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Any thoughts on where to get the aluminum? big box store ok?

Indeed there are vents at the top of the roof. My amateur thinking was that my house also has vents at the top of the roof in addition to vented soffits, and the attic of a house is typically unfinished (thus similar should apply here)

Hi, GJ has never steered me wrong before, so here goes: 26x28 detached, unfinished garage. HIP roof. Soffit and fascia is in need of repair - 1x6 pine (fascia) and 3/8" non vented plywood (soffit) is bad. Paint is peeling off, in some areas soffit has started to detach, as is fascia. I took...

The breaker on the main that goes to the garage looks like this, so I assume it is 240v/40a Thanks for confirming the load calculations drive the breaker and branch loads, not strictly the incoming values of the breakers feeding this panel. Understood that those breakers at the main do...

Hi, I have an existing detached garage, with wiring, but done poorly. I'm at the onset of planning, and i got great answers last time so I'm hoping someone will be gracious again. NEC 2014 is what I'm looking at for my area. I am looking at replacing all of the branches coming from this...

Tis all those things. thank you!

I'm wading into an overhaul of how the electric is distributed in my 2.5 car detached garage. There's an old wall furnace in the garage from when we bought the place, that I turned off the natural gas to it a long time ago because I considered it to be a fire hazard (furnace is very old...

Sorry to bump an aging thread, but this is the most recent topic on torque/extensions (and I'm already signed up for GJ), but this concept makes no sense to me. If you put an extension on a torque wrench AT ANY ANGLE, you HAVE changed the length, haven't you? Torque should be measured from the...

if I'm going to add in the missing joists, any input on how I go about finding the "right" joist to do it with? I assume I can't pick up any old 2x6 and use it... I found some markings on the existing joists. Looks like: No 1 S-GRN HEM-FIR-W

I'm hoping to glean some information from people who know better than I. My garage is a 2.5 car garage, looks to have been built in the 60's. Its got a hip style roof, and when I look inside I wonder if what I'm seeing can be right. There area total of 4 joists. The builder used 22' 2x6...

I actually had the opposite experience some people here had. When I changed the timing belt on my civic it was not leaking as far as i could tell, and then shortly after doing the timing belt.... a leak developed (crank). Now a year later I'm going to replace the timing belt AGAIN, and this...

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Hopin the garage types can help me out. What would you call a bolt that looks like this? The page refers to it as an eye bolt but I'm not finding any other pages that have eye bolts with the eye no larger than the width of the bolt itself....

I tried the AF bucket peanut butter trap from this thread. One day, one mouse! This trap is going to be great as it gets colder.

To be honest, I'm not sure its a problem myself. I don't believe I've got a vapor barrier and I'm trying to think of all scenario's above 'possible' when thinking about how to do the repair

Alrighty, here's my question about each of the solutions recommended. The bottom half of the crack is never addressed, so isn't it entirely likely water could find its way beneath the repair, either into the sand or below the backing rod, freeze, expand, and make the crack worse? Since the...

I've been trying to figure out the best way to proceed with repairing a crack in my garage floor. Like any crack it varies in width, and at widest its about 5/8" and at its thinnest its hairline. As far as I can tell it goes all the way through, so its more than 2" deep. I'm in northern IL to...

Will have to check on the walls with a level to be certain, but they appear to be straight up and down to the eye. In the shot of the roof, the joist (I'm referring to the horizontal board) has a little bit of sag to it, but it doesn't appear to be problematic (to the untrained eye). It will...

Ok here's some pictures. 2.5 car garage divided into two distinct sides, which here I'll just refer to as finished and unfinished. First shot is looking out, and that thing on the left is the existing heater. Truth be told, it doesn't put out much heat, and the pilot light has trouble staying...

ok, profile updated. The "kind of finished" side does have heating/cooling, but I'm not planning to add any additional air treatment to the unfinished side. the overall plan is to have my shop be in the side that is finished right now... I will most likely refinish it because as it stands I...