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Hello, I'm a novice welder. I have welded before but nothing fancy and sadly I've had very little hands-on instruction. So, I could use all the advice you're willing to give. I've done a bit of patching sheet metal before (and I blow a lot of holes), and I have a Harbor Freight 4x8 trailer...

Hello, Dad has been wanting to come up with a semi-portable blower fan for his 32x40 shop. Lucky for him, a neighbor just had the HVAC system in her house replaced, and the contractor gave him the old blower assembly (squirrel cage blower and motor). He wants to put it in a wooden box of some...

Hello, The previous owner of my house built my 36x50 steel siding pole barn in 2004, and installed two metal-framed windows (36x48, I think). 2x4 framing was nailed between the girts inside, then 2x4s nailed on edge beside that, to frame the rough opening. The windows were nailed through the...

Hi there! My house was built in 1990, and the previous owners bought it in 1993 and lived here until I bought it in fall 2013. They made quite a few changes over the years including buried wiring and a buried water line. I don't know how much was homeowner-done and how much was done by...

Hi there! I'm at the point in my shop refurb (remodel?) project that I'm ready to insulate. I got a quote earlier for blown cellulose (wet), then I realized that I wasn't thinking clearly when I talked to him and told him the wrong wall depth... Oh well, he did the estimate over email and...

Hi there! I finally managed to get one insulation company to write a quote and I'd like to know if the price seems reasonable. The building is a 36x50 pole barn, steel sides/roof, wood posts and trusses. I've added 2x4s to the exterior walls flush with the posts 2' OC, so there's an empty...

Hi there! I'm running NM 6/3 from the service panel in my detached shop to another room in the shop where a dust collector (5HP motor) will eventually be used. The run is only about 40 feet including the trip from the service panel up to the attic and back down the wall to the disconnect, but...

Hi there! First, if you know of a good insulation contractor in the Lexington, KY area please let me know. I have money in-hand, and I am ready to do the job (I'm not a "tire-kicker", I want to get this done soon) -- and I have had trouble getting contractors to call me back. Ugh. I...

Hi there! I was planning on roughing in the wiring for a future dust collector in the woodshop side of the shop but am not sure what I should do. The dust collector is probably this one or one similar to it...

Hi there! My house sets back from the road about 375 feet, and has a gravel driveway from the road to a small concrete pad in front of the attached garage. The gravel is not in great shape. It tends to wash out, and since the house is on a bit of a hill above the road, it tends to wash gravel...

Hi there! My property's previous owner built my 36x50 metal pole barn in 2004, and as part of that he ran a water line from the house to the back of the shop. The line comes into the shop on the back wall near a corner. The line is a PVC pipe run thorugh a lager PVC pipe coming up through the...

Hi there! I bought my house just about exactly a year ago. The house was built in 1990. The house has an attached 22x22 garage with a single roll-up metal insulated garage door. The door is, I think, 16' wide (I haven't measured it but it looks like a standard sized door with a few feet of...

Hi there! My shop is an existing 36x50 pole barn -- metal siding/roof, concrete slab, 6x6 wood posts, wood trusses. Currently there is no attic vent that I can see -- no ridge vent (as far as I can tell), no roof vents, no gable end vents, and no soffit vents (no soffits). That makes sense, I...

Hi there! I bought my house last October, after living in a house I built in Lexington, KY for 14 years. I liked that house but the attached garage was too small for what I wanted to do, and I really wanted more land around me than I had. So I bought a 2.25 acre property in rural Bourbon...

Hi there! I thought about titling this post "Bad floor, good coating" but didn't want go give the wrong impression. tl; dr -- Dad and I just finished using Legacy Industrial's epoxy primer and light gray SD epoxy coating on my 36x50 pole barn. My initial impression is that it looks really...

Hi there! The previous owner of my house built my shop in 2004 if the writing in the concrete is to be believed. I'm not sure who floated that floor, but I hope that was their first time, since it's not a good job. The floor isn't flat, so water tends to pond in places. It's not bad in...

Hi there! I have finished diamond-grinding my 36x50 shop's concrete floor. I have a gel filler kit from Legacy for the smaller cracks and such, but there are a few deeper places in the concrete that need filling. These are places where the previous owner had put walls up, and nailed/bolted...

I rented the Diamabrush attachment and the floor prep machine from Home Depot. I apparently do not know how to use it. If the machine is sitting flat on the pad when I turn it on, it swings violently to the left. It's so hard that I can't hold it. I'm 6', 200 lbs., and I can lift and carry...

Hi there! I bought a house last fall with a 36x50 pole barn, concrete floor, metal roof and siding. The previous owner divided the shop into three rooms. That doesn't fit what I want to do, so this weekend I'm removing all of that and starting with an empty building. There is no ceiling in...

Hi there! I bought a new-to-me house at the end of October, sitting on 2.25 acres, with a 36x50 pole barn behind the house. The building is a steel shell, metal roof, pole-barn construction. 6x6 posts, poured concrete floor, trusses on 5' centers. It was wrapped in insulation for the walls...