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I would like to do some eave lighting on my shop as well as on my house. Any thoughts as to how to install a can light (or similar) in an open eave setup?

So I have a ranch style house with two sliding doors opening onto patio. There is an outside light near each sliding door on a 3-way switch with switches by each door. I would like to put the shop exterior lights on the same switch so I can turn on/off all of the outside lights from either...

I got a hair-brained idea last month and went to the scrap yard and got some 1/4" thick rusty diamond tread cut into 4" squares. I want to put these as accents in my shop bathroom floor between floor tiles. I will likely seal them with something - clear coat spray or some clear flat urethane...

I am building my 36x44 shop in Boring, Oregon. I have been ready to pour concrete since September, but have an issue with water in my 3/4 minus gravel base. I have dug several trenches inside the shop (in the gravel base) and when it rains they fill with water. The shop is built into a...

Contractor is finishing up my garage - 36x44x15 http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=212954 I am waiting for concrete, but getting the garage doors lined up so they can be installed soon after concrete is done. I have two windows over my garage door (10' tall x 12' wide)...

This post is a long time coming... I have been a pathological lurker on GJ for some time - posting here and there once in a great while (long time listener, first time caller...) I have long been a fan of garages. Growing up, my grandfather owned (and still does) a rock quarry with a...

Hey gents- I am just finishing up my shop - stick built 36x44 with 15' ceiling. Two garage doors, one 12 wide x 10 tall, one 12 wide x 14 tall My dad has (15) 2'x4' fluorescent lights new in the box that he has had in storage for about 5 years but never used that he will give me...

Found this on local craigslist - and thought you guys would enjoy seeing something unique... (Again - not mine nor anyone I know - removed contact info from ad) :) Attention all contractors or home builders/buyers.....I have 2 custom,handmade, reinforced, stained glass panel garage doors. We...

FYI... Purchased these at the local scrap yard - didn't steal them I swear :thumbup: :thumbup:

So I want to put up a carport on the side of my house next to my garage - One of my buddies suggested jokingly over a beer to use a free-standing overhead bridge crane. At first I laughed him off - but the more I think about it, the better it sounds... I was thinking of installing...