It feeds 2 100A sub panels in our house. I want to start wiring the garage so that we...

I have an existing 22x31 garage. It has 2x4 walls on 16 inch centers. I live in a cold northern climate. It gets to -20F for about 2 weeks every winter. I want to heat my garage with a forced air furnace to just above freezing for the winter. Should I build up the 2x4 walls with 2x2s so...

I always seem to be needing to lift big, unwieldy things. - Cummins 5.9 engines (1200 pounds). - Chevy big blocks engines. (700 pounds). - Bobcat bucket (600 pounds). - Lathe (1500 pounds). - Sheet steel (250 pounds) Right now all I have is a simple engine hoist. I've lifted and...

We have a large, newish (2008) house on a 50x120 inner city corner lot. In the back yard, facing the alley, is a 22x31 garage with 9 foot ceiling, 5/12 roof. I've added storage in the loft. Stucco exterior. I have a lot of tools. I'm constantly building things. I need more "man" space...

I'm looking for thoughts, comments, opinions and advise on an external storage setup for my steel and lumber. I have various lengths of steel, up to 12 feet long as well as common dimensional lumber, plywood, etc. that needs storing. We live in an inner city neighborhood with a small lot...

I want to put a drive through gate on my back fence, between a tree and my garage. The trouble is that I want to keep the walk through door that is right where I want to put the gate. I want it pretty much as wide as I can make it, for ease of backing in a vehicle or a trailer. Any ideas...

Hi. I have a 22x31 garage. It has a 5:12 roof and 9' 2x4 24" OC walls. Last fall, after much research, including reading many posts on this site, I built up the attic so that it could be used for storage. By "built up", I mean that I reinforced the existing structure so that the attic...