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Found this in my driveway after what sounded like the neighbors setting off fireworks last night. The sound definitely didn't come from my driveway, but just over 100ft away. It looks like something else that goes bang. Just wondering if anyone has experience with something like this.

So my water neutralizer drain has this funny plastic fitting on it before it dumps into the main, along with the washing machine drain. There's a window in the fitting that I guess is there to watch the water coming out during the regen cycle. Somewhere this fitting started leaking and water...

Last spring I had a 32 x 50 pole barn built with insulation and liner panels, insulated floor with PEX but no boiler installed yet. That fall/winter I found small puddles on the floor and base trim in front of the posts along one wall. I pulled some panels back from the wall and the...

I've noticed my gas baseboard furnace clicking without running. I realized it would stop doing this when I turned one of the 2 thermostats off, basement is the one in question here. I tried new batteries in the thermostat and tightened the screws holding the wires into the thermostat wall...

I have an 18 foot car trailer and I'm used to towing a third gen Firebird so I have the big tie downs and T hooks (and axle straps that I don't typically use). Just wondering what the preferred tie down points are and if I need to get different hooks.

I read a few months (maybe up to a year?) ago that liftmaster had issues with doors opening at random times. Does anyone know if these issues have been fixed and new units are trouble free? Is there another option? Also, where is everyone buying theirs from? I see a few on Amazon but tend...

I've been looking for a cool old vise for the past few months, but I'm cheap and busy. Today I stumbled across an estate sale and bought this vise and Kennedy 520 tool box. I'm kinda of kicking myself since a guy there pointed out a pipe jaw that he thought went with this vise, but it didn't...

Has anyone had good luck repairing or replacing the air lock valve on a Bendpak 4 post lift? Mine is leaking, I tried tightening the collar around the push button (and it threaded in a good bit) but then the button wouldn't allow any air through when pressed! Bendpak wants $40 for a new...

My 32x50 floor was poured in late May and now (5 months later) I've noticed a small crack forming. It's probably 6" long and hairline, for now! I'm not necessarily the type to panic over a minor crack. HOWEVER... the crack starts and ends at saw cuts. One end of the saw cut is just inside an...

So I have a Craftsman compressor from 1997 and I haven't been the best about draining the tank... mainly because I keep damaging the flimsy drain they put on these things. This time I really buggered up the drain. To the point where it's in multiple pieces, some of which are in the tank! Is...

My new garage is mostly done and it's time for door openers. It's 32 x 50 x 12 with 2 doors on the gable end, 10 foot and 16 foot wide, both are 10 feet tall. I had the doors spaced 2 feet from either end of the garage with 2 feel in the middle. I new I preferred a jack shaft opener and read...

I've started laying out my PEX and hung the manifold on a girt. Should I run the PEX from the floor up to the manifold in the wall (surrounded by insulation) or along the face of the wall? I'm going to have batt insulation with liner panel. I figured there will be a hole in the liner panel...

So this is what I'm left with after putting 2" of rigid foam vertically everywhere around my pole barn. My floor will be 6" thick. My plan is to taper the insulation down to 1.5" on the face the girt will cover. But I'm not sure what to do about the part the door is hitting. Do I taper it...

I'm assuming this shouldn't happen, but did I fix it by just stepping on the soft parts and leveling it out? I will say that this is on the wet side of my garage, it faces up hill and I don't have gutters yet (to be installed next week) and it rained a ton last night.

I'm getting ready to do my foam insulation for radiant heat and the question came up of where to put the vapor barrier. I understand that the foam insulation can be taped together as a vapor barrier, but that may not be the preferred method. Typically the vapor barrier goes between the stone...

Are these 2 close enough that it doesn't matter which one I use? Foamular250 vs. Kingspan for under slab insulation. I will be stapling my PEX down to it. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kingspan-In...tion/999972968 https://www.homedepot.com/p/Owens-Co...lar250%7D%3Aqu

Today I noticed that the safety beam on my opener doesn't stop the door from closing when you break the beam. It's a craftsman 139.54920. I can hold my hand directly over one of the sensors and it only stops the door every other time or so. This is also the door that seems to not remember...

I'm almost ready to buy my supplies to heat my 32x50x12 pole building. It will be insulated with R19 batts in the walls, blown in R30 for the ceiling, and R10 Foamular250 under the slab. I have quotes from a few PEX supply houses (in order of cheaper to most expensive): 6 loops of 1/2", 12"...

Does anyone have a PEX stapler for sale. My building is going up in the next week or 2 (much sooner than I thought)! I figure a Garage Journal tool rental would be appropriate for this since I doubt many of us would use the stapler more than once in our lives. Also, who is the go-to company...

I want to buy a used PEX stapler for fastening the PEX tubing down to foam insulation. Shipping will be to 07828.