How to prevent water from leaking in under a car garage door?
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Comments (11)Only someone who has been taught how to determine the correct load on a beam and how to size it could help you. A building inspector or a builder might have that training but I would assume they don't if it were my garage. What you still don't seem to understand is that the building code offers no prescription or table for the sizing of a beam this long other than to say it must be designed according to "accepted engineering practice". In most jurisdictions that means a licensed engineer. It is doubly important to have a professional designer involved if the walls on either side of the opening are less than 4 ft wide because they might not offer enough lateral resistance to keep the garage from collapsing in a wind storm. Unless the building inspector has some kind of beam design guide that the state allows him to use or has been trained as an engineer or an architect, he should not be offering structural advice to a homeowner and that goes for builders too. Until you get a professional involved either by hiring one or asking the lumberyard to ask the manufacturer of their LVL's to give you a design with a stamp on it, you are perpetuating a very serious structural mistake and someone could get hurt or you could have a major financial loss. If it snows the roof could collapse with no warning so put the post under the beam and go talk to your lumberyard or take a builder with you to the lumberyard. Don't do anything without an engineer's stamp on it....See MoreGarage floor and water from snow on car
Comments (5)You could install an interlocking tile floor that is made for garage use. I just ordered Daytona tile and you can order a mixture of tiles, some solid and some perforated. Most people put a strip of the perforated tiles just under where the tires go and put the solid tile everywhere else. Then the water can drain under the tile and evaporate. Also, heating the garage will help alot. Annette Here is a link that might be useful: where I bought my tile...See MoreWater leak at pipe /connector in the water meter box on my side
Comments (5)Old galvanized pipes have a finite lifespan. If you repair this leak, you have a good chance of it developing another leak in another location. The only good solution is a complete pipe replacement. The major expense of a pipe replacement will involve the digging of the trench from the meter to the house. This is an area where a DIYer can save some money. Have the utilities companies come out and mark the location of the pipe and any other utilities going to the home. Then you can choose a route parallel to the current pipe but just far enough away from it that you aren't disturbing it. You can rent a trencher (Maybe $200) and hand dig the larger access points at the meter and house. Then you can call a plumber to lay the pipe and make the connections. If you are not physically capable of doing this, then do you have any family or friends that would be? Church group? Scout troop? There are usually community resources that can help you to figure out what you can do here. The worst thing you can do is to ignore the leak....See MoreHow to prevent bathtub shower leaks
Comments (8)I use a shower curtain liner with suction cups on the ends and I make sure they are suction-attached to the tub wall tile in a way that makes the curtain follow the curve of the tub inward, so that the junction of the tub and the wall is firmly on the OUTSIDE of the shower when in use. Before I enter the tub, I will also hold the outside of my shower curtain under the spray of the shower, wetting it so that it is heavy and wet and will adhere to the wall of the bathtub once I get in and pull it into place. This also cuts down on the billowing of the shower curtain. I have a nylon fabric shower curtain. Just to be sure - you are keeping the shower curtain INSIDE the tub when you shower, right?...See Morecompiler
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