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• Posted in thread: Insulating Concrete Block on 07-07-2012 at 03:49 PM
  My house being concrete block and horribly lacking in insulation, I've been researching this
  site and elsewhere on the subject. After going over a fair amount of material I've come to a
  couple of conc...

• Posted in thread: Feed to Separate Building on 02-28-2011 at 05:54 PM
  I'm sure this can't be right, but I've discovered that the feed to my detached garage comes
  from a 220v 50amp breaker in the main panel in the house. The current is carried by a 10-3 NM
  cable across t...

• Posted in thread: Ceiling or walls...which first? on 01-05-2010 at 12:10 PM
  Guess I never really gave this much thought before, but when doing a full remodel is it normal
  to do the ceiling first and then the walls? I'm looking at a redo in my laundry room, which has
  concrete ...

• Posted in thread: TV has it's own mind... on 09-24-2009 at 05:57 PM
  I don't know what the typical range is of a TV remote, but my closest neighbor is across the
  street. Also, my TV is in a corner of the room which places the back of the TV towards all
  neighbors and bo...

• Posted in thread: TV has it's own mind... on 09-24-2009 at 12:07 PM
  This is getting frustrating. We have a 42" Samsung LCD flatscreen TV that's not quite a year
  old. From time to time the darn thing will just simply change the channel all by itself. Last
  night we're t...

• Posted in thread: Howdy from the Hoosier state! on 11-19-2008 at 06:48 PM
  Just came aboard and thought I'd say hello. I'm a do-it-yourselfer from way back and have been
  into quite a few projects over the years. That's not to say that they were all done "according
  to Hoyle",...