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Not the garage but the house. Our house has one of the heat pumps in the attic. There is blown in insulation there. I'd love to make it a conditioned space to greatly ease the load on the heat pump. The options I see are : 1) open cell spray foam on the underside of the roof sheathing. Is...

Existing house wiring has me stumped! I did all my 3 way and 4 way switches in the garage with no problems. So I replaced some outdoor floods with LEDs. I noticed when they were off at night there was still a little light emanating from them, like a night light. How can this be I say? So I...

Not my house but a daughter's. She got a deal on the place and had new stairs put in. They sure did a crummy job in terms of trim or basically no trim. I wish they'd extended the wall paneling then run the steps over to that. Timming now looks to be a pain. I can see running a board along...

I have a winco 8kw standby generator with an ASCO transfer switch. Everything has worked great until this weekend. Lights flashing on ASCO...uh-oh. Bottom line is generator is not putting out voltage/power. Winco guy says it's likely the excitation capacitor. I ordered it - 40 mfd. I took...

My house built in 2000, had a bunch of MWBC circuits. I don't like them....trying to add combination CAFCI/GFCI breakers (Square D QO) is a problem. So I've been finding the boxes where the 3 wire nm cable goes, running new 2 wire nm to that box and essentially getting rid of the MWBC. But in...

I have a partial box of 2" long black plastic staples for 1/2" to 5/8" pipe that Are left over and I don't need. If anyone wants these, I'll send them to you for the cost of shipping. There are 115 staples, part # 2007, purchased from the Blue Ridge company.

I just finished my copper air lines for my air compressor. I have 5 drops using Milton quick disconnects. At each I have a drip leg for any water condensation and a conbraco ball valve at the end of the drip leg. There is a union in the middle of the drip leg. I still see a very small...

I just got a nice compressor in my 28x 32 garage with 12' ceilings. I want to use copper air lines to feed, at least, a sandblast booth, an overhead pull down air line reel and at least one other spot for air feed. In addition to the sandblast booth, I'll be using air tools primarily. I may...

I have a new compressor with 5hp baldor motor, FLA of 20.6 at 240 volts. Wanting to be NEC compliant, I know I need to be hardwired with a disconnect. I have 8 awg nm feeding the disconnect. I've done some searching and found a Square D D222ncp disconnect at amazon. This is rated for 60 amps...

My 5hp new compressor instructions say 10 gauge wire with a 60 amp breaker...huh?? I ran 8 gauge NM and put in a 40 amp breaker. I can upsize the breaker to60 amps but this doesn't sound correct to me. I thought 6 gauge was required for 50 amps, 8 gauge for 40 amps and probably 4 gauge for...

I just got my heavy vertical compressor and instructions say it must be bolted to floor and have the supplied shock isolator pads under the 4 feet. No biggie, but I am over analyzing what kind of concrete anchor to use. The easiest is probably a redhead wedge anchor. But if I ever need to...

I'm getting a two stage 5hp compressor soon. I'm planning on 3/4" L copper for the feeds - will probably do 3 drops with one of these for a blast cabinet. Do any of you have recommendations on regulators and filters? Brands and where to purchase them? And just general supplies? How about...

Not looking for a recommendation but making one. If you are in the market, check out CAS air compressors, based in Texas. They do a comparison with a few other brands on youtube. High quality at reasonable prices!

My last significant purchase is a 2 stage 5hp 60 or 80 gallon compressor. This is for my home shop and for restoration work of my old TR4. I've been looking for years at Quincy, Champion, Saylor Beall and also Eaton/Polar. I lean toward Saylor Beall because the quality looks really good and...

One of my mini-splits wasn't cooling so the HVAC guy added Freon and a dye and will come back in 4 weeks. This mini-split has only been in service for 4 years. I ran the lines in the wall and the upper joints are accessible in an unheated crawlspace. I took photos - see below. Does this...

I have a reznor udas; been working great for about 6 years. About 2 weeks ago I went out and it was running but garage was not being heated. The led was flashing 3 times and blower was not running. 3 flashes means either limit switch or flame rollout switch is open. They are wired in series...

My garage is 32x28 with 12' ceilings and a 32 x 12 x 7 man cave attic room above - with an open staircase to the attic. This is the problem area. The place is very well insulated - R19 in all walls and r30+ in the ceilings. I put in 2 mini splits (Mitsubishi) - an 18k in the garage and a 9k...

Question for Armorpoxy: I put down armor Ultra with the military clearcoat. will road salt do any damage to this? Thanks, Tom

I finally put down the armorpoxy I purchased in the sale last Thanksgiving! Got this done over 3 days from Sept 20-22. Whew! And it looks fantastic! The first photo is before the epoxy. The concrete was poured in 2008 and has been lightly used. Between then and now, I went wild with...

I've got a 2 gang wall box installed and all insulation drywall and painting is done. I want to run surface PVC conduit from there to the ceiling for a special application. Any suggestions on how to best interface the conduit to the box? I'm thinking a blank cover, drill a hole in it so an...