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Would appreciate some input. Our house and driveway are 30 years old, in SE Massachusetts. The garage floor has settled a bit over the years; the asphalt driveway has settled more. We will probably need to do a new asphalt at some point, in the meantime, I'd like to address the gap between the...

I'm putting larger wheels/tires on my utility trailer (a SylvanSport Go Easy), and need to install spacers to raise the body of the trailer. The body is mounted to the axle via two 3x8 plates, with four 1/2" bolts in each plate, at the ends. I'm using 1" aluminum stock, already cut to 3x8. And...

I've got an older 3 ton Craftsman floor jack and the jack pad is pretty worn. I'd like to replace the saddle with a new one...either a 4-5" square or round saddle and rubber pad, with a 1" peg that fits into the jack to keep the pad in place. The assembly is two parts - the metal base (with...

Our house and asphalt driveway are both 25 years old. I don't know whether the driveway originally met up with the garage floor and has settled over the years, or whether this was an original "feature." There's a 1 1/2" deep gap between the concrete garage floor and the asphalt, and a 2 1/2"...

I got a quote from a local company, Next Level Concrete Coatings (New England) which seems to do a lot of polyurea floors. Sales person seemed to know what he was talking about, has been with the company ten years, wasn't pushy, and gave me a reasonable quote for our 21x22' garage. Floor is...

We moved into a new (to us) house with a nicely sized workshop in the basement. PO left me a ShopSmith table saw, router/router table, dust collector, air compressor, some other goodies. The shop has no outside ventilation. The walls are either below grade or interior. The rest of the basement...

Only single pane window in the house is in the garage, and now that I'm about to pull the trigger on a pair of Haas 2" insulated garage doors, I thought I should replace that window as well. The interior is finished and the exterior is shingled. I'd prefer not to install a complete new window...

Side entrance/service door repair or replace? House is 25 years old, with attached garage. We're replacing some rotted pine trim around the house, and the service door for the garage is on the list...the outside trim at the bottom of the door is rotting. It's a simple door, metal, half (double...

I recently had two air ducts installed that run through our attached garage. The first is PVC pipe that is part of a radon system. It runs up a closet next to the garage, into the garage, and then up into an unfinished attic above. The second is a sheetmetal duct for an HRV, covered with thin...

I had copper pipe run from an air compressor in my utility room to a drop in my workshop and a second in my garage, about 50 feet total. I've got five quick disconnect fittings, all connected with teflon tape in the joints, and two half turn drain fittings in the system. So here's the...