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206FIX » Blog Archive » Video – Toilet Repair – Fill Valve Replacement — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 04:50:45 +0000

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By: The Handyguys

The Handyguys — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:02:26 +0000

Thanks – kudos from a plumber means a lot.

By: Colchester Plumber

Colchester Plumber — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:32:58 +0000

Great video guys, I’m a plumber and have been for 20 years and I want to say what a job well done on all of the information you give to people. I’m sure a lot of people will find your information helpful.

By: The Handyguys

The Handyguys — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:31:35 +0000

Thanks!

By: Toilet Repair

Toilet Repair — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:21:37 +0000

Well, as a professional plumber from Toronto, I would say this article with video is very useful. I would recommend it to read to any homeowner.

By: The Handyguys

The Handyguys — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:44:51 +0000

Captain Kent.

If your garage is converted to living space you can extend your homes HVAC system if it has enough capacity. In you case the space will still be a garage and you cannot extend the system regardless of the capacity.

800 sq feet is a pretty large garage.

My garage is about 500 sq feet, I think, and is uninsulated. I heat the space with a kerosene heater when needed. The kero heater barely can do it. When its very cold I need to turn it on several hours before a project begins. When it is 20 degrees outside i can maintain about 50 degrees with the kero heater.

The hanging natural gas heater is a pretty good option if you can conveniently get gas to where you need it. Are you thinking ceiling mount or wall hanging? Some of the ceiling mount ones like designed for warehouse spaces can really put off a lot of heat. The inexpensive wall mount units may not have enough BTUs.

I know people who are woodworkers and will also have woodstoves. They can burn their scraps while heating the workshop. I know someone else who had a second furnace mounted on the ceiling just for heating the garage.

One popular garage heater is the hot dawg. Check it out here http://www.modine.com/v2portal/page/portal/modine/modineMarketsDefault/modine_com/markets/building_HVAC/market_level_3_content_013.htm

Thanks for listening
Handyguy Brian

By: Captain Kent

Captain Kent — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:30:19 +0000

Hi guys! I have a question for you. Last year I purchased a home built in the 80′s and I’m slowly morphing into this Handy-Guy-Do-It-Yourselfer-Inspector-Gadget kind of guy. When I bought my home the garage had a nasty stained floor. I decided to epoxy paint it after seeing an “easy-how-to” DIJ Home Depot video. Boy was that a mistake and I had no idea where that brain child would lead. Oh yeah, I’m a first time home owner.
While using a 3000 PSI washer to clean the floor I had layers of latex paint falling off the walls and revealing termite trails in the sheet rock. The previous owner had gone to great lengths to cover up and disguise lots of termite and water damage. Originally the windows had leaked and the water damage and wood rot led to the termites etc….you get the idea. Like you guys say, standing water is your number one enemy!
After many quotes I found out that replacing my two windows in the garage with single-pane cheap fiberglass windows would cost just as much as highly insulated double-pane windows. Even though the fiberglass would be done by fly-by-night contractors and the insulated windows would be done by reputable name brand companies. You know how it went from here right, if I’m going to put double-pane gas charged windows in the garage, I might as well insulate the rest of the garage, right!?
I figure my garage being 800 square feet that I can utilize this space in the cold months to do projects out there. In any case, I ripped all the sheet rock off the walls and am about 60% deep in the project of fully insulating the garage. I’m installing Champion windows, a new back door from Lowes, and even insulating the inside of the 20 foot main garage door with a neat Owens Corning garage door insulation kit. I’m doing everything myself accept the walk out door and windows…so far anyway.
I’m a pilot by day and a Handy Guy Podcast Warrior by night. A fellow pilot I fly with lives in Minneapolis and is doing a similar project, I live in Wichita, KS, and we are both based out of O’hare airport. We battle our garages on our days off and then compare notes at 41,000 feet. We were talking the other day about how to heat our garages once were done. We came up with lots of ideas, including radiator heat in my garage fed by my existing 266,000 BTU/HR pool heater. Unfortunately my pool pump room is in the garage which contributed to much of the water damage. I have many unknown challenges ahead such as sealing and venting this pool pump room properly in order to prevent future water and mold damage. In any case I digress as we were talking about heat.
We decided we are probably both going to go with a hanging natural gas type heater but here comes our question. We thought about just breaking through the wall and piping one of our main house heater ducts into the garage for heat. When the garages are all insulated and sealed up it shouldn’t take a lot of heat to keep them warm, or warm enough to work out there. We were not familiar with any homes that have done this before and figured there must be a good reason for us NOT to do this. We decided to ask you guys if you know of any reason why we would NOT want to simply tap off and route one of our main house ducts into our garages for heat?

Thanks Brian and Paul, keep the podcast coming! I’d be in the poor house if I had to hire somebody to do all the jobs this house needs!

Captain Kent

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By: The Handyguys

The Handyguys — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:31:23 +0000

Thanks Steve! Yeah, that’s us. We may have more videos, yes. You can see them in HiDef if you visit youtube directly too. We want the quality to be as good as the audio podcast. We haven’t pushed them out in the feed to be viewed in iTunes and stuff. Would this be something you would be interested in or is youtube or vimeo okay?

Thanks Again and Happy New Year to you too.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:04:31 +0000

Good to see the faces behind the voices!
Good video. Is this a sign of things to come? More videos?
I hope so.
Happy New Year!

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