Yes that's true. Technically it's surface tension. I figured it would just be simpler for others to understand if I said pressure break. And it doesn't change the point of having a gap.

My question as well.

I think the vent has to be 3 feet away from any opening (door/window). I'm sure it varies by state, though

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Yes, and in addition to creating a joint that is attached on only 2 sides and can flex properly, it will also solve OP's problem of too much sealant oozing out while drying.

By using less sealant, properly adhered with a backer rod, all of it will perform better.

15 feet between posts once middle is removed

The the wall is the next best.

Yup. A door is way cheaper than repairing siding and drywall.

The old fixture supplied the splice chamber. He just has to buy a new fixture that is meant to be surface mounted and has a splice chamber. Whatever the fuck is under that black tape needs to be ripped out and replaced.

Have you checked if this is up to code?, I have never heard of this. At least not in socal.

I feel like the risk of something getting into my garage is too high.

An intriguing idea... I have a room right above my garage, I'm not sure how much space I would have to run any hose.

I recently put down vinyl tile down on a cement floor using tile adhesive underneath. This was for a school we were renovating. A huge room. The old floor had tons of dip and bumps. After I was done, using a rubber mallet the whole way through, it looked awesome. Bumps and dips basically disappeared. I didn’t use a self leveler.

A contractor friend of ours who had seen it before couldn’t believe how good it looked and wondered how I did it, especially since this was the first time I done anything even remotely like this.

I think the adhesive really helped leveling it somewhat. I didn’t lay it on thick at all but it came out great.

So you may not need to use a self lever to get a good result.

I know how expensive it is to have someone replace siding on my house and it's too damn much

Yes. If you skip it and you do not have an excellent surface below you will absolutely regret that decision.

you're required to have 18" between a gas furnace and any combustible material. Whether or not the EV charger is considered combustible material, I don't know, but that's the only applicable code I can think of. Just from my gut of being involved with a lot of code stuff, I would say it would probably be frowned on to put it where you are thinking. Seems too close to the furnace.

edit: Just fyi, this is fire code, not electric code. You're probably also going to want to check IRC and IECC, depending on what state you're in.

If you’re in a cold climate it’s going to sweat, causing problems with the door and floor. It’s a bad idea. I’d go up through the ceiling and go out a soffit vent.

Treetop trekking places do this. Forget what they're called but the safety line clips into a sort of box with angled wheels that rides along the cable. The wheels are close enough so the cable doesn't slip through, but there is a gap at the top between the pairs of wheels so the brackets holding the cable can pass through. That's maybe a poor description, but it's like a U-shaped bracket with wheels at 45 degree angles at the top of rack side of the U.

Sorry, that wasn’t clear. I meant a drill that’s corded. One you plug into the wall. Not a cordless battery powered drill. The corded drills have more power / torque than battery powered drills.

But even as general rule of thumb you don't want to have potential fire hazard near gas pipes. I would avoid.

Pop in a 6 inch LED replacement unit. Made by Halo or Globe and the big box stores have them. All you have to do is cut the hole for it and wire the power in the provided circuit box.

Many light fixtures function as an electrical box, including under cabinet/sink lights. You can find a line voltage LED fixture, install a wire clamp and wire up the fixture inside the sealed portion of the fixture and be OK.

I thought that was only for floating floors that aren't attached to the subfloor.

When I try scraping though it digs into the wood. I'm worried I'm doing more harm than good

When I bought my house 26 years ago the previous owners had cut the female end off of a standard extension cord, spliced it to the ceiling fan, and then used thumb tacks to run the cord along a beam and down the wall to an outlet. (Yes, the thumb tacks went right through the cord, between the two wires....)

They make the light that has the battery and you can press on the light and it turn on