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Couple questions for the plumbers please. This is the 1st floor of a 2-story building with two bathrooms, one stacked on top of the other. I'm stuck a little on the drain for the laundry. Photo taken from the bathroom, the other side is the laundry/mech room. Questions are: 1. Is there an issue...

I'm building an off-grid building in climate zone 7. I'm going to use an HRV to bring in fresh air and exhaust stale air. I'm wondering if its reasonable to use the exhaust feature of the HRV to pull the moist air from the bathroom and exhaust to the outside, thereby eliminating the need for a...

NO not the the band. :confused: I need some guidance on fresh air supply. I'm building an off-grid cabin that will be pretty air-tight. It will be well insulated, and it will be primarily heated by wood, with propane hydronic heated floor as secondary source. It will be built up north in...

I'm in the midst of designing and sourcing materials for my flat roof build in NW Ontario. I'm looking at a warm roof design - meaning the roof is not vented. The roof is approx 2/12 pitch. My question is related to insulation - I'm trying to get to about R60. I've looked at SIP's and am...

I know I'll get a variety of opinions here - I'm looking to dig a septic field in the spring and wondering if I can use a small 1.5t excavator to do it. Prices to rent a 3.5 ton are pretty significant and having a little machine around the property would be handy for a bunch of tasks. So, I'm...

Hi all, as the thread title suggests I'm building a heated slab, with insulation under and 6' out from the edge. The engineer doesn't specify a drain tile.... Questions: - Any experts think I need a drain tile on the outside (my gut says yes) - would it go on above the perimeter insulation or...

Question on sealing concrete floors. I just had a pad poured that is going to be our cottage. It's a frost protected slab, and the concrete surface will be our finished floor. I'm up in Canada and temps are cooling down a bit but still think I can get the sealing done according to the...

Hi gents and ladies, I'm diy'ing my FPSF. It's for a 24' x 28' x 16' heated space. I already have the B base rock in place and am getting ready to dig the footing. I haven't got this engineered and wasn't planning on it - I live where I don't need to go through the permitting process. I live in...

Good afternoon, I am installing a grade beam for a cantilever gate behind my garage. It requires two 16" piles, 6' down. I had those drilled last week when the ground was still frozen. The contractor used a 17.5" drill bit. Because the ground was frozen, the edges of the holes turned to...

Need some advise on fixing these steps. The previous owner painted over the concrete so they looked good for awhile, but now after a few freeze/thaw cycles the paint is peeling and looking bad. Not to mention the concrete underneath is flaking/chipped in quite a few places. I think I need to...

A friend and I want to put up a few walls in his unfinished basement. Here in Wpg we build houses with floating slabs, and I know there are a specialized framing details that go along with this. I get the bottom plate spacing etc but I have a few specific questions: - Is there an easy way to...

Hi everyone, So I have a pretty small shop (21'x21') and I feel like I'm always trying to put 10 pounds in a 5 pound bag. I wanted to build a mitre saw station that gave me as much capacity as possible, while being hooked into my dust collection. I also wanted to maintain a full 48" cross cut...

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Thinking about this for a project over the holidays while I have some time off. Anyone ever do this? Would like to make it fold out, and attach to the frame.

I have all Makita cordless tools. They are pretty much worn out from a life of being a cabinet maker but I'm also a hobbyist maker of things and as a result I'm also a taker-aparter-of things. Hence, I need an impact wrench. Don't want to go airpower because I don't have and don't really want a...

Looking for recommendation on gutter protectors. Are they worth it? What is a good design? Do you have a specific product recommendation given my situation? On one side of my house and garage there is a huge Black Poplar which drops tons of sticky seeds in the spring, and loads of leaves in...

Guys, I'm just fitting up my shop to work with metal. I see myself making things with smaller materials and I'm limited in my shop space so footprint is importance. My shop also doubles as a wood shop and gardening/bicycle storage I''ve decided I'm going to get a horizontal bandsaw (that can go...

Hi Everyone, 1st post here. Thought I would show you a welding/fabricating table I just finished. I don't know how to weld and I want to learn how to make things out of metal so I bought myself a welder for Christmas and after finding out that wood is not the best surface upon which to weld, I...