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For questions generally relating to the area of the home in which cars and other motor vehicles are kept.

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As a first-time homeowner, I made the well-intentioned but misguided mistake of installing a cat flap in the garage-to-house door so that I can put litterboxes in the garage. I found out today that ...
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I found some kind of insect nest on my garage door. There were multiple like it in different sizes. Nothing was alive in them so I removed them, but now I wonder what animal it is, and what I could do ...
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I'm currently installing some K&V85 standards in the garage. Everything has installed without problem with the exception of this one portion of wall. The studs are 16" but there's an awkward ...
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I have a ranch-style house with attached garage. In the attic, there is no division between the space above the garage and the space above the living area. The living area ceiling is insulated, but ...
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I'm going to be installing some New Age cabinets in my garage for storage, similar to these. The problem is that my garage has a "curb" in it, for lack of a better word. Essentially the ...
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I noticed a small hole in my garage concrete and when I poked it, a thin surface layer crumbled revealing a rectangular void about 1"x1.5" full of miscellaneous debris (couldn't tell what it ...
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I'm installing a Modine HHD45 Hot Dawg H2O hot water unit heater in my attached garage. The Environment The garage already has a 3/4" copper sub-out from an existing zone inside the house. The ...
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We have a garage attached to our house, with a door between them. The garage itself has no insulation in the walls or ceiling, though of course the wall between garage and house is insulated. We are ...
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I found mice in my garage and attached pictures for what I consider the two most likely entrances. One is between wood planks next to my garage door which has a 3-4 feet slit of about 1/4 inch wide. ...
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I plan on sheeting the garage with 1/2 plywood. Can I remove these braces or should I inset them into the framing? The outside looks like wooden 1x material that overlaps
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We recently bought a house and the garage door did not come with a remote control, so I have been trying to figure this out on my own. I was able to change the passcode on the outside keypad using the ...
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I had my heavy bag hanging from two joists in my basement for years with no issues. But I recently moved and the only place to hang the bag is in my garage. It’s a 1967 house with trusses made from ...
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Hey all I am not a construction expert so excuse me if this is a ridiculous question. When it rains heavy it seems I have water seep into my garage through an exterior wall. See pictures. Between my ...
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The garage door opener will only open the garage door a certain height which is variable. Then it shuts off. The light on the wall button goes off and might not come back on for a minute or two. There ...
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My house is a older 1980s split level so when you walk in you either go up stairs or downstairs. My ductwork goes from one side of the basement ceiling to the other and there is a bulkhead covering it....
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