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Rain-Screen Walls: a Better Way to Install Siding
Spacing the siding away from the housewrap promotes ventilation and drainage for long-lasting siding and paint.
Shop vacs go big time
Over the past 25 years, I've installed a handful of central-vacuum cleaners. I think they are the best thing since indoor plumbing, and they're easy to install. Although I have…
Inspecting a House: Foundations, Structural Supports, and Decks
Learn to distinguish problems that are cosmetic from problems that are structural.
Taunton’s Home Storage Idea Book: Work-Space Storage
A proper work-space setup can help prevent the paraphernalia of work from invading the rest of your living space.
Making the American Dream Affordable
A Texas builder tackles affordable housing with recycled materials, job-site waste and minimum-wage crews.
Sink Clips as Clamping Devices
When a new customer referred by one of our local sawmills asked me to make some storm windows for her screened porch, I said sure. Then I went out to…
Joints in a built-up beam
Q: My brother and I have worked together building many houses. He insists that we can let the joints in the layers of a built-up center beam fall between the…
Picking a Portable Table Saw
Small enough to carry, big enough to rip green 2x12s, accurate enough for finish work.
What’s Hot in Bathroom Heaters?
There are lots of options for taking the chill off. Which one fits your house?
Finding the Right Refrigerator
Cold, hard facts about the biggest, most-used appliance in your kitchen.

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