mostly working on paperwork today, I have a couple of things to do in the shop for a silent auction also.

I have a house to finish drawing, a basement to draw, a couple proposals to finish and a Couple of deeds to do. Trying to catch up a bunch of stuff this weekend.

I love seeing them making barrels, I think it would be an interesting craft. I took one apart the other night to make a couple crafts for a silent auction. even though it was old, you could still smell the wine in it. The interior had a great purple color from the wine that will give things an interesting look. There is a lot of work that goes…[Read more]

Stan, that would be interesting to see, you can just email them to me if you want, I think the software I use is a Chief Architect product from 1995 or so, I know they will be at the International Builders Show, in Vegas , in January that I will be at , so I will ask them about their more scaled down software. I once bought their full version…[Read more]

I have a Porter Cable, Milwaukee and a Hitachi, I would go with the Hitachi over the other two. I do see a lot of Bostich out there also.

While I do not have any experience with Electric vehicles, I experience a few days below zero F, like we just had, and it makes me wonder how the cold weather will affect battery life.

We all know what it does to our cordless tools, will it do the same for the batteries in the cars or trucks.

Also, the only way I see to heat the vehicle is with…[Read more]

We do not build anything on a slab without a course of block on top of the slab to give a separation from the wood framing to grade. Having a course of 8″ block allows for a good 7″ of separation and helps greatly.

It pretty much eliminates the jamb rot we are seeing in the photo’s and gives a much more rot resistant structure.

Greetings Patrick, Welcome to the Forum! I hope you enjoy it and find it useful.

MTRoads wrote:Kurt,
I can understand going that route. My issue is that my freehand drawing capabilities are, shall we say, challenged? Getting things hand-drawn close enough to scale to explain the design reasons to the client would take me a lot longer than it takes with the software.

I mostly hand draw items that are not used for…[Read more]

just saw your post Pat. Glad to hear you are doing better and wish you well. Stick around and comment form time to time, it is always great to hear from you.

Dose this mean I will need adapters for my older Fein’s when I end up having to buy the newer blades?

I have a bunch of older ones that I got cheap that we are working through.

I seem to have posts disappearing when we use the “Quote function” but I seem to get the points.

Bosch used to have an adapter that was about the size and thickness of a quarter that you used to fit different blades. I have a couple laying around still. I will try to find one and get a photo.

While the OP is a little short of details and a photo would help, here is my take on this. Unfortunately I do have to make a few educated guesses.

the garage is a freestanding structure that is build on a foundation consisting of a thickened slab and not a stem wall with frost footings. The reason that the slab cracked is that some frost got…[Read more]

Starting a tub replacement today. We are replacing it with a shower for an older couple. Removing the old steel tub and the plaster walls to get it out. Plumber will be in tomorrow to rework the drain and install a new faucet and set the base and walls.

My Bosch 18V OMT died the other day, while working out of town, and I needed one to finish what we were working on. The local store had the Dewalt corded model and a Dreml corded model. I picked up the Dewalt for a little more that the Dreml. It seems like a pretty good tool from what we used it.

It is always a pain when a tool dies when you…[Read more]

Sounds like a good move Chad. Congratulations of finding something that you are excited about. How far is Pittsburg from where you live in Ohio?

If you love what you are doing, you will never work a day in your life.

We have installed several of the Navien units and they are a good unit. If the wait for the hot water is an issue they do have a unit with a small buffer tank and a recirculation pump to keep hot water in the lines and get hot water to the point of discharge faster. You will wan to insulate you hot water lines in a system such as this.

old thread warning. Most relevant so not starting a new thread.

My 18v Cordless OMT that h=I have had for a few years just died today. One minute it was working and the next not. anyone else have this issue or any ideas. I would hate to think it is unrepairable. What happened souns=ds a lot like the original post.

Just curious if any…[Read more]

fixing a window well and getting ready for our first Snowmageddon of this winter. We already had plenty last spring and they are saying we are in the middle of the heaviest band. I really hope it shifts and gives us a little reprieve, I am really not ready for this crap yet this year.

GTokley wrote:On Monday while I was at the Sports complex I saw on the sign outside that the Christmas Train is stopping in our area again. From what I can tell it will be stopping at railway crossing. I didn’t catch what time it will be stopping at.

There is a schedule in the original post about the train for this pear on the previous page of t…[Read more]