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Hi all- Haven’t been through in a while, but finally am back on garage improvements. Life been lifing- teenagers keep you hopping. Anyway- recently got a couple circuits added for welder and bigger compressor, which is exciting and all, but as part of that I also got a circuit put in for a mini...

After years of browsing this forum- I’m actually looking into planning a little 20’ wide by 20-30 deep shop behind my house. Not a massive place, but what will fit in my little lot if I can get the HOA on board. Million steps to go through before we start, but we do live in a tornado zone and it...

I’ve been a member here forever, but never did manage to make any headway on the old place we lived in for 15yrs. The whole house needed rebuilding, and we were busy raising kids- so the garage stuff just never got done. Anyway. Sold that one, bought a new place couple years ago, coated floor...

Tomorrow afternoon we're closing on a brand new home with a nice 2-car garage. Being a sometime gearhead tinkerer kinda guy, I want to protect/ nice-up the new floor before we move all our stuff in. Was leaning toward the Rustoleum Epoxyshield Pro kit, but am also considering a couple of the...

Hey y'all, been quite a while. I'm in the very, very early stages of trying to budget up a garage for my backyard. Goal is an eventually-nicely-finished outbuilding, but the immediate goal is just to get the building there, dried in, lockable-with-lights. Something like a 30x40 on a 30x50 slab...

Pressure regulator on my craftsman compressor seems to have given out, and I have only had the compressor a year or so, in which time I have only probably touched that knob a few times. Given that it seems to be a super-lame plastic-fantastic fitting- is there anything better than just heading...

Probably an unusual question, I wouldn't think a lot of you guys have water issues since most of the garages we see are built on grade. Mine's cut into a hill, hence my trouble. I thought I had my water problem in my basement handled when I got new gutters installed this summer. Alas, I was...

Lots of people doing new builds in here, so I'll ask: I'm replacing all the doors in my house (ongoing remodel, got a deal on the doors), and need new hardware to go in them. What/where should I be looking besides at Lowe's/HD for a handleset/deadbolt for the front door, and a matching...

Cliff's notes: Lock up your stuff. There's bad people about. Found out from my wife today that there have been some break-ins in my neighborhood. Her grandparents live on the other end of the neighborhood, and two of their neighbors have been hit recently. MO is somebody walks up the house...

Question in the title. I'm closing in a post-and-beam (don't get too excited- not a "real" craftsman mortise and tenon kind of post and beam, just framed out of 6x6 and 4x6 timbers) framed carport on the end of my house, and went browsing Depot today at lunch to see what stuff will cost. Looks...

:spit: Except without the laughing. The contractor who's putting together the roof tear-off re-do and gutter fix/replace on our house just quoted me $1400 to paint the fascia board behind the gutters. Unless I am completely off my rocker, that's going to be $100 or so in materials, and...

Any surveyors on here? This falls under the category of "General Garage Discussion" because I can't build anything away from the house until I find my property lines, plus there are plenty of smart and experienced folks on here. I have a house on 2 acres. Probably 2/3 of that property is...

Anybody know where I can find something to hold bits for a nut driver/ interchangeable screwdriver bits /etc? I'm working on getting my tools out of the craptacular plastic cases that Craftsman sold them to me in, and move them over to Hansen trays/ roll-box drawers/ etc. I have my...

Kind of a weird idea- wanted to see if anybody had done anything similar. The end of my house has a carport on it that has been on the plan to convert into a closed garage for a while- the plan's getting closer as I chug slowly along on the rest of the house... Still trying to get a better...

I finally picked a compressor and bought it, waited a week for it to come in, and went and picked it up. It's great, fairly quiet, and pretty much the most CFMs I can expect out of a (semi)portable tank. All I've used it for so far is airing up tires, though, since I haven't bought any tools to...

I have a half basement/ shop that I am getting started on finishing. Biggest air leaks into the space are the garage door (easy fix, just have to spend the money) and a big void over the partition wall that separates the area from the uninsulated crawlspace. I'm going to attach a crude diagram...

Well, I think I have decided to quit trying to dump money into my 17-year-old hand-me-down Murray from Grandpa's estate and start afresh with a new lawn tractor, as the thing was broken more than it worked properly for most of last season. I've got approximately 1.5 acres of mostly flat/ gently...

I got a $75 giftcard for Sears for Christmas. Sears is pretty far (40 minutes or so one-way) out of the way on my daily routine, so I guess I'll be spending it on the web, or making a pick it out and pick it up run via the internet. I can't think of anything I just NEED besides a compressor (I...

Who's got a good one, where'd you get it, and what did you pay? I am a little scared of the Horrible Freight one, just because it A) has moving parts, B) came from off a boat, and C), will be supporting something that would hurt badly if it fell off and landed on my foot/leg. The only thing it's...

Anybody have advice on what to get for this? Uses will include framing nailers, probably impact wrenches and air ratchets. Possibly spraying primer on my rusty old car, depending on whether I can get a decent enough one (CFM-wise) to do the job without crapping out. Portability would be cool...