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g-and-h_electric said:
Just a quick "FYI".... the car does fit in the garage with all the stuff in it. I was cleaning it out so that I can get a used GENERAC 15kW in and the car!

But yeah I am also working on downsizing..... dont need all the "junk" that has followed me home for 36 years of living here.....
Howard
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I had to do a 30-year cleanout of the garage. Opener quit, the service guys actually wanted space to work on the opener!
 
g-and-h_electric said:
Just a quick "FYI".... the car does fit in the garage with all the stuff in it. I was cleaning it out so that I can get a used GENERAC 15kW in and the car!
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You aren't running the generator inside the garage, are you? Just checking.

The only time my garage has ever had a car in it was when we were moving in 36 years ago. It was always destined to be my man cave.
 
ggunn said:
You aren't running the generator inside the garage, are you? Just checking.

The only time my garage has ever had a car in it was when we were moving in 36 years ago. It was always destined to be my man cave.
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If you regularly had any significant snowfalls, you might put a car in it or at least build another one for the car.

Even if you saw frost on windows in the mornings on a regular basis you may park in garage or build another garage for the car.

I have a non heated building I call my shop. Summertime I may not park truck in it as often, wintertime it goes in nearly every night. Still stays warm enough inside there that I won't have frost on windows in the morning, and if we get overnight snow it doesn't have a blanket of snow on it in the morning. A heated building of course would melt off any snow that accumulated on the truck while it was out, which if really needed I do have ability to heat inside with portable space heater (200k btu propane unit and not a 1.5kW milk house heater that would do little in there)
 
kwired said:
In my incident it was 3 packs of P&S GFCI receptacles. Opened box on install site and find someone had returned with the no-name GFCI's they sell at that store. They looked used as well. Bet they failed, someone bought new P&S and returned the failed ones in the P&S box. Store employees were clueless and placed them back on the shelf. Meanwhile I was 50 miles or so from the store and did not have enough GFCI's for the project. Didn't even try to see if the ones I had actually worked, no way I was going to install them period.

Learned my lesson. I usually look in the boxes now to make sure it has what it is suppose to have in it while at the store.
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I have heard of people buying a expensive faucet at a big box store, installing it and putting the old one in the package and carefully sliding the straps around the package before returning it.
 
Moved into this house 26 years ago and “temporarily” stored my bench power tools in the garage. The plan was to build a shed next to the garage as my wood shop. But I was going to work from home and the kids were young, that did NOT work. Do the shed became my office… temporarily. I quit working from home about 12 years ago, but the shed just became a catch-all for the kid’s stuff as they moved out.

26 years later the shed walls were crumbling and harboring a literal rats nest, so I had it torn down. Had a new larger pad poured (the old shed was just on ground-contact treated 4x4s), bought a bigger shed and am waiting for it to be delivered next week. As I am preparing my bench power tools to finally go in there, I’m coming across a bunch of materials and tools I no longer use, need or want. I’ve run into sone of the same issues posted here; stuff that sat so long that the world has moved on and it’s no longer of value.
 
From what I am hearing on this forum, that making it in this current financial condition, is not easy. So, conserving materials is very important, and maybe being nonchalant was being insensitive. And I apologize for it.
 
Dennis Alwon said:
I hate to waste things but
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Hopefully this isn't you. Came across during a renovation, someone evidentially couldn't stand to waste even a little bit of wire, found multiple unboxed splices, many using as little as 2 ft of Romex between splice points. Probably close to 15 splices in just the bathroom wall including behind the shower valve wall.
 
Fred B said:
Hopefully this isn't you. Came across during a renovation, someone evidentially couldn't stand to waste even a little bit of wire, found multiple unboxed splices, many using as little as 2 ft of Romex between splice points. Probably close to 15 splices in just the bathroom wall including behind the shower valve wall.
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I hope it wasn't me either. haha
 
kwired said:
If you regularly had any significant snowfalls, you might put a car in it or at least build another one for the car.

Even if you saw frost on windows in the mornings on a regular basis you may park in garage or build another garage for the car.

I have a non heated building I call my shop. Summertime I may not park truck in it as often, wintertime it goes in nearly every night. Still stays warm enough inside there that I won't have frost on windows in the morning, and if we get overnight snow it doesn't have a blanket of snow on it in the morning. A heated building of course would melt off any snow that accumulated on the truck while it was out, which if really needed I do have ability to heat inside with portable space heater (200k btu propane unit and not a 1.5kW milk house heater that would do little in there)
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With a couple of notable exceptions over the past few years, we don't get much if any snow and ice here in Austin during a typical winter. :D

When my wife and I built this house we had the HVAC system extended to include the garage; the space is insulated, and it is double sheetrocked from the main house. A friend of mine and I built a thermally and acoustically insulated wall to seal the opening outside the garage door. Years later when it was time to get the HVAC replaced, we replaced the single system with two smaller ones - one for the man cave and one for the rest of the house - so that during the winter I can run the AC in the man cave and the heat in the rest of the house at the same time.
 
norcal said:
I have heard of people buying a expensive faucet at a big box store, installing it and putting the old one in the package and carefully sliding the straps around the package before returning it.
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that's why a lot of packages have those 'cellophane' windows so you (and the clerks) can see just what's i the package...
 
ggunn said:
With a couple of notable exceptions over the past few years, we don't get much if any snow and ice here in Austin during a typical winter. :D

When my wife and I built this house we had the HVAC system extended to include the garage; the space is insulated, and it is double sheetrocked from the main house. A friend of mine and I built a thermally and acoustically insulated wall to seal the opening outside the garage door. Years later when it was time to get the HVAC replaced, we replaced the single system with two smaller ones - one for the man cave and one for the rest of the house - so that during the winter I can run the AC in the man cave and the heat in the rest of the house at the same time.
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What do people in the south use for insulation? Reliable Rumours say that you can't find extruded insulation in 4x8 panels south of the Mason-Dixon line! In northern KY we still have 1 and 2" thick available.
 
PaulMmn said:
What do people in the south use for insulation? Reliable Rumours say that you can't find extruded insulation in 4x8 panels south of the Mason-Dixon line! In northern KY we still have 1 and 2" thick available.
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There is paper backed fiberglass insulation in the walls and blown insulation over the garage.
 
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