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Can I use a recessed subpanel in the wall between house and attached garage?
Yes, you can put a panel in a plastered wall in a closet. You may regret the choice if the closet makes getting to the panel difficult, the fiberglass insulation is also OK. Since you don’t know too ...
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Why no neutral wire on Double-Pole Single Outlet?
There's a Technology Connections video for your question.
Our setup is 240V with a neutral in the middle, so if you want 120V you take it hot-neutral, and if you want 240V you take it hot-hot. Many ...
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How to make garage door easy to manually lift for 5 year old
Replace / add electric garage door opener.
This will make the use of garage door more convenient for you, by the virtue of remote, and your child can just press a button inside garage to open/close ...
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Cabling electric cable (AWG 8) through roof of garage; NEC code?
Electric code doesn't really care about holes in the roof .vs. holes in the wall. Service masts that penetrate roofs are very common. Common sense says not creating a potential roof leak (& flat ...
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How to make garage door easy to manually lift for 5 year old
First, let's get an important matter out of the way: Do not mess with the garage door spring merely to increase ease of opening. It is dangerous, and stores a lot of energy. Winding springs is ...
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How to make garage door easy to manually lift for 5 year old
Your door should be moveable by a small person if it's balanced properly. If the springs are correctly set it'll hold position when halfway open. You could bias toward too loaded so the door opens ...
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How to make garage door easy to manually lift for 5 year old
I have a recollection of being able to open my dad's double-wide garage door at the age of 5-ish, kindergarten, first grade times, to ride my bicycle. So yes it ought to be possible to tension the ...
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Updating detached garage electrical
This is actually a good plan. 40A is fine on 8 AWG aluminum. That is the max on 8 AWG aluminum, so depending on conduit size (because if your existing conduit is usable and big enough you don't want ...
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Lift Master Garage Door - remote hardly works from outside the garage
We found that new LED light strips we had installed in the garage were causing interference. Once I brought the antenna forward to the front of the garage, the remotes worked from outside the garage ...
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Proper way to install workshop 'wall' in single skin brick garage
I'd suggest that your final thought - putting in studs as though you are going to finish it at some point - would be your best idea.
You're right to be concerned about moisture getting into the lumber,...
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Why would a smart switch not turn on if seemingly wired correctly?
STOP!
In the US wiring scheme (other places are similar, but colors and terminology vary a bit, but this is clearly US):
Wires must either be in cables (usually non-metallic, NM, commonly referred to ...
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For detached garage: buried cable or overhang?
It depends on what else is between the house and garage. If there's ever a chance of bringing a tall ladder, vehicles, or other need for access, burying is the way to go to not have any overhead ...
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How to best insulate my garage roof
What is that, USDA Zone 5? With just the soffit vents, the code requires 1 ft² of vent area per 150 ft² of floor area. The code required them, so there they are.
The code provides for enclosed rafters ...
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Should I replace the HVAC or install a mini split in my garage?
It is fruitless to spend on the 20 yr old HVAC system with the issues you speak of.
I have installed Mini-splits in a few small homes I purchased with problem HVAC systems. I'm getting ready to do ...
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Electrical Upgraded Wiring to Detached Garage? Future Proofing
Basically two separate issues:
Feed Circuit Size
This is determined by wire size. 90A is a common value because 2 AWG aluminum has a maximum capacity of 90A when used as a subpanel feeder. If you ...
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Garage door opens and slides down a bit
When we let the door go around half way it slips down several inches and stops, although if we open it just a little further before letting go then it looks like it will slip almost all the way back ...
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What is this dirt like substance coming out of my garage walls? It keeps coming back after I sweep it up
This sort of mess can come from ants or termites inside the wall.
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Lift Master Garage Door - remote hardly works from outside the garage
Here is a response that I have not seen or heard, but happened to me. My remotes both quit working unless I was right up against the garage door. For a couple of weeks I attempted different things......
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