Questions tagged [garage]
For questions generally relating to the area of the home in which cars and other motor vehicles are kept.
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Attached garage wall with house - cabinets to the interior?
We have an attached garage. The entrance to the garage is in an interior hallway. I'd like to break the wall a bit & install interior upper cabinets and countertops on the inside of the hallway. ...
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GFCI outlet consistently trips in garage
Half of my garage does not work due to the GFCI constantly tripping.
Could this be due to cement moving due to freezing weather? The cold weather has moved the ground about 2 inches and I believe the ...
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How to install a safety barrier-post in garage, between house and vehicle
On the other side of the wall, in front of where my vehicle is parked, is my bedroom.
Would like to install something similar to what you would see at store fronts that have parking spaces near the ...
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How do I frame walls on an uneven concrete slab?
I'd like to convert (and finish) the back section of my 2-car tandem garage into a separate utility room. This would involve 4 walls and a floor. 2 of the walls would be attached to concrete walls, ...
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Lag bolts vs wood screws for reinforcing garage door header
I am about to install the garage door header bracket and I have almost everything figured out. There is a ~1 inch gap between the ceiling and joist I'm screwing into but I need every millimeter I can ...
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How to level this area of my garage?
I have an area of my garage that is lower and sloping towards the house. When the car is wet or covered in snow, it melts and runs down into this area in front of the stairs and makes a mess. Ripping ...
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Room above garage smells
I live in Ottawa in 15 year old house. The room above garage smells like wet wool or rubber. I removed the carpet and a foam padding to examine. The padding and plywood smell as described above (...
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Are you supposed to put a vapor barrier on both sides of the common garage wall (wall between garage and house)?
In my garage, the wall between the house and the garage has visible studs and insulation in it. This insulation is 50+ years old and I am going to tear it out and put in new insulation.
My question ...
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What is this thing for?
I've been shopping for houses and found this gadget in the garage. It's up near the ceiling and I don't know what it is for. There's nothing nearby that would give any hints. My image is ...
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How close can garage overhead storage be to fire sprinklers?
I've recently been looking at getting overhead storage racks for my garage which has several standard pendant sprinklers. The racks I am looking at are 4' x 8' and have rigid brackets, vertical posts,...
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How can I support a room expansion that will extend above a garage slab? [closed]
I have a mud room that I'd like to make larger. By doing so I have to extend the floor out into the garage. Currently, there is a landing in the garage that is about 3 feet off the ground leading into ...
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Can I program a garage key without rendering other programmed keys useless?
At my previous residence, I used to press a program/reset button on the garage motor to program a new remote. But that used to also make any other remotes paired to it useless as those remotes would ...
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Is a 60 amp breaker adequate for a 220v sub-panel to my garage?
150 panel in house. I want to run a 220 (sub-panel) feed to garage 25 feet away for 10,000 watt electric heater. There's room in the 150 panel. Would 60 amp breaker in the garage meet the 1.25 safety ...
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Top center of garage door bumping opener rail as it closes. Does anyone know the fix for this?
After 10 years of normal operation, my garage door started bumping the center opener rail just as the last edge of the door passes the very front the rail before it closes. This causes it to pop back ...
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New garage door trips breaker
We have a 3 car garage. We had 3 new garage openers installed. Genie Machforce. They are on their own 20 amp breaker. They periodically keep tripping breaker usually when you double hit the button or ...
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GFCI Protection for Garage Lights?
I know all receptacles in a garage require GFCI protection. But what about garage lights? I plan to hard-wire some new wiring to new garage lights and I'm wondering if this circuit needs to be on a ...
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Main Breaker Panel or Main Lug Panel for Sub-panel in Attached-Detached Garage
I am installing a ~100-amp sub-panel in my "attached-detached" garage (an "attached-detached" garage is a detached garage that shares a continuous roof with the home). The sub-panel will be fed by my ...
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How can I use a 15A momentary switch (switches) to replace my multi-button wall-mount garage door opener?
My wall-mount garage door opener was pretty beat up when I moved in and has only gotten worse to the point the open/close button is cracked and is difficult to operate for my kids.
I would like to ...
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Garage floor damp
Been reading on line for several hours now.
I have dampness on my garage floor, note: it's about 8yrs old.
If I put a box any where on the garage floor for several hours, there will be a damp foot ...
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Garage Door Won't Close, Reverts near bottom, Why?
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Our doors are made out of wood. They are extremely heavy and around 30+ years old.
Recently we notice our 3rd garage door stopping near the bottom of the track when closing and ...
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fix broken water pipe in garage (burst in winter)
Last winter, the water pipe in my garage was apparently not emptied entirely and burst when the water froze. At least that is what I assume, because when I turned on water in spring, it sprayed out of ...
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Is it likely that this single skin brick wall can support a large kitchen cabinet?
I would like to hang an 80cm x 80cm x 37cm cabinet on this single skin brick wall (where the ladders are currently hanging). The bricks are 10cm deep. The span of wall, each side of the pier, is ~...
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Why does my garage consumer unit buzz when the kettle is on?
I fancied a cup of tea while working in the garage and didn’t want to keep going back into the house so I fetched the kettle etc and plugged it into the garage.
When I turn the kettle on, the ...
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What kind of glass should I use for insulating a garage door window? [closed]
While insulating my garage door, I'm considering replacing the existing plain glass with something better. I'm considering replacing each pane, or simply attaching a second layer on the inside of the ...
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Making your own B Vent Attic Insulation Shield?
I'm installing a 45k BTU gas heater in my garage. It will be a vertical vent installation with 3" b vent pipe and I'm going to insulation the attic with about 18" of cellulose insulation.
