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Honestly, I don't recommend it as a marital setup. There definitely are moments where it is fun / useful but, on balance: 1) It can be...

Dude, we are so meeting up for beer / coffee. I can even provide ET references to attest to my being a decent person to spend an hour...

Yesir. Born in Trail (not on one). Grew up in Cranbrook. Now residing in Calgary, the Gotham City-esque metropolis to which my family...

I also say yes.

I took it to be an effort to align the point loads with the shelf supports, thereby setting the long-term service load factor to zero...

A sketch of the situation would be helpful. I can't see welding strengthening a column in any way that I'd want to rely upon. If...

In the context of a new build like this, I would never do a load test unless I was 99.5% sure of it passing. Here, I'm 99.999995% sure...

It's annoying how fragile our food supply is. Particularly the healthy stuff. Mrs. KootK is a US citizen. I'm banking on her being...

I had the same question and was mocked mercilessly for asking it. Isn't that a lot of shelving real-estate for 32 cans?? The shelves...

You should be fine with both options. Galvanizing is nowhere near as sensitive to localized removal as you are imagining. Zinc, even...

For my EOR estimates, I just use RISA etc and limit myself to #2 SPF for the chords. The #2 SPF tends to keep the designs from being...

You know me.... down with OOP. Out Of Plane. My apologies for the undefined acronym usage. I'm getting lazy in my dotage.

No, I'm not sure that I want it known that I was there. I just urinated on the side of the chimney to ward of other structural...

KootK - did you consider adding a plaque somewhere inside that attic? "KootK was here" :p