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I do think paying attention and making improvements to ones workflow is worth the effort.

Also, things just change over time. I'm just starting a minor re-arrangement of my shop (which is my...

This will vary state by state. For some locations (even within a state it can vary), you may end up waiting 2 hours in line to take care of this, in addition to your travel time to/from the...

Permit requirements vary location to location. But a lot of people do minor stuff that technically require permits, but almost no one ever files a permit for it unless it is part of some larger...

Even for in stock items, at $90K, I think I'd want to see it in person and not just go on photos on a website. So I could see that adding photos on the website may not add a lot of value for the...

Extended warranties are something of a gamble. Some people will come out ahead by buying one (an expensive repair covered by it which would otherwise be an out of pocket expense), most people will...

Given those prices, I wonder if each piece is custom built, so the customer can specific the wood, finish, and other details.

I know that offshoring of the production is what has resulted in a lot of lumbermills on the west coast shutting down. Instead of the material being milled here and then shipped out, raw logs were...

Several years ago I refreshed my mulch, and rather than pay money for it, I used getchipdrop. I think I estimated that it was close to 30 yards - the somewhat annoying thing is that since it comes...

When I bought a bunch of baltic birch ~4 years ago, it was in 4x8 sheets and from Russia (Cyrillic writing on it)

More recently I've bought some, also in 4x8 sheets (different supplier), but it is...

Most of my yard has a thick layer of mulch, which I'll hand weed. The mulch keeps most of the weeds down, but for those that do sprout up, they are not rooted in the dirt so easy to pull up (dirt...

My general philosophy is to get rewards cards where I will maximize the rewards for purchases I need to do, and not need to try to remember what card to use.

If you look at your visa bill and see...

Wonder if a heating pad would be a reasonable way to heat it also. I often use one to warm my bread dough so that it rises faster.

My one thought is to mix some of the epoxy up per proper ratios with no tint or other additives. See if it sets up properly - if not, you know your epoxy has gone off in some way (not sure what...

I'm having an issue with ants myself. I think one cause is with the wet weather, the ants are looking for someplace dry, and the house qualifies. I also suspect that with it being winter (only now...

Not sure if this is paywalled (https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/23/woodshop-has-been-disappearing-from-california-schools-for-decades-heres-why-one-bay-area-teacher-is-bringing-it-back/) but seems...

Never made paper pots, but I remember buying some cheap paper pots from Amazon and they sucked - basically turned to mush when wet.

I start my seedlings in 1.25" square peat pots. Once I know...

I'd be less concerned about a finished basement than if they added a room off the back. In the case of the basement, unless they did something stupid like remove supporting posts, there should not...

At least where I live, the houses are required to have 2 covered parking spots, which in most cases is covered by the garage (no requirement that people park their cars in the garage, just that the...

While being paid for a year makes that non compete not as painful financially, it does mean that his career is not advancing in the next year, which could have long term consequences for compensation...

As others said, a lot really depends on getting a reliable source for logs. There may be trees getting chopped down all the time, but they might not be ones that you want if you are looking for...

The biggest issue with having a bench in front of an electrical panel to me would be still having good access to that panel when you need it. If a breaker trips and you (or your wife) need to flip...

One other advantage of laser printers is that the printouts don't smear when wet - this usually isn't a problem, but back when I had an inkjet, if that printout got wet, the ink (water soluable)...

11/32 is fairly close to 9 mm (8.73mm), so that might also work.

I went with laser after having ink drying problems, and my current printer is a MFD (multi function device) - copier, scanner, printer, which can also output double sided pages without me needing to...

The lumber industry seems a bit odd in its pricing. I can certainly understand why online stores are generally going to charge more - people would probably be unhappy if they were looking at prices...