No one ...
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If it is not going to actively heated or cooled, is there any value in insulating a garage?
In Southern California, during new construction with a finished garage, the cost of adding insulation at this point should be low.
But if the space will not have any active cooling or heating ...
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Why doesn't my garage door opener close the door?
I am currently having an issue where my garage door remote does not work when attempting to close the door. I have done a fair bit of research which suggested the light bulb next to the motor/antennae ...
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Do they make wireless safety sensors for garage door openers?
I've had a lot of issues with the safety sensors for my garage door opener, most of which had to do with loose or broken wires leading from the opener to the sensors. It's been extremely frustrating ...
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Code requirements for adding several outdoor outlets around my garage
I have been doing some reading and feel just about ready to add some more outlets to my garage. I would like to add 2-3 more outlets, 1 on one side at the top (maybe under the roof overhang) for ...
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Garage door torsion bar support bracket not attached
The third-car garage door on my recently-built house seems to have a bracket loose. The bracket in question is one that seems to go around the torsion spring and screws to the door frame header - it ...
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How do you identify settling cracks versus structural cracks (new build )
In my new build house I've found roof to ground stucco crack on outside and at same location on inside (garage). There's a crack from top through the mortar, then straight through two blocks, then ...
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Is the combination switch and outlet circuit in my 1970s home ok?
I’m replacing an existing incandescent light fixture in my garage with two LED fixtures. The light is on a set of 3-way switches. I expected to remove the existing fixture and find a hot and neutral....
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Water puddle in backyard causing leaking in garage concrete wall
This is what I saw in the backyard of a split level home after a light rain
The water was there due to overflow from gutter. I can clean the gutter but the puddle situation must be fixed as it will ...
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Can these wall braces be removed?
My detached garage was rebuilt in 2015, and 2 of the walls have metal braces with kerfs cut into the studs. The walls are sheathed with tongue and groove. The wall in the picture is 2x4’s 24” on ...
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Should I resurface my concrete before laying epoxy on a garage floor?
I'd like to lay down epoxy garage flooring. The concrete in my garage is still original (50+ year house) in relatively good shape. Will the epoxy fill in minor (1/8" or so) imperfections which are ...
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Craftsman 3/4 hp garage door won’t go down.
I have a craftsman 3/4 hp garage door that will not go down, sometimes it goes down about 2 inches then back up and flashes 10 times. It will go all the way down if I hold the wall button until it ...
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What conductor and burial depth are appropriate for my garage subpanel circuit?
We are building a 2-story detached garage. The upstairs will be my wife's studio. She is a painter and quilter. The lower level will be a standard garage for tools, etc. I do not plan to weld but who ...
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Can hanging a 70 lbs punching bag from my garage ceiling cause damage?
Took a look in the attic above the garage to find somewhere to hang my 70 lbs punching bag. After seeing what was up there, I wasn't sure it was a good idea anymore so I was hoping to get some ...
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Should I close the gable vent on my garage in the winter?
My garage has a vent grill similar to this one. The vent is near the roof on the outside wall where I have my garage doors. I do have 1/2 of the walls insulated and I was planning to start finishing ...
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What are my options to level a concrete driveway?
I have quite an old house that was built in the 40s. During the heavy rain and winter seasons, I typically get large puddles of water in-front of my garage that seeps slowly through the weather strip. ...
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Garage door not operating correctly
My garage door opener is a Linear. It opens fine with either the hard wired button or remote. It will not close at all with remote. It will not close with the hard wired button unless you hold your ...
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Garage has switched outlets only, cannot operate new garage doors. What are my options?
UPDATE: For anyone curious about what I ended up doing -- I bought 6 motion sensor plugs, plugged those into the existing outlets, then plugged the lights into that, and the garage door opener plug ...
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How to dust proof and waterproof garage concrete screed?
I want to treat my single garage floor (15sqm) which is apparently made of soft concrete screed. It looks as being in good shape with no cracks and no signs of water coming but I just want to be sure ...
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loosening bolt on the steel support strut that's secured to the ceiling of the garage
I was working on my garage door the other day and I noticed that the steel supporting strut (or more appropriate name for this? See the picture) tilted due to a loosening bolt, the ceiling cracked ...
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Is it safe to store a wheel/tire set in my garage loft area?
I'm not sure how much they weigh. I assume around 50lbs a piece. Here is the area I will store them in:
https://i.imgur.com/Ys2LnOf.jpg
Any specific way I should arrange the load or am I worrying ...
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How can I safely reinforce my garage trusses to support ceiling drywall and insulation?
Recently bought a home that came with a double detached garage. The garage is older, perhaps from the 70s? It uses what looks like an early adoption of a truss framed roof. The trusses look like they ...
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Help: Wiring 220V in garage to NEMA 10-30r because MIG welder and air compressor have 10-30p
I've reviewed many articles on this website as they've been referred by my Google searches. But most have been about dryers.
I have an older air compressor (240V, 60Hz, 15A, 5hp) and a MIG welder (...
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Garage remodel: can I leave garage door in and put an insulated wall in front?
doing a garage remodel and wondering how best to keep the garage door on facade and still be able to have A/C in the garage? I live in hot and humid south Texas. Is this a ridiculous solution to ...
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How does a garage door wall button differentiate between a door open button, and a light button?
How does the wall button know, if there’s only two wires (+ and -), what’s a door open button press, and a light on press? Is it a voltage transmission difference?
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How to put drywall over garage uneven concrete wall?
I would like to make my garage wall a bit "smoother". And now I think about using drywall to cover the bare concrete. However the concrete is very uneven with at least 1 inch of concrete sticking out ...
