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Anyone know the max moisture level in wood to successfully paint? I need to make a repair on a spot on the porch I'm painting and one option is replace a board with a treated board but I know a lot of treated lumber is pretty wet. I thought I could take my moisture meter with me and see if I can...

I'm repainting my enormous porch. Hope to get it done bofore it's too cold but we'll see. Two questions: I'm adding a ceiling fan to one section of the porch, pic attached. There are 2 lights there now. This section is about 17' long about 7-1/2' between the lights. One of us want to cut in a...

So I I need to add some grab bars for a shower stall for my dad. He has mobility problems a D getting g in the shower is tough for him. The problem is the shower is a one piece acrylic or fiberglass enclosure and there is nothing behind the walls, it's all hollow. I can flex the wall almost 3/4"...

So we're still working on our addition plan and a builder I have been talking to priced it out and in the quote specified MDF trim. I have only ever used wood trim, mainly pine. Any opinions on MDF vs pine trim? I tend to not like the MDF idea but I'm not sure why. Guess it just seems sort of...

So I have a weird house, its really long and more or less divided in two. We have been planning an addition for the house to get us a first floor master bedroom/ bathroom and a great room of sorts. In the planning I want to update the home's HVAC system since its 30+ years old, original to the...

Has anyone worked with RTA cabinets? I am getting ready to do a bathroom remodel and the vanity has to go. I don't really like any of the cabinets we see at the big box stores and there aren't really any other local places I can find to look at them and I thought about RTA cabinets. Looking...

I had a guy out to look over my water system. I thought I may have an iron bacteria issue. That is still unclear but he did mention cleaning the resin bed. I have looked around and I see there are commercial products to do that but I have never done this. Anyone worked with these products before...

So I need to build a door for the attic of my shop at the top of the stairs. The door would be wider than a 3' door. The steps I built are 40" wide to make it easier to get totes and stuff up and down and want to keep the door as wide as possible. After looking at it a while I think I want a...

So I'm putting up steel panels for the ceiling in my shop. It's a 12' ceiling and there is an walk up attic. My plan was to put up the panels then blow. In something. As I've started I'm having doubts. I'm concerned about getting insulation in the area under the attic floor and I have recessed...

Not sure if this is the best place for this post or not but I'm working on an addition plan and I want a zero step entry through a slider or French door. I was wondering if anyone here had experience with zero step entries and any tips or comments about them. My thought was to have concrete or...

I have a forced air wood burner to heat a shop. It sits outside and has duct to blow the air inside including a return air duct. The return is about 12' long 12" round. The supply is 10" round with about 9' of run and enters the building through a 12" duct. The blower is rated at 1800 cfm, has a...

I'm in the process of installing a forced air outdoor wood burner in my shop. I don't have a lot of options where I put the supply and return so they will only be about 8 feet apart. I'm just running the supply and return through the wall, not going to try and mess with multiple outlets or...

Anyone have a recommendation for a good bench top planer? My daughter is getting one for my son in law for Christmas and asked what I thought. Looking around the dewalt dw735x looks like a nice choice but I thought I'd ask some opinions.

I have an Delta model 600 single handle shower valve that wants to drip and is getting worse. I have the repair parts but the dome nut is stuck and I, of course, don't want to bust the valve body trying to remove it. Any suggestions from someone that has faced this? I found a couple videos on...

I'm not sure this is the best place for this post but her goes. I have a new porch on a barn. The ceiling is vinyl but the beam running around the perimeter and the posts are wood and I want to paint them white. The posts are 6x6 treated while the beam is (2) 2x10's sitting in notches in the 6x6...

So I'm working on correcting an attic venting problem that has led to condensation and mold. I have about all the soffit vents opened now and that should correct my main issue I think but there is one more thing I'd like to do. In that attic there is a cupola with a window on each side...

I'm covering interior walls on a new shop and before I finish I want to put one 220 vac outlet in. I don't need it now, I don't know what I would use it for other than maybe a welder or a a table saw or something like that. So I'm not sure what amp circuit to run. Any suggestions? I'm sort of...

So I came across some old library tables and I am going to use the tops for the tops of the workbenches that I'm building. They are solid maple 1-1/2" thick. I sanded one down to bare wood and cut it to size. I'm pondering what to do about a finish on them. I have been thinking about just using...

So I helped my neighbor tear down a 150 year old barn. I now have quite a bit of barn siding. I want to use it to sheet the inside of my new barn I put up a couple years ago. I have concerns about insects. I won't use anything obviously infested of course, but; is anyone familiar with a way to...

So I built an out building and I finished the electrical and I'll be starting the insulation and wall covering soon. I have a problem/question that has popped up. I used standard stud mounted metal boxes for the everything. They are screwed to the studs and have small tabs that more or less set...